With its high fixed cost structure, UNOPS has found it difficult to operate smaller, transaction intensive services on the basis of full cost recovery.

It has been shown to increase walking speed, although its high cost (over 1000 dollars a month) limits its usage.

The ETS has achieved its objective of reducing emissions by the required amount at least cost.

It has also cost a lot of money.

Cost of living The cost of goods in Alaska has long been higher than in the contiguous 48 states.

Its passivity cost Japan the trust of the international community.

The world market prices oil according to its opportunity cost.

has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

China s rapid growth has been achieved at extremely high cost.

The human cost of these passages has been dramatically high.

Overview NIE has its roots in two articles by Ronald Coase, The Nature of the Firm (1937) and The Problem of Social Cost (1960).

Water has a cost, and someone, either end users or taxpayers, has to pay it.

This is obviously a hefty price tag at least a 50 increase in the total cost of the EU and it will likely be much higher (the Commission has previously estimated the cost to be double its current estimate).

Doing so will raise the cost of imports and lower the cost of exports, leading to an improvement in its trade balance.

It hasn't worked, its cost us all billions and its getting more expensive year on year!

They would discover that the cost to Germany of authorizing Eurobonds has been greatly exaggerated, and the cost of leaving the euro understated.

Best of all, none of these achievements has cost a single euro.

Cost benefit analysis has led many to declare it a failed policy.

The largest cost of this mismanaged war has been borne by Iraq.

As for 2005, the cost so far has exceeded US 2,670 million.

The cost of the unused tickets has been reimbursed to the Organization.

The risk analysis will of course include the cost of having the signature made more reliable and the cost of its being not genuine.

While continuing to provide a range of service lines, UNOPS will rationalize and streamline its corporate and support structures to reduce its fixed cost base, introduce activity based costing, and price its services to ensure full cost recovery.

According to Rowhani and Velayati, while Iran in recent years has increased the number of centrifuges in use in its nuclear research program, the cost has been an economically devastating array of international sanctions.

Internally, mandatory retirements will soon cost the Agency 50 of its senior management.

The cost of complexity and targeting has dropped, even as the demand for return on assets has increased.

Novartis has agreed to make these medicines available at the cost of production.

As for me, my war against cockroaches has not come without a cost.

Outsourcing of medical SDS has proven to be more efficient and cost effective.

Peacebuilding has a high cost, which is generally spread out over several years.

Mexico is consumed by its failed drug war, which has cost more than 25,000 lives and, according to just published US government statistics, has deterred Colombian cocaine traffickers, but has fostered dramatic increases in Mexican production of heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamines.

In paragraph 54 of its report, the Board recommended that the Fund further request the United Nations Secretariat to liquidate its cost sharing obligations, and seek a new procedure to account for cost sharing arrangements.

Worldwide, HIV incidence has fallen by one third, and the cost of HIV drugs has dropped more than 99 .

Italy, for instance, would see its average borrowing cost decline from the current 4.3 .

Myth 1 The cost of protection and its flipside, gains from trade, are negligible.

Sustaining investment, on the other hand, has an immediate cost it means deferring consumption.

The cost of pesticides for farmers has increased 13 fold in the same period.

The economic cost associated with natural disasters has increased 14 fold since the 1950s.

The fighting cost Hamas two of its top leaders, Saeed Siyam and Nizar Rayan, and significantly weakened its military capabilities.

Furthermore, to keep operating expenditures under control UNOPS must reorganize its internal operations and restructure its cost base in 2006.

Good plumbers cost a small fortune, because here, too, the technology has evolved very slowly.

It produces 50 60 dramas a month its value chain produces faster service at low cost and it understands its market.

Encouraged by the relative ease with which goods can be transported by sea and its cost effectiveness, sea transport has become the choice for the continued violations of the arms embargo.

Haiti will continue to rely on the support of the international community in order to strengthen its democratic institutions, because it has been precisely our shortcomings in that area that has cost us so much disruption in recent decades.

7. Encourages the International Law Commission to continue taking cost saving measures at its future sessions