Sacconaghi took a deep look into the question, and finds that Apple may have a 750-975 point cost advantage over its rivals in the tablet space.
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At what point does the cost of the treatment simply outweigh the benefits?
S's big selling-point remains the cost-cutting reputation of its chief executive, Peter Burt.
The main problem with continuing to add NAS boxes is that at a certain point, the cost and management problems just become too great.
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Being able to fly point-to-point for the cost of a business-class ticket holds enormous appeal--especially in regions such as the Southeast that are booming with population growth and new businesses.
For I would expect the cost of providing it to continue to fall: to the point that it would cost more to keep it out of a design than to simply leave it be and include it.
But, Nul said, the cost of this intervention is lower than the cost of patients being hospitalized, a significant point because much of the cost associated with congestive heart failure stems from patients needing to be hospitalized after they suffer setbacks.
To underscore his point on the lowered cost of doing business, he asked the crowd who was excited about the future of manufacturing.
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Opponents point to the enormous cost of building a nuclear power plant and question whether the industry is economically viable without taxpayers footing much of the bill.
Of course insurers would point out that the cost of a policy reflects how much it costs to see a doctor, buy a prescription or spend time in the hospital.
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While 3C hasn't gotten to the point of discussing the cost of putting a global carbon market in place, none of its members would have a stake in the game if they didn't see big profits to be made in going green.
As a more general point, this lack of cost consciousness plagues advancements in healthcare.
Swartz aimed to make the point that disseminating the information cost nothing, which he did by doing so.
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"Merrill significantly overpaid and has eaten the cost at this point, " says Richard Bove, who covers financial firms for Hoefer Arnett.
While it is true that virtualization may be creating a situation where there is now a single point of failure, the cost benefits of virtualizing servers are well documented.
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By law, CMS is prohibited from doing cost-effectiveness analysis, but as The Legal Pulse has previously noted, the ethic of factoring cost into coverage decisions permeates the agency to the point where its employees have conducted their own, independent research on the cost of certain drugs.
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The point is that there are genuine cost-drivers that are not caused by insurance companies.
"At this point we are willing to sacrifice cost for brand-name recognition and market share, " Kan says.
For we've reached the point where doing nothing about the cost of health care is no longer an option.
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Southwest Airlines, JetBlue Airlines and other low cost airlines use a point-to-point system, which allows for more direct flights.
But in a struggling economy that equilibrium point, beyond which an increased cost of hiring unquestionably kills jobs, is always lower.
Detroit's car companies point, correctly, to the cost cuts, labor concessions and other stringent measures that they've enacted in recent years.
But in America's regulation wars, there will always be lots of people who point out that caution can also cost lives.
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The process of accepting credit or debit cards as payment is quite complex, although retailers point out that they absorb this cost in their sale price.
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Mr. Bernanke cited Congressional Budget Office estimates that the cuts would reduce economic growth by 0.6 percentage point this year, which would cost the economy 750, 000 jobs this year.
It only makes sense to perform a classic, textbook analysis of the publically available information if you are an analyst who controls enough money that a tenth of a percentage point in stock price equals the cost of the time that you spend doing the analysis.
Shortly after we caught wind of Android "consideration" within Samsung's camera division, a report surfaced that implied a change in course for the Galaxy giant -- the Korean company was ramping up mirrorless camera production at the cost of scaling back point-and-shoots, and the move appeared to represent a general shift away from compacts with a heavier focus on improving optics in smartphones.
Answer: It lowers the cost of information to the point where markets spontaneously grow.
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