Sentences with phrase «at least the cost of»

Businesses with more than 100 locations, he says, may want to set aside «at least the cost of opening a new store into their mobile property as an initial investment — and half that again each year moving forward.»
By requiring homeowners to carry insurance for at least the cost of rebuilding the home, then, the lender and homeowner are both protected from disaster.
At least the cost of a full charge is low (around # 4 at current rates).
At least the cost of the popular $ 5950 PDK dual - clutch automatic option stays unchanged.
Although I don't recommend market - timing and individual security selection as a long - term investment strategy, at least the costs of doing so are less due to your low tax rates.
I am not sure if an intelligent buyer would go through all this trouble to buy the Titanic assets and also agree to the conditions set forth by the Judge — agree to keep the collection together and also allow it to be displayed to the public occasionally - while at the same time risking capital to earn enough revenue in order to offset at least the cost of maintenance of the assets.
For the card to have value, it needs to earn at least the cost of the annual fee, which is $ 39.

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Meanwhile, about half of all Americans have at least one chronic disease, which is accounting for 80 % of the healthcare costs.
So I think at least 100 people per trip is the right order of magnitude, and I think we may actually made up expanding the crew section and ultimately taking more like 200 more people per flight in order to reduce the cost per person.
Again, the cost of litigation is at least as great as the claims paid out, so make sure the legal defense costs coverage is ample.
Fifth in line to the throne, the new prince's arrival came at a lower cost than one might expect for a royal baby delivery — at least when compared to the cost of a similar delivery in the US.
Estimates suggest the trilateral attack, with a cost of about $ 1.4 million per missile, cost at least $ 147 million.
But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.
The idea, when it was unveiled in 2010, was to create a fiber network capable of gigabit speeds, or at least 100 times faster than what's on offer anywhere in North America, at a reasonable cost with unlimited usage.
The effect previously cost at least $ 100,000 to pull off and required a crane and hours of setup; Schmidt's camera array can pull it off for a few thousand dollars (the price of that many cameras), with one person operating it.
According to Pamela Stamataky, an associate with Tanguay - Burke - Stratton, a Chicago commercial real estate brokerage, corporate tenants have at least four negotiating options when it comes to handling the costs of «buildouts,» such as revamped wiring, new cabinetry, carpeting, and paint jobs:
Gail Patterson, director of Unlimited Future, says that since the cafés started, six business sponsors have contributed $ 500 each to defray marketing costs and to help ensure an award of at least $ 300 to the winning entrepreneur.
Tape backup, an analog process used to back up data, comes to at least $ 3,000 annually, including the cost of tapes and a monthly off - site rotation service.
The resulting standard of living in the most expensive urban area, Manhattan, was more than twice the national average at 223.9 percent, whereas the cost of living in the least expensive urban area is 20 percent below the national average.
Three hundred and sixty - five million dollars — that's the cost of freedom, at least if you're running Cara.
Most startups need to pivot at least once, so you need a limited rollout territory with a minimum viable product to keep the costs of corrections in line.
All of the proposed routes — Hyperloop One is currently weighing 10 of them — are at least 200 miles long, which would mean a minimum cost of roughly $ 20 billion.
So while the interests of fairness argue for a dramatic scaling back of seniors» discounts — or at least greater use of income testing to ensure only those in real financial need are accessing them — political dynamics are actually working to expand their scope and cost.
«Our base case forecast is that the macroeconomic cost of keeping the Euro - zone going will be a recession across most of Europe through at least the first half of 2012 and a prolonged period of subdued growth after that....»
If you can identify how they present themselves in an industry that's of interest, you can quickly build a low - cost solution (at least at the outset) that can scale massively as demand grows, ultimately leading to a very large and profitable business.
The 2018 Nissan Rogue, which I also tested recently, costs just $ 24,800 and is remarkably similar in terms of what you can load in the back, the overall feel on the road at least in terms of wind noise (a crossover is literally a cross between a full - size SUV and a car, but tends to drive more like an SUV), and even the fuel economy (around 33 highway for the Rogue, 28 highway for the Stelvio).
The recent bankruptcy filing of commercial lender CIT Group alone is expected to cost the Treasury at least US$ 2.3 billion.
The non-compounding costs of insecurity, for instance, seem non-obvious to this author, or at least conveniently simplified.
«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.
In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.
Paying for all of the costs associated with a detached home in the Vancouver area requires 121 per cent of median household income; for a condo, it's 46 per cent of income, making it Canada's least affordable city, according to economists at the Royal Bank of Canada.
This likely has at least a little to do with the below - average cost of living and the year - round warm temperatures.
The SBA describes the program thusly: «Typically, a 504 project includes a loan secured with a senior lien from a private - sector lender covering up to 50 percent of the project cost, a loan secured with a junior lien from the CDC (a 100 percent SBA - guaranteed debenture) covering up to 40 percent of the cost, and a contribution of at least 10 percent equity from the small business being helped.
However, you need to keep in mind, at least starting out, that if your monthly fee is up in the tens of thousands, the business could just as easily hire an agency to help them for that cost.
Retirees are being transferred to new health care plans, with no increase in premiums for this year, at least; a document sent to retirees by the company says the pensioners will bear the cost of any increases in premiums going forward, and that the company has the right to change the plan at any time.
The cost of higher education has only climbed over the years, so it's no surprise that millions of people turn to student loans to finance at least a portion of that cost.
Economists say that the plan, which would cost the government $ 2.7 billion a year, would give the most benefit to families who need it least and no benefit at all to 85 per cent of Canadian households.
Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.
The Lloyd's / Air Worldwide study concludes that the complete failure of a top cloud services provider that extends for at least three days would cost the U.S. economy $ 15 billion.
As of December 2016, a baseline Atlas 5 rocket launch was selling for about $ 109 million, though satellite operators can make up at least half that cost by getting more favorable insurance rates and other factors, including an on - time launch, ULA has said.
In an era of increasing technology and decreasing costs, they'll expect you will to bring them an operating company with at least some traction.
They have at least three core pursuits in retirement; they've planned for the cost of those pursuits; they have a plan to be mortgage - free by retirement; they have at least three separate sources of income; and they are income investors who rely on their portfolio cash flow to replace their former paycheck.
The firms said that the combined business will generate at least # 500 million in cost savings and lead to a reduction in prices of about 10 percent.
But if you can't afford that, at least give shoppers an early, clear indication of the actual cost.
Richard Swart, who directs research into innovative entrepreneurial finance at the University of California, Berkeley, does not forecast sharp growth for crowdfunding, at least for the first few years, partly due to regulatory costs.
The professional inventory managers wanted to charge Rourke a fee of at least 15 % of the price of every part — an unacceptable cost increase.
Many small business owners already have at least an idea of how rising prices will impact their businesses in the short term — but whether they'll have to pass costs onto consumers is less clear.
«A good financial strategist will cost at least $ 90,000 a year, so do the math,» says Steve Enright, president of SJE Partners, a Richmond, Virginia, HR consulting firm.
The complaint alleges that company A would give in to the threat, pay AT&T / Time Warner more money for Turner programming, and pass those higher costs (or at least most of them) along to its customers.
While the merits of building a subway line over a light - rail one are, in this instance, contentious, the move at least bucks a trend in Toronto, a city where subway plans are often scrapped — not formed on short notice (not to mention at a higher cost).
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