Delaying necessary maintenance and repairs can increase their costs exponentially, and excessive delays can turn manageable repair work into a costly replacement project.
Related: Death rate rises as cold snap grips UK This isn't just a problem of chilly toes or the odd extra sniffle: cold homes make healthy people seriously ill and turn manageable conditions like asthma, or high blood pressure, into life-threatening ones.
(Anchor, $16). Millard, whose previous book, "The River of Doubt," concerned Theodore Roosevelt's near-fatal journey of exploration in South America, here examines the turmoil that led to James A. Garfield's election, the lunacy that got him shot and the medical malfeasance that turned a manageable wound into a mortal one.
In the poorest countries, a lack of data and information turns relatively manageable phenomena into unexpected events and catastrophes and makes rapid economic progress nearly impossible.
Euro-zone leaders succeeded in turning a manageable economic problem in Greece into a political conundrum that jeopardises the single currency.
There is no more unreliable reliever in the Mets' bullpen these days than Guillermo Mota, who allowed three runs in the seventh inning to turn a manageable 4-2 definto into a 7-2 margin within the space of four batters.
The goats, which can jump higher than a man's height and even scale tilting tree trunks, she said, are particularly good at removing the intermediate growth and branches that firefighters call the "fire ladder," by which flames sweeping through grass can climb a tree and jump through the canopy, turning a manageable fire into an inferno.
Such an increase in ocean levels on a permanent basis turns a manageable crisis into many more full-blown disasters.
Then, it turned out pretty manageable — some good even came of it.
Imagine the essence of that inexperience, distilled and digitized and turned into a manageable property.
Imagine the essence of that inexperience, distilled and digitised and turned into a manageable property.
