Another "compensatory factor", it said, was that "the current price level reflects the emergence from poverty of China and India... Rapid growth as a cost inflator is more acceptable than the embargo imposed by Arab producers during the first oil crisis [in 1973-74]." The South China Morning Post explained the region's influence on prices.
MBS, PBS and APDC cost estimates were converted to 2010 prices using appropriate price inflators [ 45].
Real growth without the import price "inflator" was a decline of 1.3%.
*Costs were inflated to 2012 where appropriate by using Canadian health inflators; ***Weighted average inflated to 2012; CIHI = Canadian Institute for Health Information OCCII = Ontario Case Costing Initiative; OHIP = Ontario Health Insurance Plan RAMQQ = Regie de l'assurance Maladie du Quebec.
Dealers will replace the air bag inflators at no cost to the customer.
In October, a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles accused Takata Corp. of building millions of shoddy airbag inflators in a cost-cutting measure.
The testing could help GM fend off several recalls totaling 6.8 million trucks and SUVS with the same inflators that ultimately could cost the company $870 million, according to a GM filing with securities regulators.
"The inflators themselves are not so expensive, but there is the cost to cover for the hours spent to fix the problem," said Kohei Takahashi, an auto analyst at JPMorgan in Japan.
Such an expansion would cost Takata billions on top of what it already has spent replacing inflators, raising concerns about the company's financial health.
Second, once inflators and public subsidies are taken out, net research costs are a fraction of the $1-5 1-5 billion new drug claimed, and big comperies largely inewst after the public andrughers have paid for the high risks of researclaimediscover new drugs.
For non-US studies, all country-specific costs first updated to Year 2004 currency values based on country-specific inflators; and then converted to Year 2004 US$ based on currency exchange rates.
