Sentence examples for expensive provisions from inspiring English sources

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Even union officials acknowledge that the contract is rich with expensive provisions.

But if the administration wants to substantially lower the corporate-tax rate, then it must take on its most expensive provisions.

The more expensive provisions may prove even more elusive.Eric Toder of the Urban Institute says "the ten most costly provisions benefiting business investment account for about 92 percent" of revenue losses over the next five years.

Legacy costs, such as labor contracts with expensive provisions, weakened incumbent steel companies like Bethlehem Steel Corp. Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation has gripped the business consciousness like few other ideas.

Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, said the price tag put on the bill -- $829 billion over 10 years -- understated the costs because the most expensive provisions would not take effect until 2013 and 2014.

In addition, many of the most expensive provisions of the legislation, which would reduce taxes on foreign corporate income, have been "backloaded" and do not take effect until much later in the decade.

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— San Francisco transit officials are calling for a return to the bargaining table, saying an expensive provision was erroneously included in a labor contract that settled a union dispute.

The most expensive provision of the plan is a five-year reduction in taxes on dividends and capital gains, set to cost $148 billion.

With its new General Purpose SSD volumes, Amazon now offers a middle tier between its standard hard-disk-based storage options for its Elastic Block Store (EBS) and its more expensive Provisioned IOPS volumes, which already used SSDs.

So, in effect, permanently fixing it won't cost more money but the budget office, which pretends the fix won't be made each year, will count it as an expensive provision.

A far more expensive provision in the legislation -- $5.3 billion -- would allows corporations to sharply accelerate depreciation of investments in 2009, effectively permitting half the cost to be written off for tax purposes -- a process called partial expensing -- in the first year.

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