With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, the country has just embarked upon one costly and complicated exercise in health-care reform based upon private insurance, the consequences of which won't be clear for years.
This week, when the most savage spending cuts for generations were revealed, you might assume it is time to downsize your holiday expectations, rather than embark upon a costly circumnavigation of the globe.
"Even those prospective arms purchasers in the developing world with significant financial assets have exercised restraint and caution before embarking upon new and costly weapons procurement endeavors," he wrote.
Traditionally, the development of crashworthiness composites design relies upon laborious and costly experimental testing.
Regulators said the review process, which sought to determine if specific loans were unfairly foreclosed upon, was too costly and time-consuming.
Recent discussions have emphasised the importance of studying fundamental dose response relationships in the field of cancer chemoprevention followed by extended biomarker-driven phase II efficacy trials in humans prior to embarking upon large, long, costly phase III risk reduction trials with cancer end-points (Alberts et al, 2005; Meyskens and Szabo, 2005).
Now that the budget-conscious post-holiday season is upon us, these less costly versions are particularly appealing.
Barack Obama has suggested that the pipeline be rerouted to allay the fears of tribes but Energy Transfer Partners has vowed to push ahead and has accused the federal government of imposing costly delays upon the project.
Another is the Delta Connection Academy, which is quite costly, but upon completing the course, you may be offered an entry-level interview as a pilot instructor, which may later lead to a job with Delta connection.
To make matters worse, they have also found that "employees who travel internationally are four-times as expensive as those who don't, simply because they often forget to turn off more costly roaming features upon their return".
