They are so time-consuming and expensive to create, the engines can be licensed out to handle other graphics-intensive games.

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What these bonuses foster, instead, is an ultra-expensive environment inhospitable to more middle-class employment, although it does create a boom market for low-end service workers.

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Because generic companies tend to challenge patents of every successful drug, the FTC's position would impose onerous legal costs on brand-name drugmakers and limit their ability to fund expensive research to create new drugs, said the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents brand-name drugmakers.

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Well, for one, the products are still expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive to create and without a defined market to sell into may not be worth the risk.

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Once a variant looks like it might be a cause of disease, it is double-checked using Sanger sequencing, the older, more expensive process that was used to create the original draft of the human genome a decade ago.

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Low-income housing advocates are horrified, viewing the mass trailer parks as an expensive way to create refugee camps and to concentrate poverty.

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