Secondly it should be used as a substitute for complicated regulation and applied against areas that cost society, such as pollution and (because it creates instability) the use of short-term debt by banks.
Before Dodd-Frank, the high-cost designation only applied to loans for refinancing, but the financial law expanded it to apply to loans for purchases as well.
To enable the Railroad Retirement Board to adjust the amount of benefits payable under the Railroad Retirement Act at the time the cost of living adjustment is applied.
Rigorous, hard, fact based Cost-Benefit Analysis has to be applied if the EZ is not to create another cash drain.
Here was a man who had refused, as if on principle, to swing at a bad pitch, and then applied that same steely resolve to his legal situation, at some cost to his dignity.
Although, the report does not touch on the area of funding, the contributors maintain that decision-makers are actively looking for cost-effective climate resilience-building tools that can be applied in the near future.
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Some governments are becoming understandably sceptical about such claims as the cost of accommodating them rises, and are pushing the universities towards more applied work.
But now, NeuroSky (a fab(u)less startup of US chip designers and Russian neuroscientists chillin' in NorCal) claims a "breakthrough" in non-invasive neural sensors allowing low-cost, dry (no contact gels) neural mapping solutions to be applied to those things you'd most like to mind control (spouse, voters, TV, game console, cellphone).
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Brands essentially underwrite the cost of products that consumers are already purchasing in exchange for their branding to be applied to those goods.
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Stoler noted that Stahura applied for and Demand now owns Patent 7539774, which covers methods for obtaining large numbers of web addresses at low cost including near-misses to trademarked names.
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