The United Nations refuses to clear the mines because, Captain Burt said, that would constitute tampering with the status quo, which the peacekeepers are there to maintain, making sure neither side appears to build a higher wall or encroach into the buffer zone.
All of these structures cost millions of dollars a year to maintain, making the games' costs their enduring "legacy .Perhaps the only encouraging finding in Mr Zimbalist's work is that potential hosts are getting wise to the bad deal the IOC and FIFA seek to foist on them.
Small, agile, versatile and durable, jeeps were easy to deploy, easy to operate and easy to maintain, making them perhaps the Allies' most important battlefield equipment.
But such systems are expensive and time-consuming to install and maintain, making cellphones an attractive alternative, especially for earthquake-prone countries in the developing world.
Furthermore, automated counters are expensive, bulky and costly to maintain making them unsuitable as a point of care diagnostic tool.
However, Old World and hominoid primates are long-lived and costly to maintain, making the use of these primates in longitudinal research problematic from both scientific and financial perspectives.
