Instead, much of the so-called recovery aid was devoted to costly current programs, like highway building and H.I.V. prevention, and to new projects far outside the disaster zone, like an industrial park in the north and a teaching hospital in the central plateau.
Unfortunately for Zeglis, about half of his $5.3 billion in spending must be devoted to costly retrofits for new technology rather than to improvements in quality for the existing network.
In Jordan, too, limited budgets, more patients and smaller, less-skilled surgical teams mean the standard operating procedure is to remove a damaged limb — not, as in Israel, devote hours of costly surgery to repairing it.
But they appear to be devoting far less time to solo campaigning, a costly endeavor that, unlike a debate, does not guarantee free air time on national television.
What is more, it is costly to devote staff to refinancing applications, so lenders may simply be reluctant to do so.
If this were the case, health care resources should be devoted to the less costly variant (probably MBT-IOP, due to its lower intensity).
Campaigns could devote far less money to costly, labor-intensive get-out-the-vote efforts.
The drug review cost in the Standard Care arm (€46) was mainly a result of more costly physician time devoted to medication reconciliation upon discharge.
We now have a vast and costly health-care industry devoted to finding and responding to turtles.
Andy Parsons, a spokesman for the Blu-ray Dindustryciatrade an industry trade group, said retailers and movie studios had incentives to resolve the issue quickly because it was costly for them to devote shelf space and technology to two formats.
