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In the early design stage of a flight vehicle, digital computer modeling of prospective designs enables rapid examination of several candidate configurations and thus replaces a portion of costly wind-tunnel testing.

An analysis by Milliman for the state's insurance exchange, Covered California, estimates that insurers will raise premiums 14% higher in California for the coming year to account for all the new people they had to offer coverage, a portion of whom will need costly medical care.

That comes as no surprise; designers generally rely on the standardized markups on costly furnishings for a portion of their fee, if not all of it.

The unpredictable climate finally forced Mr. Lamothe to invest in a costly vacuum pump system to get more sap out of a portion of his 4,400 taps.

Traditional manufacturing businesses use a lot of costly capital equipment.

There's a growing consensus among economists, investors, academics, and consumer advocates that more "principal reduction" -- writing off a portion of a mortgage that exceeds a home's value in exchange for a higher likelihood of repayment -- can help avoid another wave of costly and economy-crushing foreclosures.

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COSTLY VIOLATION Linebacker Rey Maualuga of the Cincinnati Bengals has been fined two game checks by the N.F.L. and will forfeit a portion of his signing bonus for 2010 for a drunk driving violation.

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National Century gets a portion of each transaction.