From a man who owns a financial-information business, I'd rather hear the careful language of cost-benefit thinking, rather than the absolutist language of "It would be irresponsible not to do everything we can".
Globalization is a pale name for the promised uniting of humankind, where everyone speaks the common language of cost-benefit numbers.
Criticism increased, including from U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, after a copy of the contract surfaced online on Thursday night and raised more questions, particularly over language blocking oversight of costs and profits.
In Norway, for example, the commission on prioritisation in 1987 stipulated that "health care should offer everyone the same opportunity to optimize their health potential," 8 but this does not specifically deal with rare conditions and is potentially inconsistent with language requiring consideration of costs in the Norwegian Patients' Rights Act of 1999.
With Driving Efficiency at the BBC, director general Tony Hall was claiming to be a direct descendant of that other hard-headed leader, John Birt, who used the same language of competition to cut costs and salvage the licence fee.
Despite comprehensive database searches, in which no restrictions on country of interest or language of publication were implemented, cost burden data for the majority of Eastern European countries was not identified.
But in the last decade, and especially since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, steps to include them have faltered in a political climate increasingly hostile to those who face barriers of language, cost and fear of penalties like deportation, say immigrant health experts, providers and patients.
The effects of language barriers on costs, health care usage and visits was examined by dummy coding the three categories (a. individuals facing language barriers and using an interpreter, b. facing language barriers but not using an interpreter, and c. facing no language barriers).
By creating a unified game world instead of different ones balkanized by language, development costs were cut 66%.
However, it is difficult for Burmese migrants to attend Thai schools for a number of reasons including language, cost, fear of deportation, and curriculum [ 1, 2, 7].
