So cost-benefit analysis is rarely dispositive, but to say that costs are irrelevant is just misguided.
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"The bottom line is you have to do a cost-benefit analysis, " Arnold of CreditRatings.com said.
Whistle-blowers undoubtedly face significant risk and must do cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to come forward.
This is an industry which has largely managed to escape even basic cost-benefit analysis.
Those who question cost-benefit analysis doubt that a price tag can ever be put on life.
Also to his credit, he has insisted on applying cost-benefit analysis to environmental legislation.
The IRS has failed to perform a cost-benefit analysis, as required by executive order 12866 .
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Whether or not this is fair to President George Bush's administration, is it fair to cost-benefit analysis?
Various industry lobbies and GOP Congressmen demanded that the SEC do a cost-benefit analysis on the rule.
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In today's cost-benefit analysis of fighting something in court vs. damaging your relationship with your consumers, relationships win.
Cost-benefit analysis (which puts a discount rate on the future, and measures in dollars and cents) is wicked.
Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis.
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Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
As the critics allege, cost-benefit analysis works like a kind of universal solvent.
Rigorous, hard, fact based Cost-Benefit Analysis has to be applied if the EZ is not to create another cash drain.
Even his decision to ditch some of his predecessor's last-minute environmental regulations owed more to cost-benefit analysis than to ideology.
This micro view of customer economics provides a foundation for cost-benefit analysis of investment decisions aimed at building stronger customer relationships.
Proponents argue that such cost-benefit analysis has to figure into health-care decisions, and that any medical system rations care in some way.
This debate is by no means over, since all the elements that could allow a significant cost-benefit analysis are not yet available.
In it, he explores the centuries-old, and still raging, philosophical arguments over the limitations of utilitarianism and its economic descendant, cost-benefit analysis.
However, Miron does not consider this to be the full cost-benefit analysis.
Are they going to be part of the review on cost-benefit analysis?
Such a decision would be based on an extensive cost-benefit analysis that would need to satisfy members of VW Group's board of management.
Based on the results of cost-benefit analysis, state regulators would potentially require investor-owned utilities to enter long-term contracts to buy offshore wind power.
And investments, including the Underground's current star project, the Jubilee Line extension, have sometimes been guided more by political considerations than by careful cost-benefit analysis.
Private benefits have long been used in cost-benefit analysis but Ms Dudley's data show that, like co-benefits, their importance has grown dramatically under Mr Obama.
But the audit is reportedly not going to include a cost-benefit analysis, owing to the difficulty of quantifying such aspects of EU membership as foreign affairs influence.
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With human cloning technology just around the corner and enough frozen sperm in the world to already populate many generations, perhaps we should perform a cost-benefit analysis.
Thus, the framework for the cost-benefit analysis is not, what would they have done in the private sector versus what would they have done in the public sector?
And so if how we're gauging where a particular regulation is smart or not, part of what we're trying to do is at least apply rigorous cost-benefit analysis.
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