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This increases the public's suspicion of political parties, not least because--like all professional sports--playing the game is
expensive.
A solution to antimicrobial resistance need not be
expensive.
As the two sides collide, the country suffers: the outcome of the water war has meant that the poor still use the same dirty and
expensive
water, while the result of the gas war could mean that we remain without new export revenues.
These trials, they point out, are
expensive.
Perhaps, but they are less
expensive
than continuing to support projects that do no good.
The irony is that donors then respond with very
expensive
emergency food aid, which typically proves to be too little and too late.
Yet donors continue shipping
expensive
food aid while ignoring Malawi’s desperate need to grow more food.
For example, ruinously
expensive
“payday loans” can be appealing to cash-strapped borrowers, even if the terms of these loans tend to push people deeper into debt.
A second cause for worry is that the world is poised to enter a new nuclear age that threatens to be even more dangerous and
expensive
than the Cold War era of mutually assured destruction (MAD).
The net result of fiscal and monetary policy moving in opposite directions is that the Fed will make the government debt created by this legislation more
expensive.
These “Red Bonds” would make borrowing beyond 60% of GDP more expensive, thereby enhancing fiscal discipline and reinforcing the targets set by the Stability and Growth Pact.
Expensive
quick fixes to increase energy security are crowding out other important priorities in Central and Eastern Europe, such as long-term investment in tertiary education and research, and much-needed improvements in dilapidated health-care systems.
Yes, the seeds are more expensive, but the rise in production offsets the additional cost.
Shipping goods overland from China to Europe is still twice as
expensive
as trade by sea.
This is a very expensive, unwieldy way to achieve a very small reduction in temperatures.
Currently, low-carbon energy solutions are prohibitively
expensive.
By spending just 8% of this amount, the Russian army could match its
expensive
new weapons with soldiers who are able and willing to handle them well.
Maintaining the world’s fifth-largest army in a perpetual state of combat readiness is crushingly
expensive
for one of its poorest countries, with the military budget claiming an estimated one-third of GDP.
But, for investment banks, shadow banks, and especially commercial banks (with their
expensive
networks of branches and ATMs), such a policy makes it very difficult to report regular and healthy operating profits on their quarterly income statements and regular and healthy gains in their clients’ portfolios.
Piped water and sanitation networks are
expensive.
There are, moreover, alternatives to
expensive
network infrastructure systems.
UnionPay, the market leader, is
expensive
for retailers to install, and many shops prefer cash to avoid tax.
At the same time, growing numbers of traditional source countries for students, from South Korea to Saudi Arabia, are trying to improve both the quantity and quality of their own degrees, engaging in a fierce – and
expensive
– race to recruit students and create world-class research universities of their own.
But the innovations pioneered by Bitcoin can – and therefore should – play a transformative role in building a safer, less expensive, and more effective financial system.
The big bills incurred by
expensive
diagnostics and hospital stays are covered in large part or altogether.
Many
expensive
treatments are beneficial.
Indeed, Hong Kong is now the most
expensive
city on the planet.
Leung has advocated that young people leave Hong Kong to work in less
expensive
countries.
The ethical question is whether a solution like this would be fair on a global level, especially if the result is more
expensive
food.
And some of them engage constructively in debates about the real issues: how to control health-care costs, prevent future financial crises, and end America’s
expensive
foreign wars.
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