They also contested the cost of the full game, featuring only 65 songs compared with 85 songs in Guitar Hero 5, and considered if the content would have been better in downloadable form.
The new law quickly lowered costs and gave workers more money, and Mr. Weiss sped up appeals and contested cases.
In most contested cases, nothing.
Mr. O'Hearn said that a typical contested House race on Long Island costs about $1 million.
But the idea that cutting the 50p rate costs £3bn is contested (to put it politely), and the other saving is a hypothetical one.
Democrats called Saturday for an investigation of charges that the Bush administration threatened to fire a top Medicare official if he gave data to Congress showing the high costs of hotly contested Medicare legislation.
He described Mr. Entwistle as "a very, very distinguished, long-serving member of the BBC" who had lost his career there over the "Newsnight" scandal, and said that if Mr. Entwistle had contested his departure, the overall cost of the settlement would have been much higher.
The desirability of increasing nurse staffing levels as a means to improve quality is contested on grounds other than cost.
The organization also contested the allegations of excessive overhead costs, claiming that its spending was similar to that of other organizations working in the region.
Drones are considered poor coercion tools: They cannot operate in contested airspace and they offer low-cost fights instead of more credible, costly signals.
The most-cited reasons are complexity and high legal costs, especially when a divorce is contested.
