Expense
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This may be bad for the distribution of wealth and income, because it will enrich the creditor at the
expense
of the debtor, but there will be no net burden on future generations.
Given the difficulty and
expense
of separating plastics, the most economically viable option is often secondary recycling of a few commodity thermoplastics – mostly bottles, for which collection infrastructure is already in place.
not counting the unlimited guarantees the ECB has given to the states of southern Europe through its OMT programme at the expense, and to the risk, of the taxpayers of Europe’s still-sound economies.
So, for four years, budget deficits – which do, of course, have to be addressed by long-term debt-reduction plans – have virtually monopolized economic-policy debate in Europe and America, at the
expense
of sensible discussions about growth, employment, and trade.
First, in the past, short-term macroeconomic stability was often achieved at the
expense
of structural adjustment and rational allocation of resources.
This is not to say that we should ignore opportunities to make energy more efficient, or that we should invest solely in RD&D at the
expense
of improvements to today’s grid.
Once pushing industrialization at the
expense
of agriculture, African leaders routinely ignored ordinary farmers.
When I look back at everything I have written since 2008, I find that I, too, have sometimes been too ready to push my favorite recipes at the
expense
of others.
Addressing such concerns will require us to show that we are not promoting some people at the
expense
of others; gender parity must be win-win, not zero-sum.
Moreover, the alleged “cost-savings” of nuclear power never include the price tag for direct and indirect governmental subsidies, decommissioning of aging facilities, and emergency clean-up and remediation of impacted communities when disasters occur – all, again, at taxpayers’
expense.
As University of Johannesburg scientist Laura Tensen has noted, “wild animals are considered superior because of their rarity and high expense.”
While Washington is still an exciting city for internationalists, in terms of the number of institutions like the Carnegie Endowment and the richness of its intellectual community the last capital city of the world, the country itself is increasingly shying away from anything that smacks of international responsibility, even at the
expense
of its own national interests.
Quarterly earnings cycles, real-time pricing, and constant scrutiny by shareholders have pushed pharmaceutical companies toward projects with clear, immediate payoffs – at the
expense
of more speculative, but potentially transformational research.
While the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual-assault charges now seems highly uncertain, the ensuing press focus on the IMF suggests an uncontrolled international bureaucracy with unlimited
expense
accounts, dominated by men with little sense of restraint.
Paulson’s plan would create a charitable institution that provides welfare to the rich – at taxpayers’
expense.
Globalization, these voters were told, benefits only those at the top – comfortable working with the rest of the world – at the
expense
of everyone else.
If anything, the
expense
to the city creates fiscal distress, implying a less favorable business environment in the future.
Similarly, when companies with billions of users scattered around the world suffer data breaches or choose to pursue profits at the
expense
of universal human rights, it is not currently clear who can hold them to account.
Russia is suffering from its decision to become a big energy producer at the
expense
of diversification.
Moreover, rapid expansion of university education all too often comes at the
expense
of quality.
This gap between rhetoric and action left a vacuum;Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and private donors subsequently filled it by channeling support to extremist elements of the opposition, strengthening their hand at the
expense
of those being called moderates.
Indeed, the mere thought that major shareholders’ debts would be forgiven at taxpayers’
expense
has created political paralysis for years.
The role of the Fourth Estate was particularly important during the administration of President George W Bush.Revelations of torture, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless electronic surveillance all depended on investigative journalism of a kind that is now threatened by budget cuts and the media’s relentless focus on whatever is current – often at the
expense
of what is genuinely newsworthy.
Progress in economic thought after 1929 initially led to the argument that, in a depression, tariffs are justified because they would divert insufficient aggregate world demand to one’s goods at the
expense
of others.
And when the president does go overseas, the US press often demands that he bring back tangible bounty, in the form of export deals, or assurances on some other immediate “deliverable” – in short, enough transactions to justify the
expense.
This will bring some benefits to some American autoworkers, at the
expense
of everybody else.
Now, US milk producers will enjoy some benefits, at the
expense
of their Canadian counterparts.
As Bloomberg succinctly put it, the data underscore how the world’s second-largest economy is “growing its influence in the region” at the
expense
of the US.
Aside from a humanitarian crisis, with thousands drowning each year trying to reach Europe and thousands more detained, there is the soaring
expense
of border controls and bureaucracy, a criminalized people-smuggling industry, and an expanding shadow economy, where illegal migrants are vulnerable to exploitation, labor laws are broken and taxes go unpaid.
Meanwhile, corporations are amassing market power at the
expense
of those at the bottom of the value chain: farmers and workers.
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