Others would be doomed to be flowers that bloom for a season and then wither away, sustained on a steady diet of costly subsidies as wards of the state.
But still, those who make it to the front of the plane are there because they've earned their place through a steady, and doubtless costly, accumulation of miles.
In the light of scarce resources to be allocated for cancer care and a steady stream of costly innovations in all modalities applied to treat cancer, particle therapy needs to demonstrate its cost-utility balance to allow its positioning in the context of competing modalities.
This is computationally very costly for steady state response analysis.
"The new study is the latest attempt by the academic research community to seek relief from what it sees as the steady accretion of unreasonable and costly government-wide regulations and policy directives from individual agencies," he wrote.
The market is growing by over 10% a year, thanks to ageing baby boomers keen to stay active in later life, plus a steady stream of new and costlier devices coming to market.
The game lacked a steady cadence and Boston went into a costly drought in the fourth quarter.
The executive director, John Martello, ran the club for nearly 20 years, during which it endured steady six-figure deficits, seven-figure debts, costly labor disputes and unrest from members.
Moreover, without tough public rules and steady government oversight, private partnerships will yield costly problems.
In spite of efforts to get people onto the grid, population growth has meant these figures stay fairly steady, with the majority of people still using costly and unhealthy forms of energy for cooking and lighting.
