Expensive
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It knows that the bureaucratic apparatus remains outrageously large, and that civil servants retain numerous
expensive
perks - cars, dachas, medical services, and more - while most ordinary Russians scrape by on meager wages and vegetable gardens.
This, too, would prove to be an
expensive
failure.
German voters balk at any suggestion that we should limit the environmental damage caused by big and
expensive
cars.
With exports of manufactures becoming more expensive, China will have to grow by producing something else.
Elected officials hard-wired misleading projections by excising from current law
expensive
policies that they had every intention of pursuing.
The biggest impact on market structure will continue to come from ever-rising capital requirements, which will make bank credit more
expensive
and encourage borrowers to look elsewhere.
The craving for expensive, technologically sophisticated care is noteworthy.
The more advanced (and expensive) the care, the higher the risk.
Saudi Arabia expected a messy, protracted, and
expensive
war, and that is what it has gotten.
High information and transaction costs contribute to the perception that investing in SMEs is complicated and
expensive.
But policymakers need to concentrate on increasing access to more nutritious foods, such as meat, fruit, and vegetables, which are too
expensive
for the poor.
But offshore wind power is so
expensive
that it will receive at least three times the traded cost of regular electricity in subsidies – more than even solar power, which was never at an advantage in the UK.
Most vaccines and medications are currently too
expensive
for the majority of Africans.
In many of the world’s urban centers, homes are becoming prohibitively
expensive
for people with moderate incomes.
As such people depart, an
expensive
city gradually becomes an enclave of high-income households, and begins to take on their values.
Next come London and Toronto – at 8.5 and 7.7, respectively – where housing is extremely expensive, but incomes are also high.
Robots are becoming both less
expensive
and more efficient, while manufacturers need to make up for labor shortages in several advanced and emerging economies.
And since payments for signatures are expensive, corruption is a high cost of doing business.
Revaluation of the renminbi would make it more
expensive
for foreign firms to establish themselves (or expand) in China – the world’s most dynamic market – and would render exports of foreign affiliates, which account for 54% of total exports, less competitive internationally.
The quality of China’s roads and telecommunication puts to shame Thailand’s uneven, badly maintained streets and its slow and
expensive
Internet service.
The Instability of InequalityNEW YORK – This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London;Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squeeze on living standards; protesting Chilean students; the destruction in Germany of the
expensive
cars of “fat cats”;India’s movement against corruption; mounting unhappiness with corruption and inequality in China; and now the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York and across the United States.
Developing new antibiotics is difficult and
expensive
– and, crucially, far less profitable than investments in other important fields, such as cancer and diabetes.
He liked his hair long, his motorcycles powerful, his cars expensive, his attire sequined, and his women clingy.
But nuclear weapons, unusable and extremely
expensive
to maintain, are low-hanging fruit – a risk that we can easily grasp and eliminate.
Reshaping the US health-care system to focus on successful outcomes and quality of life, rather than on employing the newest and most
expensive
technology, is a challenge for which no one yet has a proven solution.
Indeed, if you search online for a more
expensive
car or a more
expensive
vacation, that fact will be documented by tracking cookies or other means of online surveillance.
And with these data, digital advertisers and retailers will offer you more
expensive
watches, home furnishings, or airline tickets than they would to a lower-income user searching within the same categories.
In the wake of this failed experiment, even Harrison was forced to acknowledge that reining in the market required policymakers to make lending more
expensive
for the financial sector as a whole.
Essential medicines and technologies for diagnosing and treating heart disease, cancer, and respiratory ailments are also significantly less available and proportionally more
expensive
for people in low- and middle-income countries than they are for those in the rich world.
When tortillas become more expensive, a poor Mexican worker may eat more of them, because she now has to cut back on more
expensive
food like meat.
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