Banks have to work out the cost of the damage done by years of easy credit and gorging on complicated financial products (see article).
One way of doing that is to work out the cost of disposal and charge firms and households for rubbish collection based on the volume they produce.
In the air, planes will actually be nearer to the orbiting device, rather than farther away, and assuming a line-of-sight link from the road, the truck can work out kinks at a fraction of the cost.
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Moleketi said the government would work out how to finance the shortfall after a detailed cost calculation next month.
Also joining this band of worthwhile purchases are newcomers such as digital radios and shredders, where the cost and usage work out to the advantage of the buyer.
But you can see by my example above that a 50% cut in my pay would only work out to a 0.9% cut in the cost.
"Doctors are perfectly prepared to sit down and work with others and work out what is going to be the best way of delivering cost-effective care for the population, " he said.
So shutting down and throwing folks out of work is the only option left, all while the cost of doing business keeps rising, they say.
The government is conducting a paper trial to work out how much it would cost to provide areas with slow broadband with faster services and will run pilots in three areas when the cheapest options emerge.
Mr Blair's critics have pointed out that moving people off welfare and into work is likely to cost more in the short term.
"The industry says in June that it's market forces and we're going to work out what your risk is and the potential consequences of that is a doubling of the cost of insurance".
Instead of trying to figure out how to pay for the cost of care, we try to work on the other half of the equation: How to innovate to reduce costs and improve the quality and accessibility of care.
Workfare was ruled out, however, on the grounds that it would cost far too much to offer work to all the long-term jobless.
While common sense says that those who spend work hours popping out to the store for a new pair of shoes or surfing the Web for personal use probably cost employers something in lost productivity, there's no definitive proof that employee "downtime" is any more prevalent than it was a generation ago, when telephone and watercooler banter was in.
So in the short run, it may actually cost taxpayers more to help someone into work than to support him out of it.
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