There were no formal methods of selection for the higher personnel; the secretary-general of the League used personal contacts.
The company Vardaga, which has come under fierce criticism for standards of elderly care, said accommodation for child refugees involved high personnel costs, long lead-times and a high degree of uncertainty.
"Programs that are needed in today's economy are often high cost programs that have high personnel costs for people who have the special skills and high equipment costs," Mr. Green said.
Simply put, the industry's champions argue that the F.D.A. suffers from high personnel turnover, an unwieldy bureaucracy and a regimen that forces start-up device companies to run new and costly tests constantly, often duplicating past efforts.
While higher personnel costs are most likely at the core of their opposition, they also argue that hospitals that already have good ratios will use the standards to justify cutting the number of nurses on each floor.
Studies by the health care system's consultants show that it has higher personnel costs and a higher staff-to-patent ratio than the average for other hospitals, and that its 35-hour workweek is shorter than the 40-hour standard.
Under the circumstances, Jesse Marsch will take the win from a game he afterwards described as "a brawl", even with the high personnel cost – mainly since locker room irritation at the team's opening day loss to Toronto had all the potential to devolve into full grown crisis had the Red Bulls fallen to a third consecutive loss.
Morgan has cited improved cost controls as a key goal of its merger with Bank One, but the bank said that expenses in the quarter rose six percent to $1.9 billion due to the Bank One acquisition and higher personnel, technology and legal costs.
Novel design methodologies are often evaluated through studies involving human designers, but such studies can incur a high personnel cost.
Sue and her colleagues tried to notify university officials of abuses but were "basically discouraged from proceeding, almost laughed at by the university higher personnel," she says.
