"It's simple: Does Mr. Walder think that outdated labor costs are contributing to the M.T.A.'s long-term budget problems and its lack of funds for capital investment, or not?" she said.
Trump says the NATO alliance is outdated and costs too much money, and says he would tell other members to "pay up" or "get out".
According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation and others, compliance under our outdated system costs corporations and the government more than $40 billion annually.
The message Ms. Miller got as she watched them leave was one she has received a lot lately: her shop, a fixture on 37th Avenue for 62 years, was outdated, her dresses cost too much, her time had passed.
For extra fun, invite them through an outdated medium that costs you money.
Some patients are given low-cost, outdated versions of medicine that cause excessive tremors and other side effects.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has repeatedly argued that the Pentagon needs to phase out such high-cost, outdated programs so it can buy the kinds of weapons that American troops desperately need to complete their mission in Iraq and defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
"The East Coast is still in government ownership and its service is outdated and underinvested, costing passengers and the country dearly as a result.
"The Smarter Sentencing Act takes an important step forward in reducing the financial and human cost of outdated and imprudent sentencing policies," Lee said in a statement earlier this year.
Correction: September 24, 2000, Sunday The What's Doing column on Sept. 10, about New York, included an outdated reference to the cost of a lunch at Guastavino's, the new restaurant under the Queensboro Bridge.
