Sentences with phrase «at huge cost by»

The Japanese utility TEPCO, which went bankrupt and was bailed out at huge cost by the people of Japan, continues to pump out very radioactive water, to be stored in an ever - increasing vast tank farm on the site.

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In every case a huge amount of fixed costs up front is overwhelmed by the ongoing ability to make money at scale; to put it another way, tech companies combine fixed costs with marginal revenue opportunities, such that they make more money on additional customers without any corresponding rise in costs.

In other words, consumers» rather modest gains have been far surpassed by the profits reaped by corporations making stuff in China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goods.

The Japanese group said cost overruns at U.S. power projects handled by the CB&I Stone & Webster Inc business it acquired last December from Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV (CB&I) would be much greater than initially expected, potentially requiring a huge writedown.

Sure Shanghai is not the only Chinese city that planned or have installed huge number of surveillance cameras, according to a 2011 Chinanews.com report, the southwestern city of Chongqing had set a goal to install a half - million cameras by the end of 2012 at a cost of 20 billion RMB.

At a time when clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City received huge financial backing from rich owners, Arsenal instead chose to invest in their long - term future by building the 60,000 - seater Emirates Stadium; a project of immense cost, which severely hit Arsenal's short - term financial capabilities.

Real Madrid Bayern, Juve are huge clubs yet they all failed to win the ECL So is Arsenal right by saying is saying the cost to compete at the top is far too high and the odds of winning are too low?

In Spain Panis was reeling Villeneuve in at a huge rate of knots but got severely held up by traffic on multiple occasions, costing him his chance at victory.

Instead, the huge Pathfindersystem that underpinned the Universal Credit trial phase was supplied by HP, Accenture, IBM and BT and ran into serious trouble at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds.

«The I Lift NY super crane can lift the equivalent of 12 Statues of Liberty at once, and its ability to lift huge modular components of the new bridge into place and to help dismantle the old bridge will reduce construction time by months and reduce project costs by millions of dollars.»

Eventually implemented by 2013, at a huge cost (between # 2.5 bn and # 4bn), it created Care Commissioning Groups, supposedly run by consortia of GPs.

It also expresses «real concerns» that the expansion of the ISTC programme - at a planned cost of more than # 5 billion in total - could «destabilise» NHS trusts in the area by taking away a huge amount of their funding.

«Indorama - Nigeria is 100 percent committed to the growth and development of the Nigerian economy; and has in the past ten years demonstrated such total commitment and loyalty by providing more than 85 % domestic needs of polymers which were hitherto imported into the country at huge foreign exchange cost.»

Likewise, over the past decade, no new drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to help the 5 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease, a number expected to grow dramatically in the coming years, at a huge cost to the U.S. economy as well as to American families.

Debate about the border wall advocated by President Trump to run along the southern border of the United States has focused on the structure's security effectiveness and cost, but experts at the AAAS Science Diplomacy 2017 conference described a huge set of interrelated challenges in the region, including multiple environmental concerns that have often been confronted bilaterally.

He said it was «mystifying» why so many primary schools that are judged good or outstanding by Ofsted will now be converted «at huge cost».

But it's really not as sensible as Rampell says: Taxpayers in plenty of states have fully funded teachers» pensions at a huge cost already, at least by highly optimistic government accounting rules.

I think Volkswagen looked at our country and determined that nobody gives a damn about cars and the huge cost cuts wouldn't be noticed by consumers.

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Because the federal estate tax imposes a lump sum obligation upon by the estate that is payable within 9 months of the date of death, a huge estate planning objective has been to avoid it at all costs.

While at first glance, it appears that holding HXS will cost roughly twice the Management Fee of 24 basis points charged by the iShares S&P 500 C$ Hedged ETF (XSP), investors should keep in mind that HXS avoids two huge problems with XSP.

The bird and dung beetle losses that occur during logging are not trivial, and our results should not be used to suggest that, by logging primary forests, governments could gain huge financial profits at little cost to biodiversity.

That's because a working electricity system fueled mostly by wind turbines requires additional massive costs that a fossil fuel system does not: huge excess capacity (perhaps 300 - 400 %) to deal with conditions of light wind; gigantic batteries to store power for conditions of no wind at all, which can persist for days; extra transmission lines to bring electricity from windier areas to the rest of the country; and finally, an entire array of fossil fuel back - up plants for those occasions when the wind doesn't blow for a week and the batteries are dead.

I conclude that for the past 33 years there has been an increase of no more than 0,3 deg C, which would represent a «global warming» trend of around 0.9 C per century, due to unknown factors related to the Sun, and surly nothing to warrant a huge economic disruption caused by a fanatical U.S. war on carbon aimed at driving up the cost of conventional fuels aimed at unnecessarily reducing their consumption.

The report did not address the clear and voluminous evidence presented two years earlier by Williams and the coalition that not only were there significant technical and environmental problems and huge cost overruns at the incinerators, but that safer alternative disposal methods were available.

The huge scientific uncertainty about the cost of inaction has obscured a surprisingly strong economic consensus about the economic cost of stabilising global CO2 concentrations at the levels currently being debated by national governments, that is, in the range 450 - 550 ppm.

Let's figure out what this is all going to cost,» and it would have taken six months at the least, and it would've been a huge, expensive undertaking, and by the time it got done who knows if it would've helped anything?

A brand - new apartment complex, «professionally» managed by a huge management company, has refused to provide details on how much it'll cost to do lease reassignment, with the rationale being that they've never had to do it yet at this very complex, and thus they'll only know how much they'll be charging for it once someone requests it.

While fears still run high across the legal sector that AI will have an impact on jobs — and ACE will do a huge amount of work for BLP currently undertaken by paralegals and associates — according to Whalley it will not cost anyone at BLP a job.

Driving without car insurance is illegal and can leave you at risk of being sued and having to take out huge loans to cover costs incurred by your actions.

Save on the roaming costs and that huge bill of data usage by choosing economic plans that are usually available at the airport.

The funds have a huge advantage over small operations because their cost of money is so low and in some cases backed by the government at 1 % interest.

Compuserve, AOL, etc. used to be giant internet companies that generated huge internet traffic numbers but the internet passed them by and their models didn't prove usefull to their users anymore, much like Realtor.ca The business has changed so that individual Realtors now have the power to do what Realtor.ca was doing for them at a time the individual Realtor couldn't, because the technology didn't exist at a reasonable cost to do so.

I pay huge, in both time and money, as many others do, to be in organized real estate — NOT to be in unorganized real estate where promoting, at the cost of our licensed and expensive livelihood» For Sale By Owner» properties who want to eliminate the paid professionals.