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It seems to me that after all the good and bad experiences America has had in the 20th century, it should understand that the most effective, most ethical, and in the end, the least
expensive
way of dealing with these challenges is to invest all its intellectual potential and a significant share of its material strength into what I call "security prevention".
Foreign investment is also declining, and local production is paralyzed, necessitating
expensive
imports.
Maybe not, but Americans will certainly find global hegemony a lot more
expensive
if the dollar falls off its perch.
The Disappearing SkySome months ago, an American astronaut accidentally let a tool escape into orbit, eliciting concern about its hazardous potential as a hurtling object that could destroy an
expensive
satellite or even threaten lives aloft.
Conflicts take a terrible human toll, while restoring peace and supporting reconstruction is extremely
expensive.
News outlets should forego expensive, flashy projects if they do little to further audiences’ understanding of a story.
In fact, thousands of migrants cross Asia’s numerous and porous frontiers each year with the help of
expensive
brokers who secure their passage.
Manafort also maintained several
expensive
homes – in northern Virginia, Brooklyn, the Hamptons, Palm Beach Gardens, and of course Trump Tower.
But the prosecutors’ real goal was to show that Manafort paid for these goods – nearly $1 million in suits from the world’s most
expensive
tailors, high-priced antique rugs, lamps, and electronic equipment – by wire transfers from offshore bank accounts, such as one in Cyprus.
Time will tell, but the key point is this: the thalidomide disaster of the 1950's and 1960's happened because there was no independent control of drug safety, whereas the anti-depressant crisis has grown under the aegis of an elaborate, expensive, and global regulatory system.
Practicing more precision medicine than intuitive medicine will make health care simpler, more accessible, and less
expensive.
Extending life is costly both because the technology itself can be expensive, but also because it often is extremely labor intensive in countries where labor is not cheap.
Faced with bloated fiscal deficits, today's newly cost-conscious welfare states are economizing in the use of
expensive
life-extending technologies.
Apparently, Dutch doctors are letting their patients die the old-fashioned way, rather than use the
expensive
new techniques to prolong their lives.
Most member states, including Germany, have violated the first rule, surreptitiously or not, while for several the second rule has been overwhelmed by
expensive
financing packages.
At the era’s height, major financial players built vastly
expensive
collections of highly abstract modern art.
This is partly because there are much more effective ways to tackle problems like tuberculosis or access to contraception, and partly because current anti-corruption policies are
expensive
and do little or no good.
A full-blown official bailout of Greece’s public sector (by the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Financial Stability Facility) would be the mother of all moral-hazard plays: extremely
expensive
and politically near-impossible, owing to resistance from core eurozone voters – starting with the Germans.
In a nutshell: Ireland’s policymakers failed to supervise their banks, and watched (or cheered) from the sidelines as a debt-fueled spending binge generated the “Celtic miracle,” whereby Ireland grew faster than all other EU members and Dublin real estate became some of the most
expensive
in the world.
Slavery did not succeed in keeping labor costs down because the slaves themselves were
expensive.
Part of the answer may be technological: technologies that require effort that is hard to observe, or that use
expensive
and fragile equipment, may be inappropriate for slavery.
Of course not, pet grooming is
expensive
in rich parts of Boston and cheap in poor parts, just as haircuts are.
As a result, research and development in genetic engineering is more expensive, discouraging investment and hampering innovation.
Moreover, it would reduce the fiscal burden on taxpayers in immigration countries, thereby preventing a competitive dismantling of West European welfare states driven by the aim of warding off
expensive
immigration.
Providing a "development shortcut" that leads directly to photovoltaic or nuclear electricity generators, not coal-fired power stations, high-performance materials, not steel mills, and cellular telephone networks, not
expensive
fixed-line systems, would clearly benefit us all.
If we want to reduce hurricane damage, should we focus primarily on a very cheap solution that would enable us to handle storm surges much better within a few years, or on an incredibly
expensive
solution that would require almost a hundred years to avoid nine millimeters of 7.5-meter surges?The morally defensible answer is clear, and it has nothing to do with immediate reductions in CO2 emissions.
If we want to reduce hurricane damage, should we focus primarily on a very cheap solution that would enable us to handle storm surges much better within a few years, or on an incredibly
expensive
solution that would require almost a hundred years to avoid nine millimeters of 7.5-meter surges?
The Idiocy of Olympic ValuesNEW YORK – It should surprise no one that the preparations for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, turned out to be wildly
expensive
and riddled with corruption.
But while a relatively long patent term may be appropriate for pharmaceutical innovations, which involve protracted and
expensive
testing, the case is less clear-cut for most other industries.
Recent studies show that financial incentives to promote earlier retirement are sometimes powerful, so much so that continuing to work becomes a prohibitively
expensive.
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