On Wednesday, thousands of public employees in Greece held a strike to protest cost-cutting measures.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

Julie says we can't put a number on human life for the purpose of a cost-benefit analysis.

朱莉认为，我们不该为了成本效益分析,给人的生命标价。

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So, these are some of the controversies that arise these days from cost-benefit analysis, especially those that involve placing a dollar value on everything to be added up.

以上即为近来对成本效益分析,引发的一些争论，尤其是其中那些,认为可以用金钱衡量一切的观点。

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He was not kidding. The most significant detail is the cost of his plan and its impact on our long-term budget deficit,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

That is to say, it was some kind of a big religious thing going on here, where the king-- it was obviously a royal thing because the cost of it was so enormous; nobody else could afford a tomb of that kind.

也就是说,蜂窝墓与庞大的宗教行为有关,很显然与皇室相关,这是国王所埋葬的地方,因为建造它耗资巨大,没有其他人能建造的起这种墓穴

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Beyond the hiring of its own employees, Buchanan Renewable's generation of lower-cost electricity should lead to further job growth as small businesses will spend less on utilities.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

And you remember, we considered some examples of cost-benefit analysis, but a lot of people were unhappy with cost-benefit analysis when it came to placing dollar value on human life.

我们还思考了些成本效益分析的例子，但许多人并不赞同,成本效益分析用金钱来衡量人的生命。

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But technology expert Rob Atkinson says smartphones will most likely not be widely used in many developing nations because of their cost, and the cost of connected on-line data plans.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

"So what you get may be cost, but what you give up may be the on-going relationship, the communication, the follow-up care, and things,traditionally, American patients have held very dear."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"And so he then went back and worked on technology adaptation and designed very low-cost, small affordable solar panels with fitted bulbs, maybe one or two bulbs per household, made sure that the bulbs could be moved from room to room, depending where people wanted the light,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18