So Frito-Lay officials started exploring more ambitious — and expensive — methods.
One of the very few proven, but expensive, methods of improving educational outcomes is smaller class size.
But the project, like others, has been long-delayed, leading companies to pursue more expensive methods such as rail.
In addition to opening the door to gastronomic innovations, this discovery also holds hope for less expensive methods of cancer discovery and treatment.
In addition, the merchants claimed, the payment processors unfairly banned stores from compelling their customers to use less expensive methods of payments like cash and checks.
Retailers do retain some flexibility, he said, to steer customers away from more expensive forms of payment, like rewards credit cards, and toward less expensive methods.
Some physicians' practices are not very familiar with longer-acting, more expensive methods like I.U.D.'s, implants and shots, or do not stock them.
Dimension stones are extracted in a highly selective manner, using time-consuming and expensive methods for freeing the blocks from the surrounding rock.
But, as the 21st century kicked into gear, stocks of easily extracted fossil fuels began to run low, and industries resorted to increasingly dangerous – and expensive – methods for extraction, often with deadly, environmentally destructive results.
"As you can surmise," Porcelli said, "there are expensive methods of repair, and there are inexpensive methods of repair, and typically the insurance company is going to go with one that is perhaps more inexpensive".
A federal court recently ruled that the Unocal Corporation could charge refiners royalties for a specific technique for producing cleaner-burning gasoline, forcing refiners to turn to more expensive methods.
