While revenue sharing costs and postage costs are variable, other costs have large fixed components.
Without sharing costs and technology, it is not at all clear, for instance, that China will invest in the holy grail of climate science: funnelling greenhouse gases underground.
It is in these circumstances that there is a strong case for a graduate tax, which may offer a fairer way of sharing costs between individuals and government.
If you and I find out we are going to the same places, we can get together and come up with new solutions for getting there more efficiently by sharing costs and buying travel collaboratively.
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The federal money was to be channelled to state governments with both sides sharing the costs of the programme.
How comfortable would depositors in northern economies feel about sharing the costs of insuring the deposits in these banks?
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Sharing development costs saves hundreds of millions, and churning out parts in greater numbers affords economies of scale denied to a single company.
What Naples does is to remind German taxpayers just how different some European cultures are and the risks in sharing the costs of their debts.
Professor Jonathan Shepherd, from Cardiff University, said the research showed sharing information costs little, and saves money in the longer term for the NHS and the criminal justice system.
In the 21st century, America can not tell its own citizens that we lack the resources to provide the benefits of citizenship but continue to pick up the tab for military actions around the world when others should be sharing those costs.
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Class actions are a vehicle through which individuals harmed by fraudulent conduct of companies and Wall Street firms can seek redress as a large group, thus sharing the costs and expenses, which they could not do if they all brought their own individual suits.
The primary costs governing these margins include revenue sharing and content acquisition costs, postage costs and DVD shipment center costs.
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The idea this time around is to stick to the basics--sharing venues and costs with Major League Soccer men's teams and developing stars and building an identity more gradually.
But given their proximity to each other, the two projects were able to cut costs by sharing electrical and transmission infrastructure.
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The world's biggest airlines have flocked together into alliances in an attempt to expand their networks around the world and to cut costs by sharing some parts of their operations.
On June 6th the European Commission took the first steps towards this with a proposed framework for dealing with failing banks that includes plans for sharing some of the costs of recapitalising cross-border banks.
Mr Desmond intends to trim costs further by sharing across his titles such flexible resources as journalists and the expensive rights to celebrity photographs: OK!
British Labour MEP Derek Vaughan, the author of the report, said there needed to be more co-operation between the EU institutions, such as sharing human resources, building costs and interpretation costs.
This is best done by physicians carefully weighing the benefits against the risks and costs and the sharing that information with the patient and all the physicians who treat that patient.
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But there are other ways for companies to cooperate and cut costs, such as sharing CD manufacturing and distribution.
Chrysler, meanwhile, is in some ways ahead of Ford and GM in reducing costs and complexity by sharing underbodies and parts between different vehicles and brands, and by building vehicles in flexible factories that can build different models in response to demand.
Over 50 institutions or families have started multi-family offices, spreading the costs of their office by sharing its services with other families.
The idea was to outshine other airline alliances, which are essentially joint marketing arrangements, with a link that cut costs as well, by sharing aircraft and ground facilities.
Reaching 250 college campuses, the deal is a win for both Ford and ZipCar, giving the automaker exposure to a younger market and lowering costs for the auto-sharing company.
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Esa believes this flexibility of handling multiple missions at once will prove attractive to future commercial customers, not least because sharing a rocket ride helps to constrain costs for all the payloads onboard.
It is not a unilateral United States effort, and that is a good thing, for a variety of reasons, not just because sharing the burden with our allies reduces costs and risk for American -- for the American military, and not just because we have a lot of other commitments around the world, but because the President is focused, in this and in all things, on the end result.
Under a production-sharing contract, an oil company would recoup its costs and then be entitled to a proportion of the oil extracted, instead of being paid a fixed fee for each barrel.
Firms must bear all of the costs of a disparate workforce, without the advantages of sharing foreign ideas.
Car sharing, biking, and walking are all possibilities, which reduces costs like fuel and wear-and-tear on your vehicle (if you own one).
Short of Paul Ryan's premium-support plan, the only chance for reform worth the name is "comprehensive cost-sharing" that forces individuals to confront at least some of the costs of their own care.
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