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.
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.
Rigorous, hard, fact based Cost-Benefit Analysis has to be applied if the EZ is not to create another cash drain.
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).
ENGADGET: NeuroSky to offer thought control without those pesky brain implants
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.
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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We are seeing a series of experiments with different MMO monetization models at present, but all have the same problem: games which cost as much as or more than a full-sized game are hard to fund with a model best applied to small, repetitive mobile and social games.
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