There is a lot of debate about the right discount rate to use, but the conservative approach is to take the cost of government borrowing.
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Experts fear the result will be a temporary shortage of airline pilots, which might force airlines to take on the cost of pilot training.
Trevor Osbourne, who developed Oxford prison, said any developer of the Gloucester jail would need to take into account the cost of excavating any remains.
Instead, it is using an inflation index it has developed, called the Higher Education Cost Adjustment, which is designed to take into account the cost of the goods and services purchased by colleges and universities, and which is consistently higher than CPI.
In an economy closed to flows of trade and finance, the cost will take the form of lower incomes.
Speaking in the Commons on 9 February 2012, Energy Minister Gregory Barker confirmed a move to halve the payments for panels installed from March, and said further reductions to the subsidy would take place as the cost of installing solar panels falls.
However, the tax laws and the recent economic stimulus address household income on a national level and do not take into account the cost of living by state, as far as I know.
Medicare should take into account the cost of treatments when determining coverage.
So, actually, when you take into account the cost of living, the Asian-American poverty rate is about two and a half percentage points higher than the official rate.
The ROH had warned that if it did not take steps to curtail the cost of its pension scheme, then its own contribution rate might have to rise from 15% of salaries to 26%, which it said it could not afford.
It thinks the government should take on some of the burden of cost over-runs.
Insurance companies would compete on benefits and price and, importantly, take on the burden of cost containment.
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The larger Walgreen could also eventually take advantage of the lower-cost environment to make and develop private-label products in emerging markets for both its pharmacy and its health and beauty businesses .
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Though Google will likely take a bath on the cost of each individual album just as Amazon did with its Lady Gaga promotion, the value lies in bringing in new Google Music users.
In the interest of transparency, the government should require that its regulatory agencies make a genuine effort to estimate and take into account the true economic cost of the thousands of jobs that can be lost from a single regulatory change.
So, if Congress wishes to outlaw medical malpractice as a way of lowering the cost of healthcare, they are going to take a lot of heat as the real numbers become available to the public and we all discover that completely doing away with medical malpractice suits would, at best, have a negligible impact on our problem.
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The majority of these cost cuts would only begin to take effect from the latter half of fiscal 2012.
The fees are particularly essential for credit unions: far smaller than banks, they cannot take advantage of economies of scale to reduce the cost of servicing their customers.
The calculations did not take into account the cost-effectiveness or feasibility of the trading ideas.
At the moment, universities can recruit an unlimited number of students who have achieved A-level grades equivalent to ABB or higher, but the number of lower achieving students they can take is capped to limit the cost to the state in the form of student loans.
Airlines have little financial incentive to take into account the cost to passengers of, say, delays.
The problem has been that House Speaker John A. Boehner has been stonewalling the establishment of such a committee, using the lame excuse that it will cost money and take a lot of time.
They are also freer from the numerous "status competitions" (the social pressure to drive a fancy car, wear designer clothes, enroll the children in private schools and take European vacations) that further drive up the cost of living in big cities and suburbs.
The six states with the highest current per-gallon charges--California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Michigan and Indiana--all levy taxes based on a percentage of the price of gasoline, meaning when the cost of gas goes up, the state's tax take per gallon goes up too.
It was this last mistake that prompted Egypt's democrats in the past week to take again to the streets across the country at a cost of 40-odd dead and more than 1, 000 injured.
But, with local authorities everywhere facing the challenge of making across-the-board cuts to services, will the cost of the Tour prove too hard to take for Yorkshire's cash-strapped council tax payers?
The second point on which economists take issue with Lord Stern is his estimate of the cost of mitigating climate change.
"Operating towards the value end of the market should have placed the retailer in a strong position to take advantage of the consumer trend towards low-cost fashion, " said Anusha Couttigane, from retail consultancy Conlumino.
CIOs and CTOs must take a closer look at the true cost of Big Data.
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