Mr Djindjic's move came with a price-tag - the collapse of the Yugoslav government.
But since April, every patient admitted for elective (non-emergency) operations has had a price-tag attached to his treatment, so that hospitals are rewarded according to how busy they are.
The second reason cost matters so much is that while relatively few people in Congress and the media understand cutting-edge aerospace technology, they all think they understand what a price-tag means.
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"If someone came through these doors with a big price-tag and a huge ego they'd get laughed at, " said the 6ft 2in American.
The engineers emphasised that building more resilient infrastructure need not come with a huge price tag - it was mainly a case of understanding the issues and taking sensible, far-sighted decisions.
So the Army has managed to combine in one program a politically controversial price-tag and risky development plan with an unattractive structure of incentives that gives contractors little reason to support its most important new vehicle initiative.
Elsewhere in sports only Manchester United, the U.K. soccer team, carries a billion-dollar price tag.
The minor drawback: A million-dollar price tag.
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Chromebooks have traditionally been priced for the low end of the market, but Google has decided to go for the well-heeled cloud warrior with the Chromebook Pixel, a touchscreen laptop with a super-high resolution screen and a price tag to match.
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The price-tag of a legacy fighter may appear to be lower, but if it is less likely to survive combat, or its survival depends on support from electronic jammers and other helpers that a stealthy fighter does not need, then in the end the plane with the higher price-tag may turn out to be cheaper.
If you already own the game, however, the price-tag is a bit on the steep side.
Although he wasn't prepared to let on exactly how much he paid for the old Boeing, Dios confirmed that the price tag was a six-figure sum (in euros).
So shocking was the lack of interest in A-Rod's price tag that the players union even declared publicly it would look into the possibility of collusion (see SportsMoney blog: "Player's Union Way Off Base").
With the help of Vue brewers (which has a much higher price tag than K-cup brewers) and another espresso machine that Green Mountain plans to launch in late 2012 or early 2013, that figure could get a further boost.
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Britain, Australia and others have also vowed to help fund demonstration plants partly because they reckon the private sector is put off by the huge price-tag on a single CCS power plant, and also in the belief that the cost of CCS will fall with experience.
If all goes as planned, the Coda will become the first mass-produced all-electric sedan for sale in the United States next fall, with a price tag, after government rebates, of about thirty-two thousand dollars.
The Society of Civil Engineers ( Failure to Act Studies) gives its price tag for restoring a first-world infrastructure.
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A-class and a premium price tag of DM30, 000 (about twice the price of other cars with similar exterior dimensions).
As chance would have it, the same week the costly new vehicle concept was revealed, the Navy Department was moving to cancel a Marine amphibious vehicle that cost a similar amount, mainly because the price-tag was too high.
At the high-performance end of the market, Ferrari's F-150 Enzo-replacement, with a price tag well in excess of a million euros, will be challenged by McLaren's P1, which was first seen as a concept in Paris last September.
There's a moral here, simple but worth repeating as investors go hunting for bargains among beaten-down stocks: The price tag on a company is not just the value of the common shares but the outstanding debt, too.
Those who question cost-benefit analysis doubt that a price tag can ever be put on life.
If they are to have any traction in the financial markets, those bond purchases cannot have a 100bn-euro or 200bn-euro price tag attached to them.
There are now more than 1, 000 former NFL players involved in lawsuits related to concussions and head-related trauma with a potential price tag in the billions.
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Traditionally, these high-end robotic solutions carry a price tag in the tens of thousands, but starting this week, Robotex is targeting the consumer market with its Avatar.
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Unfortunately, a trip to Gorgona comes with a hefty price tag, making a visit an unattainable dream for many Colombians, especially the poverty-stricken residents of Guapi, to whom the island politically belongs.
Right now, a big barrier to accomplishing that goal is the price-tag.
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Microsoft started with 100, 000 apps when Windows Phone 8 launched, but has not provided any data around how many have been downloaded, how include in-app purchases, or have a price tag.
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