If there's downward pressure on costs, because of a need for investment in other areas, I would argue that this is a perfectly feasible solution.

如果因为其他领域的投资需求而使成本面临下行压力，我会认为这是一个完美可行的解决方案。

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It took many years of very low wage growth and rising productivity before Germany regained its edge on costs.

经过许多年工资极为缓慢的增长加上生产率提高，德国才重新在成本上获得优势。

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Deciding which to go for partly depends on costs, such as transaction fees, and market liquidity.

至于做出怎样的选择取决于成本，如交易费和市场流动性。

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And scientists are reporting this week on what they call the "indirect costs" of a virus-resistance gene in Cucurbita.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Economists blamed the crisis on different causes, including high energy costs, bad weather and the use of food-crop lands for biofuel production.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

They spend less than twenty-five percent on fund raising and administrative costs.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

As the newspaper coverage of this report shows, people tend to focus not on the good news - the costs that are capped - but on the bad - the costs below the cap or so-called "hotel costs" which are not covered by the cap.

BBC: Dilnot report: Where's the money?

Because of the way our health care system works today -- with emphasis on restricting immediate costs -- this cardiac center, despite Norwood's brilliant successes, could never happen without the Nemours Foundation.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Today's paper says, "even when US forces are committed to a large-scale operation in one region, they will be capable of denying the objectives of - or imposing unacceptable costs on - an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".

BBC: Re-ordering of priorities in new US defence strategy