The cost of extraction would be higher than the value of the copper to us.
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That means that all wages and salaries were more than the value of all U.S. stocks.
The sovereign wealth fund is now 40% bigger than the value of the entire Norwegian economy.
Firms cannot pay a worker more than the value the worker brings to the firm.
Less than a tenth of households own shares worth more than the value of their home.
For the cost of getting them out is higher than the value of what you get out.
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Only 14.3% said the premium was greater than the value of other reductions in their schools' budgets.
The cash bid values each Racal share at 450 pence, 4.7% higher than the value of Racal shares on Wednesday.
Driving to the local bank branch might cost more in the use of gasoline than the value of the check.
No, not cheap in the conventional sense of selling for less than the value of their assets or cash on the books.
But enough people in the US do such that the value to the consumer is greater than the value of the inputs.
Cash4Gold seems to have gone under because the collection costs of the materials were higher than the value of recycling those materials.
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Did grown men weep on discovering that a squirrel had noshed on a tulip bulb worth more than the value of their house?
Homeowners must be behind on their mortgage payments or the remaining mortgage balance must be significantly higher than the value of the house.
Cash4Gold evidently thought that TV advertising, mail order and the internet would allow them to collect materials at less than the value created.
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That the air pollution produced by creating a number of things costs more than the value of what is produced to make the pollution.
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This is particularly true where the benefit conferred upon the executive director in terms of salary is greater than the value of the services provided.
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When governments pass laws mandating wages that are greater than the value of what Helen Housekeeper can produce, it is no longer advantageous to employ Helen.
Health costs would probably rise more quickly than the value of the voucher, so the elderly would have to pay cash for more of their care.
Housing prices continue to fall, leaving many with mortgages greater than the value of their homes, and banks continue to suffer major credit losses as a result.
Small business owners know they must pass these costs on, since workers cannot be paid more than the value they add to the business (or the business fails).
In some places, says Phil Rothwell of the Environment Agency (which manages the defences), the walls cost more to maintain than the value of the land they protect.
At Cornerstone, investors are receiving "distribution yields" of roughly 22% of net asset value, and the shares trade for much more than the value of their underlying assets.
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Interestingly, Foreign corps would not be subject to this law and could immediately arbitrage by purchasing US based multinationals for 40% less than the value if held by a foreign corp.
Of the 1, 329 homeowners within that sample, 48% admitted that they would consider walking away from their properties if their mortgages were worth more than the value of the property.
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Filer (1984) comes to an identical conclusion: the DDS reallocates property rights: thus, the value of a work of art without full property rights is less than the value with full rights.
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But, with perhaps one in ten American homeowners saddled with mortgages that were bigger than the value of their property, it soon became clear that housing was the main thing holding back the economy.
Complicated application processes and eligibility requirements, costly appraisals, and the fact that many homeowners owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home make refinancing all but impossible for millions of Americans.
As it happens, most of the variation in the price of oil over the past 40 years has reflected changes in the value of the dollar (the denominator) rather than the value of oil (the numerator).
One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.
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