Some in the state, too, were considering a less tangible cost: how would memories of the shutdown (people turned away at state parks and politicians going days without talking to one another) affect the state's image of lovely lakes and relatively efficient government?
Subsequently, a spreadsheet tool is developed to allow CCM users to calculate the tangible cost savings as a result of using the system.
Our goal was to help them see how political and economic forces have a tangible, human cost.
On an individual level, there's the obvious, tangible cost of imbibing -- how much someone actually spends on alcohol -- that many Americans are reminded of when they pore over their receipts and reflect on their budgets come tax time.
Mr. Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal research group, said that as the cuts became real, they would "deeply discredit" those who foster the idea that government spending is inherently wasteful and that there is no tangible cost to reducing it.
Providing free legal assistance usually doesn't just pay for itself, but often produces genuine and tangible cost savings, not to mention the savings in the human costs associated with evictions and foreclosures, to name just two things lawyers can prevent.
As EC [ 25] suggested the majority of the research conducted in the field of waste focuses only on the tangible cost of methods of waste management and not the intangible benefits that can result.
The terminal nodes represent the end of each of the therapeutic decisions, for which a double evaluation will be made: on the one hand, the effectiveness of the treatment for acute low back pain and, on the other, the direct tangible cost of the therapeutic activities considered.
Immigrants bring diffuse and hard-to-see benefits to average Americans while imposing more tangible costs on a few, Shierholz says.
