Sentences with phrase «human cost for»

But nothing excuses the incredible human cost for some of the things we enjoy.

If there is a human cost for any increase in radiation, the decision is a moral and social as well as a technical one.

Not exact matches

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

What they give up is the cost advantage that comes with lower wages for human workers.

Most of the experiments endeavour to reduce insect farming's most expensive input, human labour, which accounts for a stunningly high 60 % of costs (in the heavily mechanized cattle farming industry, by comparison, it's rare for labour costs to reach even half of that).

The MBA team ultimately recommended that Howard get a Square Register, an iPad - based point - of - sale system that will allow his customers to enter their products, calculate the cost and pay by credit or debit card — still checking out without the need for a human cashier.

The challenge for managers will be to identify where automation could transform their organizations, and then figure out where to unlock value, given the cost of replacing human labor with machines and the complexity of adapting business processes to a changed workplace.

For midsize businesses (those with more than 50 employees and less than 1,000) getting their arms around their total cost of ownership (TCO) in human resources — what they are actually spending on employees and the cost of managing them — can be easily overlooked.

Unhappy, unhealthy employees increase human - resources costs — training a new employee costs more than $ 6,000, for example.

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

Some of their images remained on the walls for months, ghostly reminders of the human costs of radical change.

But we won't have any real idea of the true human cost of the hack for years.

BlackRock (blk) and Wall Street's motivation for the changes is clear: Replacing humans with artificial intelligence will lower their ratio of costs to profits by 28 %, according to Opimas.

«For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook poFor decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook pofor marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook post.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

The human tendency to hope for the best and try to avoid failure at all costs gets in the way, and organizational hierarchies exacerbate it.

Tom Price, Trump's pick to head Health and Human Services, resigned after reports surfaced that he had used private planes for travel that cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Blockchain technologies are capable of reducing the amount of human workers needed, reducing salary costs, eliminating the need for a business to own / rent and operate infrastructure, and making the record of data kept by the business less susceptible to fraud & and manipulation.

So for now Facebook needs the help of humans, and that will cost «billions.»

The price we pay for fossil fuels does not include the long - term costs to the environment and to human health.

An August 2016 Society for Human Resource Management survey found the average cost per hire is more than $ 4,100, and it takes an average of 42 days to replace a position.

Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price today walked back comments about how Republican efforts to undo Obamacare's individual mandate would increase costs for people who remain insured, saying that his remarks were reported out of context.

Our mission is to create intuitive, and accessible technologies that make it simple for every human to have total control over his or her money and transact safely and securely with the entire world instantly at little or no cost.

We provide creative and cost - effective business solutions for our clients in the areas of employee benefits, human resources, and communications.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

If you choose to be that stupid you're going to hear it from us and be ridiculed for it every chance I get, because ignorance is dangerous and religious ignorance has cost and continues to cost human life.

We're not sure if it should be cause for concern that the doggy cupcakes cost more than the ones meant for human consumption...

But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect of Nat's body of work that obituary writers in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality of human life from conception to natural death.

I'm down for some sci - fi philosophizing — gim me some Blade Runner, Moon or WALL - E any time — but on Westworld it comes at the cost of human stories.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

One other example from on - the - scene reports by Witness for Peace illustrates the human costs of U.S. support for terrorism as part of its low - intensity - conflict strategy against the poor of Nicaragua:

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

My basis for flatly opposing reproductive and research cloning is that it offers too little human benefit at the cost of too much likely harm, not that it is an offense against human dignity.

The Human Genome Project, not long ago completed at a cost of $ 3 billion, was often presented by its promoters as opening the way to discovering the ultimate genetic causes of all diseases, thus setting the stage for their cure.

For instance, Phillip Berryman writes in Commonweal, the liberal Catholic journal, about the human costs of the U.S. action, and why it may turn out to be a failure in the long term.

The human capacity for reason and freedom, embraced in the «transgressive» rise to humanhood and embodied in the enlarged cranium, comes at heavy bodily cost to the woman, indeed, often, with risk to her very life.

And I'm begging you, especially, to avoid it at all costs for the good of the human race.

Why Casinos Matter, a new report from the Institute for American Values, details the human and social costs of gambling.

Their cost should be borne by their «customers», either the students or the corporations for which they are being prepared as improved «human capital».

He lived a perfect life, thus was the perfect sacrifice to pay the cost (suffer the punishment for sin that every human deserved).

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

The principles that have emerged thus far are these: We should seek new knowledge of our genes (and we can say this without deciding whether the Human Genome Initiative is the wisest and most cost - effective way to do so) We should seek therapies for the genetic disorders that afflict many people.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

The church has not been able to live with the results of such extreme formulations; so it has kept reintroducing human responsibility, but often at the cost of allowing for the self - righteousness the theologians were trying to exclude.

Part of the cost we pay as citizens and people trying to advance our civilization is the burden of looking out for all the other humans as well.

And this is the problem: the measures he proposes would and could only be enforced at the cost of massive violations of human rights, and by dismantling the fragile but promising structures of technological know - how, international law, trade, and communication by which we are building up a still - feeble sense of what it means to be a single humanity on a single globe, under God and responsible for a common world.

Scenarios for the future are even darker in terms of the social or human cost in the so - called «transition» countries of the East.

To recognize the limits of the planet's resources and the value of human capital, and pledge to account for the true costs of our actions on people and the environment, and to offer true value in the goods we produce.