In theory, global trade should cause prices in different countries to converge: the prices of low-cost producers should gradually increase as wages rise (ie, China's falling prices were a temporary anomaly), while the prices of high-cost producers should fall.
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By 2020, solar should cost-competitive with other energy sources in 47 states.
The complementary nature of these transactions should lead to cost-saving synergies once they are fully integrated.
With human cloning technology just around the corner and enough frozen sperm in the world to already populate many generations, perhaps we should perform a cost-benefit analysis.
These considerations should limit scheduled low-cost airlines to a successful niche strategy, mainly on routes to and from the United Kingdom and possibly to and from a few other Northern European countries.
After a lunch with his pick for the Senate seat, Kirsten Gillibrand, Paterson told reporters that the United States should help make low-cost loans available to other countries, to get the global economy back on track.
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In fact, said Perkins, smart entrepreneurs should arrange early, low-cost tests of their ideas to make sure they are on the right track.
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Finally, the asset class should be investible with low-cost index funds and ETFs, or a least a near-index type, broadly diversified actively managed fund.
Should it be a fixed-cost deal (where all unexpected savings go to the outsourcer) or a joint venture, giving each partner a stake in success?
Even in Germany, which is Europe's biggest aviation market but where the phenomenon has been slow to catch on, the low-cost airlines should capture about 25% of passengers.
Birns says that as Africa's cities get more populated and as demand for business is growing, the expansion of the low-cost model should revolutionize the continent's air transport in the same way that it did in North America, Europe and now in Asia.
Well-off Americans should be able to deduct the cost of the same quality health plan that middle-income families can deduct.
Although Fendrick says there is some debate over that number--scientists have been using the same number for many years--it is hard to argue that it should be so high that aspirin would be cost-effective.
Pressure from consumers, in theory, should make health practitioners more cost-conscious too.
In a statement, BP said its cost-cutting should be seen in the context of the sharp fall in oil prices in 2008, which squeezed all oil companies' profits.
Low-cost line sharing should encourage more aggressive DSL deployment because it is a dramatic improvement in the business case for DSL CLECs, says Strategis Group, a networking analysis firm in Washington, D.
Solid majorities of independents favor reining in the size of big banks and the speculative incentives that led to the need for bailouts, as well as making sure the banks -- and not the public -- pay the cost should there be another collapse.
David O'Connor, Association of Scottish Police Superintendents president, said similar cost-saving measures should be considered for councils, health boards and sheriffdoms.
"Our philosophy at textPlus that anyone should have access to free and low-cost mobile communications aligns perfectly with FreedomPop's free mobile data offering, " said Scott Lahman, Founder and CEO of textPlus.
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Of special note, you should avoid at all cost the back-dating of option grants to enable employees to take advantage of lower prices that prevailed before a recent appreciation in company value.
Despite the negative nature of McNulty's report, long term he said he thingsthe company should continue to benefit from its cost-cutting programs, as well as efforts to remove debt from is balance sheet and consolidation in the water treatment industry.
Mr. Lonegan counters that every working New Jersey resident should pay something -- on the principle that everyone should bear at least some of the cost of government.
The company said it should not be affected by expected council cost-cutting across Scotland.
Then, Fendrick argues, patients should be made to pay more as cost-effectiveness decreases.
How should assets be measured--by their historical cost, as they are presently?
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The combined bank should therefore cover its 8% short-term cost of capital.
Properly measured, the penalty attached to Barclays' investment-banking strategy should also include the opportunity cost of failing to invest its capital in more profitable businesses, such as retail banking.
And as for the ethics of physicians going along with this idea: given the prices of new drugs, doctors should be factoring in cost as another side-effect of their prescribing.
For one thing, there's disagreement over how much it should cost for the Capitol Power Plant--which provides heating and cooling power to Congress--to use cleaner-burning natural gas instead of coal power.
They cannot agree on who should bear the cost of today's crisis: should it be creditors (through a write-down), debtors (through austerity) or the Germans (through transfers to the south)?
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