In past bailouts, including the Resolution Trust Corp. formed in 1989 to help resolve the savings-and-loan crisis, the ultimate taxpayer cost was magnitudes larger than originally projected.
The device's robust functionality, which includes Internet access and a customizable app interface, also makes it the ultimate low-cost alternative to a work laptop.
Best's last wife Alex Best does not appear in the show and - although his alcoholism is portrayed - the true extent of his boozing and its huge physical cost and ultimate price is not detailed here.
It has spawned several low-cost imitators and the ultimate brand compliment--counterfeit Bubble Wrap, made in China and found on sale at a Home Depot in Southern California.
It has spawned several low-cost imitators and the ultimate brand compliment--counterfeit Bubble Wrap, made in China and found on sale at a Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ) in Southern California.
This, of course, still understates the ultimate economic burden of education, its "opportunity cost"--the output that could otherwise be generated by those in school.
In short, the invisible hand of globalization will work to ensure a redistribution of cost advantages to the benefit of the ultimate consumers around the world.
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Assuming the NYSE's merger with Archipelago does go ahead, the ultimate test of its success will be whether it lowers the cost of trading.
The City has identified 15 innovation zones in key commercial and industrial corridors, and will work with the private sector to leverage the existing infrastructure and assets to ensure low-cost broadband is available in these zones with the ultimate goal of extension to all businesses in the City.
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This is a major cost and major appeal of tour operators, who deliver ultimate convenience.
The ultimate promise of reusable craft like SpaceShipOne is a vastly reduced launch cost, greater ease of preparing a flight and the prospect of opening space for tourism.
The ultimate goal is to empower blind consumers to create their own low-cost and potentially life-saving tools -- particularly in developing countries, which account for an estimated 90 percent of the world's blind population.
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Savvy investors would be wise to try to determine the potential cost savings associated with those acquisitions, as well as the ultimate price impact on both the shares of the suitor and the company to be acquired.
The ultimate test of the merger's success will be whether it lowers the cost of trading.
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The consulting business probably won't be making much money, and could run at a deficit, but the ultimate promise of getting more customers to use Sprint mobile networks is likely worth the cost.
But the ultimate plan for payroll taxes is to phase them out entirely in favor of lower cost personal accounts to finance the benefits currently financed by those taxes, as discussed in previous columns in this space.
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Why spend millions of dollars on the high-cost of production, when your own fans may hold the key to the ultimate music video?
The ultimate goal is a global program to facilitate, coordinate and ramp up the efficient, cost effective ocean and atmospheric information collection by a growing number and range of vessels and platforms.
"For mainstream storage applications, there is no product better suited in the industry than our Agility 4 SSDs, providing the ultimate in access speed, application performance, endurance and reliability, at price points that most cost-conscious users will find appealing, " said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology.
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But concerns exist over the cost of those conversions and from where the wood would come, not to mention the ultimate impact on emissions.
Greenberg maintains through his lawyers that the ultimate test is to taste the wine itself, a luxury that also can devalue bottles that can cost thousands of dollars.
"Like a lot of people, I thought that an NFL franchise was the ultimate indulgence for men who had made enough money in other pursuits not to care how much it cost, " says Fisher.
The ultimate triumph of the principles of free-market capitalism, however, is not going to come without serious cost.
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