Instead, they lost and cost themselves not only 3 points in the table but also nearly 1.75 points in the residual standings.
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Rivals including Hewlett-Packard and Apple figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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Michael Dell, who founded Dell out of his college dorm room in 1984, retook the CEO job in 2007 after sales faltered as rivals including Hewlett-Packard figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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In their paper Consumer City, Ed Glaeser, Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz argue that cities lost their manufacturing bases when they lost the transportation cost advantage.
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Of course, the price of the lost hardware is the smallest cost, with the biggest ones being lost IP and the costs of complying with mandatory data breach reporting regulations.
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The pressure to figure out how to do things better at less cost is lost.
"There's the cost of lost business and the government's own inability to communicate, " he says.
But electricity customers are being asked to pay towards the impact of the damage to the underwater cable by covering the cost of lost sales.
The resulting opportunity cost is lost private investment and consumption.
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True, someone somewhere may be able to supply a cheaper part, but if it is not tailored to the user's needs, or if it does not consistently arrive on time, the cost in lost production could be huge.
The HS2 project has not considered the cost of lost time for commuters, disruption to the Central Line on London Underground, and the loss to businesses as people might be put off from going to the area because of the traffic, she added.
The irony, which seems to have been lost on Washington, is that an artificially low cost of capital (created by lenders who lost sight of risk management) got us into this mess in the first place, and now we're considering returning to easy money to get us out of it.
The trade-off for the societal cost of this lost information should be the deterrent effect from criminal prosecutions.
The costs of notebook repair (both financial and the cost of time lost and general aggravation) add up.
When they do, the results can cost weeks of lost productivity, reveal private information and sometimes wipe out a business altogether.
But the opportunity cost, in lost wages, of the 12-month Indian program is materially less than that of a two-year U.S. program.
Struggling against high costs, it has lost out to low-cost rivals.
That process can cost companies in lost business and productivity.
And thanks to a flexible labour market and an open economy it has already clawed back a good deal of the cost competitiveness it lost during the boom years.
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More difficult to estimate is the cost to Mindanao in lost opportunity and continuing poverty.
The Scots produced an encouraging display, but indiscipline and handling errors cost them as they lost 22-13.
Cost: Thousands of lost jobs and millions in fines.
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In addition, TPC has looked at how the measures would affect households in various income groups and, using Joint Committee on Taxation estimates, how much each plan would cost the Treasury in lost revenue.
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This may educate Republicans like Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, who since the election has emphasized tax credits for having children that cost the most in lost revenue but do the least for economic growth.
Preliminary calculations suggest that it could reduce the strength of cyclonic storms substantially, perhaps weakening a category five hurricane to a category four or three and thus preventing billions of dollars of damage and the cost of human lives lost.
While common sense says that those who spend work hours popping out to the store for a new pair of shoes or surfing the Web for personal use probably cost employers something in lost productivity, there's no definitive proof that employee "downtime" is any more prevalent than it was a generation ago, when telephone and watercooler banter was in.
The council is suing for the cost of the work, lost income and legal expenses.
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