This is an industry which has largely managed to escape even basic cost-benefit analysis.
The combination hasn't solved Webvan's basic cost problem: how to increase the number of deliveries per hour.
Developed in the 1960s, the poverty threshold represents the basic cost of food for a household, multiplied by three.
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They include such things as paying workers based on a formula that allows them to meet basic cost-of-living needs.
NHS's basic cost efficiency: it delivers health care of surprisingly high quality at far lower cost than other rich countries have managed.
The only requirement here is basic cost recovery, and the simplest way to do it would be annual odometer readings in connection with license-plate renewal.
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The Living Wage is calculated according to the basic cost of living in the UK. Employers choose to pay it on a voluntary basis.
This proposal threatens to become the latest in a long line of expensive verification systems that fail a basic cost-benefit analysis and threaten to drown Americans in bureaucracy at every stage of their lives.
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And secondary school teacher Craig Macartney, from Suffolk, said he had noted that increasing numbers of children from middle to lower income households were missing school trips as families struggled to meet the basic cost of living.
The most basic economic cost of any regulation is that scarce resources like labor must be used in compliance efforts.
But despite a spirited display, basic errors cost the visitors as the Rhinos ripped their defence to shreds with their slick passing game.
The first stage in the cycle is that of factor-driven economies which focus on low-cost basic factor conditions, such as low-skilled labour, natural resources and geographic location.
And developing basic low-cost pollution technology for coal-fired power generation in the third world would probably get more bang for the pollution buck than just about anything else.
You can hire a motorcycle taxi for 50 baht per hour or, if you can bear cycling in the heat, a basic bicycle will cost 40 baht per day.
Energy is typically 5% of the cost of basic industrial processes, though more for some.
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While 70% of the cost of basic services is paid for by mandatory insurance, consumers have limited treatment choices.
Food prices have risen while the peso has fallen, making the cost of basic necessities more and more expensive.
That, Eli worries, will force Comcast to raise the cost of basic Internet access to compensate for the lost revenue.
Notwithstanding this stated position, in FY 2009 the LDP allowed tax revenue to cover up to 50 percent of the cost of basic pensions.
During the 2000s, companies lost interest in IT as a source of competitive differentiation and focused on trying to make it more efficient by shifting basic functions to lower cost countries.
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In contrast we, in established economies, are currently investing in technologies (like clean tech) that increase the cost of basic amenities like fuel, as well as making a point of honor of protecting industries that need to be cannibalised.
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Mobile internet usage in Africa is increasing rapidly as Orange continues to deploy 3G networks and make more low-cost smartphones available, customers have been steadily moving from basic feature phones towards more low-cost Android smartphones.
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It has also begun to obtain some of its basic garments from low-cost countries, although the bulk of its production remains in Europe.
The panel, which included airline and airport officials, advocated some basic principles like knowing the cost of the entire trip before purchasing a ticket.
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Endless borrowing is not a possibility, since creditors will eventually wake up to basic economics and increase the cost at which they are willing to lend.
They are understood to be drawing up creative plans ranging from cheap and basic warehouses for low-cost carriers such as easyJet to luxurious lounges aimed at winning the hearts of frequent-flying businessmen.
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By objective rationing, we can make our country healthier by providing basic care to all AND lower cost.
These required the basic game and were an extra cost.
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So far the main drivers of European inflation have been the same as most major developed economies: the surging cost of oil and basic food products such as dairy and wheat.
Since the basic Skype service doesn't cost a dime, it threatens to popularize the idea of free calling, and make it difficult for phone companies to continue to charge today's high rates.
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