Such a system defies cost control, and makes it extremely difficult to compare one contractor's cost with another's.
Part of the problem is structural: Internal reports, reviewed by FORBES, show, for example, that even after Zoellick implemented a budget freeze some officials operated an off-budget system that defies cost control, while others used revolving doors to game the system to make fortunes for themselves or enhance their positions within the bank.
But Go Ape certainly isn't cheap – an hour of defying death costs more than £100 for a family of four – and that expense does run rather contrary to the all-inclusive spirit in which parks were originally founded.
Moscow's attitude toward Ukraine is condescending and heavy-handed, Weiss said, and Putin's fixation on keeping former Soviet republics tethered to Moscow "defies rational cost-benefit analysis".
But thanks to the Focus on Vision Foundation, and FocusSpecs, their patented corrective eye glasses with adjustable focus lenses, Lucresia could see clearly again within seconds of putting them on, and at an industry defying retail cost of NAD$160 a pair - which is $US10.
In a developing country such as ours, establishing exclusive anaesthesia clinics may be defied by cost factor.
What the nail-salon owners have done to defy Baumol's cost disease, then, is to pay their workers much less than a market wage.
The Defy XT costs $249 from Republic Wireless, which as Engadget points out, is a tad steep for a Gingerbread-era phone.
These commitments defy the logic of cost and benefit, investment and return.
These criminals, he writes, "realized that a majority of the American public would do whatever it took and pay whatever it cost to defy Prohibition".
