Alas, a quick and arguably necessary adjustment cost her a couple of points, but she earned worldwide admiration for grace under pressure. (womensvoicesforchange.org)
However, more than all of this increase was attributable to the recording of liabilities of $ 2.2 billion in federal assistance to Quebec for sales tax harmonization and $ 0.9 billion for the estimated workforce adjustment costs associated with the 2012 Budget employee reductions. (3dpolicy.ca)
What they showed is that «Hedging effectively «buys insurance» against future adjustment costs and is extremely robust across most possible futures, especially when compared with a wait - and - see strategy that would eschew mitigation over the first third of this century.» (realclimate.org)