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Yet we dither, taking no action to deflect the asteroid, even though the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes."
Wars are expensive.
Even more expensive.
I was introduced to Mrs. Casey, who ran the school newspaper, and I was for three and a half years the cartoonist for my school paper, handling such heavy issues as, seniors are mean, freshmen are nerds, the prom bill is so expensive.
They're likely to be more expensive.
Spending per student only explains about, well, less than 20 percent of the performance variation among countries, and Luxembourg, for example, the most expensive system, doesn't do particularly well.
So you ask yourself, if education has become so much more expensive, has it become so much better?
The biggest challenge is that material science is complex and requires expensive equipment.
CA: I mean, this is a beautiful but expensive car.
The goal of Tesla has always been to have a sort of three-step process, where version one was an expensive car at low volume, version two is medium priced and medium volume, and then version three would be low price, high volume.
CA: Definitely more expensive.
In water pipes, we have fixed-capacity water pipes that have fixed flow rates, except for expensive pumps and valves.
These are scenarios where it's difficult to build, our current construction techniques don't work, it's too large, it's too dangerous, it's expensive, too many parts.
So this isn't expensive pumps or valves.
In fact, these professionals were miracle workers, but they're working in a flawed, expensive system that's set up the wrong way.
We have got to untether clinicians and patients from the notion of traveling to a special bricks-and-mortar place for all of our care, because these places are often the wrong tool, and the most expensive tool, for the job.
The longer I stayed in the hospital, the sicker I became, and the more expensive it became, and this happens to millions of people around the world every year.
Uncoordinated care today is expensive at best, and it is deadly at worst.
Actually, a building is about the most expensive solution you can think of to almost any given problem.
The teachers always say, well, it's fine, but it's too expensive for what it does.
If you want to sell huge volumes of somewhat expensive goods to people, you really want a large, stable, prosperous middle class.
No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.
For example, these were state-of-the-art weapons systems in 1400 A.D. Now they were both very expensive to build and maintain, but with these you could dominate the populace, and the distribution of political power in feudal society reflected that.
What is worse is that it is very expensive.
But also, it's extremely expensive, costing 800 dollars per test, and it's grossly inaccurate, missing 30 percent of all pancreatic cancers.
This makes it 168 times faster, over 26,000 times less expensive, and over 400 times more sensitive than our current standard for pancreatic cancer detection.
"No, honestly," he went on, "it's only three hours away by car, and it's not very expensive, and it's probably not like anywhere you've stayed before."
Very expensive, they throw them out for money, then cutting trees again.
So Steve the I.T. guy invited me out to one of Philadelphia's white-table-cloth, extremely expensive restaurants.
Reducing pollution is expensive, therefore businesses don't want to do it.
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