It was put in place in 1959, not because of scientific findings but because the then-chairman of American Airlines wanted to force out senior--and therefore expensive--pilots when American converted to jet aircraft.
With few options left untried, 35-year-old general manager Alex Anthopoulos seems to have taken to an approach best described this way: look for players who are talented, and therefore expensive, but with potential downside risks the keep them from being too expensive.
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Other commodities like gold, silver, copper, nickel, all are in high demand, and therefore really expensive.
The result will be insurance pools that are smaller and sicker, and therefore more expensive.
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They say it's too early to tell whether these higher minimums will require more expensive technology and, therefore, more expensive SUVs and trucks.
Houses within that area would be much sought after and therefore become more expensive.
Such a rule would, for example, have made it very hard for RBS and its ilk to become quite so huge - and therefore quite so expensive to bail out for taxpayers.
Dr Reid would therefore have a less expensive phone-bill but an even tougher decision.
Lending small amounts of money for short periods of time is expensive and therefore so is borrowing such.
It is inherently modular and therefore easier and less expensive to customize to the way each child learns.
Drastic short-term change could be hugely expensive and therefore politically unsustainable in the absence of a strong scientific consensus about its urgency.
Labor is another of the elements that increases the cost and I imagine that varies from state to state for instance in California and New Jersey the bulk of the labor is union and therefore it is more expensive than Arizona or other places so there is variability in the cost.
Needless to say, drilling in such places is difficult and expensive, and therefore risky.
The meatballs were added to the gravy and served with special pasta such as cavatelli, a small, hand-rolled shell pasta that was more expensive than spaghetti or penne and therefore reserved for special meals.
On the flipside, the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays have less than 50% of 2009 revenue locked up in player contracts through 2011 and therefore have lots of room to sign some expensive talent.
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Then you might find that a drug works for some people but is more expensive than the next best treatment and therefore, hard to justify.
Also, higher-income households are in higher tax brackets and therefore benefit more from deductibility, and people in more expensive homes have larger payments to deduct.
Therefore, less than 10% is explained by all these expensive sub-classes.
Therefore borrowing small amounts of money for short periods of time is an expensive thing to do.
Bring substantially more money into the Medicare pool via the premium payments ponied up by all the additional people in the system who are younger, healthier and, therefore, far less likely to call upon the system to pay for expensive illnesses.
Dr Zuma wants to promote generic instead of more expensive brand-named pills whose patent has expired and which can therefore be made locally.
Therefore, a risk to bulls is that hedged players find put premiums too expensive, and thus sharply reduce their equity accumulation due to the expensive portfolio insurance.
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