"Chinese companies aren't that expensive, and that hasn't always been the case, " Mr. Shen says.
We need to ensure that expensive drugs are available at affordable rates to the poor.
On the other, businessmen say that expensive state-run services such as electricity and telecoms undermine their competitiveness.
Then you make an undocumented statement that expensive rules do not tend to apply to small business operators.
Now, Idacorp has given up on that expensive proposition and has decided to focus on its core regions.
The government thinks that expensive bandwidth is a price worth paying in order to pursue all these worthy goals.
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They assumed a continuing high price for silicon and thus their technology concentrated on making that expensive material more productive.
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It would be an admission that all those expensive computers, expensive non-nuclear testing machines, and all that expensive brainpower fell short.
Marketing that expensive technology as a replacement for business travel has helped it to grow quickly if only in a few companies.
Other studies have shown that expensive spinal fusion surgery, when done for degenerated discs, may be no better than a good rehab program.
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For homeowners refinancing is pretty straightforward and not that expensive.
Local schemes, particularly ocean fertilisation, need not be that expensive.
Gone are the days when shop assistants might hover over a customer's shoulder to check that expensive volumes were not just being read and then put back on the shelf.
"We have just started the commercial aspect of this product but the price is not that expensive when you compare it with the long term solution that it gives, " he adds.
By the time a drug reaches the market, the entrepreneur behind it has given most of the value away to venture capitalists and managers in order to get all that expensive research funded.
Medtronic has long had to wrangle with Medicare, America's government-sponsored health insurance, to get it to cover the use of new devices, and to persuade short-term-oriented managed-care companies that expensive devices can yield long-term savings.
Now, all the research we have shows that this is improving and British people now coming to Ireland are going back and saying that Ireland isn't that expensive after all, hotels and accommodation in particular are very good value.
The aircraft procured for the Marine MLR will be inadequate for the joint services missions the V-22 was designed to perform, thereby ensuring that expensive new development and acquisition programs will have to be undertaken to meet these other requirements.
There's just an assumption that these benefits are positive, that the big time is worth it, that expensive coaches and conference expansion and mega TV contracts all serve a greater good networks and fans love it, and it's foolish to not want a piece.
In one of the best-controlled studies, CpsC researchers in 1978 found that an expensive program that included handing out safety brochures to individual consumers had no effect on lawn mower injuries.
Hospitals that treat patients that are less expensive over the three or four month arc of their care would be paid up to 3% more by Medicare while hospitals that treat more expensive patients would be paid 3% less.
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It can also be an education that an expensive brand has a generic counterpart that works just as well.
"A book doesn't have to be expensive to be appealing, and a lot of books that are expensive are not appealing, " he said.
Energy is going to get more expensive but everyone is really going to be paying less money in total for that more expensive energy?
Nearly every industry at its outset produces goods and services that are so complicated and expensive that only rich people can afford them.
The chief barrier to private-enterprise spaceflight, it has often been argued, is that space is so inherently expensive that only governments can afford it.
It wasn't until the 1960s that televising sports became so expensive that multiple sponsors were needed to underwrite the cost--and the need for ever more commercial breaks during games.
This is with Virgin, the same company that operates expensive singles to Glasgow and Manchester.
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