This has huge implications for the cost of providing pensions, as a one-year increase in average life expectancy is thought to increase the cost of paying that person's pension by 3%.
The increase from 2010 to 2011 was primarily due to an increase in traffic, monetization improvements including new ad formats, global expansion, and added Google Network members, as well as an increase in the average cost-per-click paid by advertisers.
However, travelling around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope would add several weeks to average journey times and substantially increase the cost of goods for consumers.
At the same time, Spirit pointed out, there was a 14.5 percent increase in the average economic fuel cost per gallon compared with the same period a year earlier.
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Mr Lloyd said the "modest increase" would cost the average household slightly over an extra penny a day.
Zitzewitz points out, is that it would increase cost and might reduce the average quality of judges.
So what they need to do now is to recognize that this is one of the fundamental reasons why they're having a problem with supplying fuel to the population, and simply increase the cost up to something like the average price paid by citizens of the other Gulf states.
Although popularly sold as a means of reducing overall health-care costs, the creators of the ACA knew that the inclusion of such provisions as the mandatory coverage of pre-existing conditions and the setting of premiums based on average costs rather than actuarial costs would necessarily increase the total cost of such coverage.
The average of Trefis member forecasts for Content Acquisition Cost (As % of Revenues) indicate an increase from 14% in 2010 to 14.3% by 2016, compared to the flat baseline Trefis estimate of around 13% over the Trefis forecast period.
And there are other -- Mercer, a well-known independent benefits consulting firm, released a surveyed of employers showing that their health insurance cost increases will average 5.4 percent for 2012, which is the smallest increase -- or would be the smallest since 1997.
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