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Solar and wind energy depend on considerable subsidies because in most contexts, they remain more
expensive
than fossil fuels.
This would still be much cheaper than the Paris agreement, which requires the rollout of expensive, inefficient energy.
Bailouts become more
expensive
and – as in the case of Iceland – may actually be unaffordable.
When students from poor families start to fail in school, they have little or no access to remedial classes, whereas the rich receive
expensive
coaching from private tutors throughout their education.
The trend is reinforced as elections become more
expensive
in both countries, leaving politicians increasingly dependent on contributions from wealthy donors who demand policies that are favorable to their interests.
They send their children to elite private schools, are treated in
expensive
private hospitals, and live in gated communities where security and other services are provided privately.
The EU’s enlargement policy is not merely some expensive, expendable annoyance; it is a vital component of the EU’s security and outward projection of power.
Members of the Sharif family, it was revealed, had illegally transferred huge amounts of money into numerous offshore companies, which had then invested in
expensive
properties in London and the Middle East.
If people feel rich and enjoy growing wages and appreciating assets, they are less inclined to cannibalize other spending when commodity consumption becomes more
expensive.
They pay for the
expensive
campaigns of presidents and congressmen, so presidents and congressmen help the rich – often at the expense of the rest of society.
It is part of the everyday life of many citizens – even part of their identities – that they suffer from an
expensive
health problem.
Many will develop
expensive
health problems in the future.
Many statistical lives – your own, perhaps – could be saved by excluding future payment for some
expensive
medical treatment (say, hemodialysis) for those who are now healthy and reallocating the funds to cheap but effective prevention programs.
This means that, even if the US dollar depreciates, it does not become more
expensive
for US importers to buy Japanese goods, so there is limited incentive to switch from Japanese to US goods.
But the elevation of the Social Chapter, previously a list of good intentions, to the status of fundamental constitutional rights, threatens to encumber workers and businesses in the member states with burdensome judicial proceedings and
expensive
social entitlements written by judges in Luxembourg whose last word is beyond appeal.
While water obviously shouldn’t become an
expensive
luxury good, governments’ reluctance to charge appropriately for it has undermined their ability to invest in water utilities, including proper wastewater collection and treatment.
That is why Republican candidates – for the presidency, the House, and the Senate – want to roll back President Barack Obama’s tax and spending increases,
expensive
health-care reform, and regulatory overreach.
Setting out for the Western Territory was
expensive.
Cutting emissions now is much more expensive, because there are few,
expensive
alternatives to fossil fuels.
Tol strikingly shows that grand promises of drastic, immediate carbon cuts – reminiscent of the call for 80% reductions by mid-century that some politicians and lobbyists make – are an incredibly
expensive
way of doing very little good.
We know from experience that it is perfectly feasible to target a 70% reduction in child mortality, but that doing so will be expensive, requiring the construction of effective health services to deliver high-quality care before, during, and after birth.
Instead of one GST rate, as in most countries, India will have four: 5%, 12%, 18%, and 28%, plus a 0% rate for items like food grains, cereal, and fresh milk, and a luxury tax (43% and more) on
expensive
cars and other high-end consumer items.
It is less disruptive and much less
expensive
to maintain potential asylum-seekers in or close to their present location.
The current patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems does not work: it is expensive, inefficient, and produces wildly inconsistent results in determining who qualifies for asylum.
They buy
expensive
toys to maximize their child’s learning potential and spend much more on private schools or after school tutoring in the hope that he or she will excel on the tests that determine entry to elite universities.
The results buck “the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive,” says Kempton.“For example,” according to Budischak, “using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meet a need of 72 gigawatts, 99.9 % of the time, using 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of inland wind.”
At the time, maritime navigation was based on a combination of science, experience, and luck, making it difficult, expensive, and dangerous, especially for those – such as the British government – bearing the financial burden of devastating shipwrecks and lost fleets.
Incautious and
expensive
advice from McKinsey and other private consulting firms could help turn Bhutan into a degraded tourist zone.
While these measures tend to be modest revenue generators, they make the affected medicines more expensive, which can put them out of reach for many who need them most.
For example, a bill in the state legislature would offset the new federal tax law’s limit on state income- and property-tax deductions – a provision that will hit California hard because it has one of the highest tax rates in the country, and its residents own
expensive
homes.
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