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It's too expensive to have a safe working environment, therefore business makes more money if they don't have a safe working environment.
Accidents are expensive and costly.
And so, I think that the lesson that we have from New York is that it's possible to change your streets quickly, it's not expensive, it can provide immediate benefits, and it can be quite popular.
It was also an expensive fight.
We can make products that are beautiful or ugly, sustainable or unsustainable, affordable or expensive, functional or useless.
And this is not only creating physical sameness, it's creating social sameness, because these buildings are more expensive to build, and it helped to create an affordability crisis in cities all over the world, including places like Vancouver.
They're very expensive and they've got all sorts of other challenges associated with them, and we tend to build multispan when we're crossing a wide estuary or a sea crossing.
The deep water means that foundations are prohibitively expensive.
You choose an expensive lab test, you choose to operate on an old and frail patient.
In the U.S. alone, there's more than four million miles of roads, very expensive to build, very expensive to maintain infrastructure, with a huge ecological footprint, and yet, very often, congested.
When we realized how much expensive it is to have a lot of neurons in the brain, I figured, maybe there's a simple reason.
And what we found is that because neurons are so expensive, there is a tradeoff between body size and number of neurons.
So because of cooking, what once was a major liability, this large, dangerously expensive brain with a lot of neurons, could now become a major asset, now that we could both afford the energy for a lot of neurons and the time to do interesting things with them.
Social impact bonds work great for any area where there is at the moment very expensive provision that produces poor outcomes for people.
And one thing is that it is also a very beautiful democratic symbol, because as buses zoom by, expensive cars stuck in traffic, it clearly is almost a picture of democracy at work.
Yes, we do actually have the technology, but it would be a long and expensive voyage, and we would get there so far from the Sun that the final approach trajectory would be very difficult.
But at 1,400 dollars, it's still too expensive for people like Kamal.
Now here's an example of a more expensive car, a Prius, driving through, and a BMW doing the same.
Close to 50 percent of the cars in our most expensive vehicle category broke the law.
It's very difficult to develop new drugs, and the reason it's difficult to develop new drugs is because in the early stages of drug development, the drugs are very risky, and they're very expensive.
We can push it one way, where we can take a vaccine that works but is too expensive and can get protection with a hundredth of the dose compared to the needle.
Yet, that vaccine is not available in large numbers because it's too expensive.
There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition.
They were unbelievably expensive to administer, they were time-consuming, they were limited to the local jurisdiction in which they'd been created.
All of this has only made satellites bigger and bigger and bigger and more expensive, now nearly a billion, with a b, dollars per copy.
Because they are so expensive, there aren't very many of them.
Why do these things have to be so expensive?
It is very expensive to process this stuff, both in economic terms and in energy terms.
And helicopters can do that today, but traditionally, helicopters have been just a little bit too expensive, just a little too hard to pilot and just a little too noisy to be used for daily transportation in cities.
Now, drug development you might think of as a rather expensive but risky bet, and the odds of this bet are roughly this: they're 10,000 to one against, because you need to screen about 10,000 compounds to find that one potential winner.
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