Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

Undesirable systems, such as dictatorships and saline landscapes, can be very resilient.

They place a high value on interpersonal relationships and group members are a very close knit community.

Further, Iraq argues that the average treatment costs claimed by Kuwait are too high.

The initial installation cost of a nuclear power plant may be high its operating costs, however, are relatively low and stable.

Adding up the cost of the transfer, travel, and time, remittances are far too expensive for people living in poverty.

In an environment of ultra low interest rates, the economic cost of being late is low.

Business investment is also weak, even though large corporations have very high cash balances.

Fukushima showed that the risk of nuclear power is too high, which in turn has also increased the costs of this energy form.

And, because globalization places such a high premium on the provision of information, that process itself is subject to extortion.

The remaining portion of the target is driven inward, eventually compressing it into a small point of extremely high density.

One is that they are very costly or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.

We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high.

When the crisis began, production costs in Greece were about 30 higher than in Germany, so Greece exported very little and imported very much.

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

Her training is very expensive, and her debt must be repaid to the okiya with the earnings she makes.

And then we realized our probe was made out of the same stuff it could have melted. But it turns out the exiting temperature was 650 degrees F, hot enough to melt lead.

In contrast, Masculinity is very high in Japan (95), and in European countries like Hungary, Austria and Switzerland influenced by German culture.

Road safety has a high profile in Australia and is a prominent focus of public policy at all levels of Government.

High and rising inflation creates great costs and is difficult to reverse.

And countries facing depressions and rapidly weakening inflation typically face very low borrowing costs investors purchase government bonds for want of profitable alternatives.

Banks loaded up on the relatively high yield debt of countries like Greece because they had to set aside very little capital.

Long term government bond yields are already very low, and a further reduction will not significantly change private agents borrowing costs.

The route crosses major earthquake zones, and is subjected to extreme temperatures of cold and heat and inhospitable terrain, making it an extremely challenging engineering project.

Health costs can be very high, so health insurance schemes are a popular way reducing risk in the event of shock.

Zero ongoing communication costs. Highly scalable you can just keep adding them, and as in Katrina, you can keep subtracting them as long as there's some, we can still communicate.

But what is clear is that the Obama strategy s current and future costs are very high and so far, it has not achieved its limited objective of restarting lending.

These inferior substitutes often imply exorbitant costs for borrowers and financing that is usually too short term for productive investment activity.

So we got this incredible video system. It's very new technology it just came out about a year ago that allows you to film at extremely high speeds in low light.

Recent studies have shown that those subjects who have an extremely high occurrence of PVCs (several thousand a day) can develop dilated cardiomyopathy.

On this bedrock rose an imposing edifice of bond markets and banks that drove down the cost of finance, and thus sped up the rate of economic growth.

The world cannot afford an expensive competition in outer space when there remain so many challenges before us, such as poverty, hunger, disease and deprivation.

As enterprises seek to reduce operational costs, they have the option to outsource non core activities to countries that can provide a high level of service with much lower labour costs.

Technology has helped thoroughly globalize chess, with the Indian Vishy Anand now the first Asian world champion, and the handsome young Norwegian Magnus Carlsen having reached rock star status.

Even when developing country governments win the suits (which have proliferated greatly in the last 15 years), the litigation costs are huge.

Middle income families also insist on buying homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.

One reason that interest rate spreads in financial markets remain high is that distressed eurozone countries growth prospects look so weak.

Moreover, given that the plants are already paid for, waste facilities are already in place, and the high decommissioning cost will have to be paid regardless of timing, the actual operating costs are very low half or lower per kilowatt hour than the cost of the cheapest fossil fuels.

The waves are high.

The expectations are high.

Not only will those loans price fall if only a few entities have the spare funds to buy them, but other distressed entities scramble to borrow also will make it hard for any institution without funds to obtain them. Anticipating the prospect of such future fire sales (of loans, financial assets, or institutions), it is understandable that even strong banks will restrict their lending to very short maturities, and their investments to extremely liquid securities.

The problem for post WWII Europe, mired in depression and inflation, was that it lacked foreign reserves, which meant that trade carried a high opportunity cost. To facilitate trade without requiring payment after each transaction, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation created the European Payments Union in 1950.

The third solution we recommend is very cheap, and has the most benefits related to costs Latin American countries need to make it cheaper and easier to move goods across national borders.

Their morale is high.

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