One specific capability gap the top brass mentioned was that of maritime patrol aircraft - the result of good money going after bad in the long-delayed and ever-expensive Nimrod programme.
Under either proposal, future students -- or their parents -- would pay more to borrow from the government to finance ever-expensive college tuition.
Worse, new kit is becoming ever more expensive.
As long as lawmakers do nothing, the state's problems will become ever more expensive and ever harder to solve.
Air travel remains a necessity, even as it gets ever more expensive.
For most Russians, whose salaries are denominated in roubles, imports are becoming ever more expensive.
Education, housing, and health care – essential ingredients for individual success – are growing ever more expensive.
Inheritance-tax laws were tightened in 1998, and tougher regulations make maintaining old houses ever more expensive.
Equally alarming was that, as the rate of sick leave was still rising, it threatened to become ever more expensive.
Earlier this year, New Statesman reported that under London's streets were countless miniature diggers, trapped for ever beneath expensive houses.
