However, this will impose a potentially large transitional cost as younger people cease to pay national-insurance contributions.
A provision in the tax bill that the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed — and that the Senate is still considering — would impose a potentially enormous tax increase on graduate students: as much as a 300percenttaxax hike in some cases.
BEIJING — China has imposed a potentially crippling $1.3 billion fine on the company responsible for faulty vaccines given to hundreds of thousands of children, sending its strongest signal yet of a stricter legal environment for the scandal-prone industry.
This approach can be problematic, as it requires a degree of centralisation and trust in the issuing party which, in turn, imposes a potentially significant level of counterparty risk for the holder of the stablecoin, particularly if the holder has no security over or other rights to the collateral.
School closure has moderate impact on the epidemic's scope, but the resulting disruption to society imposes a potentially great cost in terms of lost productivity from parents' work absenteeism.
The same judge who found Mr. Khodorkovsky guilty will now decide whether to impose a second, potentially lengthy, sentence.
But opponents said the bill would impose a new, potentially costly federal mandate at a time when health costs and insurance premiums were rising rapidly.
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, last week attacked the requirement to have insurance, the so-called individual mandate, as potentially imposing a crippling penalty of $1,500 on a family earning as little as $25,000 a year.
Like Japan's, South Korea's population is aging after a decline in birthrate, potentially imposing a higher pension-cost burden on the economy as fewer workers support greater numbers of retirees.
However, storm conditions could cause damage to E. radiata plants across ∼40% of rocky reefs where E. radiata occurs, but would likely only affect the largest individuals, potentially imposing a spatially variable upper size limit in E. radiata communities.
