Moreover, they pursue inherently medium and long-term growth initiatives in a climate that usually values hitting short-term financial targets, and so they are prime candidates for cost-cutting when inevitable budget crunches arise.
To improve our health care system, we must address one of the prime causes of higher cost: the constant threat that physicians and hospitals will be unfairly sued.
Yet even if he came second, that would not necessarily cost the prime minister his job: he has several potential coalition partners whereas Mr Kaczynski has hardly any.
"With creative forces of Stephen King and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television behind Under the Dome, we think our customers will love this new show and we're excited to be able to offer this highly-anticipated series at no additional cost to Prime members, " said Brad Beale, Director of Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon.
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Britain is clearly determined to stay close by America's side, even at high political cost to its prime minister, Tony Blair.
The app also offers access to Prime Instant Video, a service with more than 17, 000 movies and TV episodes available to Prime members at no additional cost.
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Health minister Earl Howe denied that cost was the prime consideration for NICE - the body that approves treatments for use by the NHS - in declining to license a new oral treatment for MS. He added some neurologists had concerns about the effects of using the drug Fingolimod.
In addition, Amazon Prime members can watch more than 30, 000 titles on Prime Instant Video at no additional cost.
The prime example he offers is the cost of building stadiums now that credit is hard to come by and high-tech amenities are increasingly needed to lure fans from their 60-inch, high-def home televisions.
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The cost of a similar nonsports prime-time ad, by contrast, fell 14% last year from 2007.
In opposition both the Lib Dems and Conservatives called for the scheme to be reformed - Gordon Brown also ordered a review, when he was prime minister, to halt the growing cost to the taxpayer.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said directors whose negligence cost lives should not be allowed to get away "scot-free".
"This can be a huge cost for dairy farmers who lose prime dairy cows and consequently suffer financially from loss of milk volume, " said Andrew Lewis, Pembrokeshire NFU Cymru county chairman.
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced an expansion of a licensing agreement with PBS Distribution that will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream, at no additional cost, current and archived PBS programming.
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This subscription offer allows US Prime customers to stream as many Prime Instant Videos as they like, at no additional cost.
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This subscription offer allows US Prime customers to stream as many titles from Prime Instant Video as they like, at no additional cost.
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Prime Instant Video includes more than 18, 000 movies and TV episodes available for Prime members to instantly stream and enjoy at no additional cost.
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Among Zucker's cost-saving proposals: cutting back on prime-time programming hours.
The Prime Instant Video library now features more than 36, 000 movies and TV episodes including fan-favorite shows such as Downton Abbey, Fringe, and The West Wing and blockbuster movies including Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Rango and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, for Amazon Prime members to stream, commercial free at no additional cost on Kindle Fire HD, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U, among other devices.
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Mr McGuinness said the prime minister had not put a final figure to him on the cost of a settlement.
If it kicks out the prime minister, the president can call an election, which would cost a lot of deputies their seats, their comfy Moscow flats and other perks.
Amazon Prime subscribers get access to books that can be borrowed for no additional cost.
Speaking about the Syrian conflict, the former prime minister warned there was "no end in sight" and the cost of not intervening would be "very high".
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Prime Minister Monti succeeded in stabilizing the public finances, but at the cost of a deeper recession than in all other eurozone economies except Greece and Spain.
Among other things, it hires and fires both the prime minister and his cabinet, as Mr Ghanem has just found to his cost.
They have raised their per-viewer rates 110%in the last ten years, despite a 30% decline in their prime-time audience, more than making up for a 30% increase in the cost of living.
In other words, most of the increases in the acquisition cost of the F-35 have nothing to do with the performance of the prime contractor.
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Last week, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi warned Nissan that it should think hard about the impact of its drastic cost-cutting program on workers and subcontractors.
It is possible that some time next autumn a couple of big banks will announce big losses in their prime-brokerage and proprietary-trading businesses and if this were to raise their cost of funding substantially, it could begin to be a crisis.
Expect many Prime users to realise the extra benefit means they can always be reading something on their Kindle at no extra cost.
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