This point has been noted repeatedly by the Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency, and explains why items like aircraft modifications, pilot training and information systems are captured in the F-35 cost estimates but not in the support-cost estimates for previous planes.
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All told, government adjustments unrelated to contractor performance have more than doubled F-35 support-cost estimates since the program began.
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Edison conceivably could add scrubbers to the plants, but at a puny 155 megawatts each they are too small to support the cost.
As a rule of thumb, a functioning insurance model requires 80 percent of the pool to be healthy to support the cost of the 20 percent who get sick.
And given Congress's history of fiscal irresponsibility, it is surely right to be sceptical about any strategy that expands entitlements today in the hope of forcing a fiscal crisis to win support for cost cuts tomorrow.
He readily acknowledges his position on Iraq cost him support among Independents and his position on immigration cost him with Republicans.
The Postal Service, however, says there is broad support for the cost-saving move.
What does it cost to support a guy who loses his limbs for life?
But some native leaders have warned the demonstrators that the disruption could cost them support from non-native Canadians.
Germany needs to decide for itself what it wants pay: the cost of support or the costs of exit.
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Many seniors didn't buy it, and the group has said that its support for the law cost it about 300, 000 members.
The reality is that U.S. companies have grown too accustomed or dependent on the high-quality, low-cost technology support that these visas enable.
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The four Republican authors of the immigration bill have said that such a provision could cost their support and imperil the bill's chances.
Meanwhile, a separate dispute loomed as religious leaders warned that adding a gay rights provision to the immigration legislation could cost their support.
The future is looking good but without the support of low-cost Russian science, and its Russian connections, would Samsung have progressed to the forward edge so quickly?
Such support translates into a cost-effective way to help preserve an aerospace industrial base at a time when it is reeling, and contracting, due to dangerously reduced defense budgets.
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It was he who coined the procurement mantra FIST (Fast, Inexpensive, Simple and Tiny) to "describe a particular pattern of decision making in procurement that aims to support rapid, low cost innovation".
These applications can support the much higher cost of the initial products using this technology but the costs will likely go down with time allowing wider spread use of such high performance memory.
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We also provide hands-on professional services and dedicated customer support for no extra cost as part of the premium offering for mid to large companies that need help with structured roll-outs, implementing best practices, integration, training, management and measurement, etc.
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American sugar producers argue, with complete aplomb, that the price-support program operates at no cost to taxpayers.
It has a low cost base and support from British Airways in key areas such as sales and marketing.
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The battle has cost the Republicans support among two large groups of voters they badly need: Latinos and working women.
Now it demands that central banks support exchange rates at any cost.
CAP's cost by bringing support prices closer to (lower) world levels, eliminating most food surpluses and making up the difference with direct income support to farmers.
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For platform suppliers, AMD is looking to Sledgehammer to minimize the impact on motherboard design and decrease the cost of technical support required for both a 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
As a result, the profits needed to justify these acquisitions and the ongoing tie-up of capital needed to support them must come from cost-takeouts, from the squeezing of the Medicaid turnip.
Being part of a moderate government has cost the party support: its backing peaked at 27% in 1999 but was down to no more than 9% by the start of this year.
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And he noted that it was the rising cost of student support in the recession that was causing much of the funding squeeze - making the ongoing Browne review of student finance all the more important.
At the same time, a socially desirable earlier change to the pension system has meant that millions of poor retired farm workers have begun to receive income-support payments, at a cost this year of about 10 billion reais.
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