At same time, though, the board's Income and Expense Study, which emanates from a Department of Finance survey of landlords, found that landlords' net operating income had fallen by 0.1percentt in 2002.
But a report by the city's Rent Guidelines Board, the "2003 Income and Expense Study," covering 2001 (the most recent year for which figures are available), concludes that net operating income -- gross rental income minus expenses but exclusive of debt service -- was 44percentt.
The two studies -- the Price Index of Operating Costs, and the Income and Expense Study -- present the most concrete evidence to date to help the board perform its annual mandate of adjusting rents for the city's supply of nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
Karen Beckwith, president and chief executive of Gelco Expense Management in Eden Prairie, Minn., one of more than a dozen companies competing in this market, cited a company that reduced its travel-related telecommunications costs by 10percentt after studying expense report data and finding that employees were not using the cheapest ways to make calls.
The income-and-expenses study covered 1998, the most recent year for which figures were available, and was based on a survey of more than 10,000 buildings by the city's tax assessors.
And to enormous expense: many studies have shown that the death penalty is far more costly to taxpayers than a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
To reduce the expense, environmental studies use a regression relationship to make use of more readily observed measurements (e.g. electromagnetic (EM) data) which are strongly correlated with the variable of interest.
Unfortunately, NIMH funding -- our tax dollars -- are now earmarked for research directed only toward drug development at the expense of studies on psychotherapy.
The superiority of the PS+PA supplementation can also be derived from the fact that 6 out of 14 (42.9%) patients (or their families) in the PS+PA supplementation group of Study 2 (while still double-blinded) decided to continue the supplementation at their own expense after study termination, compared to none in the placebo group.
The year after the execution, two alienists decided to make, at thei own expense, a study of his life.
