Sentences with phrase «least bear the costs»

«I see this as regressive, because it's putting a burden on people who can least bear the cost.»

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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.

While at least some of those cost predictions seem to be bearing out as advisors and BDs work to get up to speed with the final rule, released in April, industry officials opine that cost of compliance varies.

You must have a qualifying person living with you for at least half the year (except for a school absence) and you must bear more than half the cost of keeping a home.

The costs, or at least who will bear them, are also clear.

Whether ratepayers bear the brunt of that cost depends, at least partially, on how successful the utility is drawing federal grant money...

In their report, the MPs called for the UK government to use its observer status at the Arctic Council, a federation of the eight Arctic nations, to push for a ban on offshore oil exploitation — at least until we have the technology and institutions in place to contain oil spills in the Arctic, and a liability scheme so companies can prove they can bear clean - up costs.

Where a school already has effective business management systems, or where a primary school is too small to bear this cost alone, it makes sense to at least buy in the oversight of a properly qualified accountant from another academy, or to group together to share the cost.

An author must bear at least some of the cost of copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, indexing and printing the book.

This argument is more likely borne out of frustration at the cost of ISBNs, at least in the United States, where authors can purchase them singly for $ 125 each or a pack of ten for $ 250.

But almost nobody, at least today, is willing to bear the cost of taking such goals seriously.

The consumer wants something that is strong enough to run or at least trickle charge their laptop enough to work on it while out and about, with the charger not being impossible to carry around, and also not costing an arm, a leg, and a first born child.

The worst of those costs are likely to fall most heavily on the people least able to bear them — the poorest of the global poor, whose lives could be ruined or even cut short.

If the SCC can be shown to be negative at current levels of abatement (and bear in mind that your excellent chart of net benefits for various abatement paths refers to benefits relative to the 2010 policy stance) then I'd be content to freeze policy at current levels but to steadily transfer all policies to a carbon tax, or at least to cost them on a common basis, ie to treat renewable subsidies as implicit carbon taxes.

Now bear in mind that we're only at the beginning of the technology learning curve for wind and solar, a curve that implies that costs will continue to go down by at least 20 % each time global deployments double.

At least 13 road signs bearing our village's name (costing # 250 each) have been stolen, and semi-naked women are constantly posing for photographs beside the signs when they are not stolen.

Of all the members of the law society, they are the least able to bear the cost of the LPP.

There are approximately 12,200 health plans (including self - insured employer and government health plans that are at least partially self - administered)[45], 6480 hospitals, and 630,000 non-hospital providers that will bear implementation costs under the final rule.

Bear in mind, however, that the least expensive policies are not always the best choice and can end up costing you more in the long run.

Since senior citizen health insurance plans come with limited coverage and many exclusions, compare insurance quotes online for the following: co-payment — where policyholder bears a portion of risk amount and balance is borne by insurer resulting in lower premium rates, maximum renewability age, lowest waiting period for pre-existing diseases and terms related to medical check - ups where least number of medical tests are required and cost reimbursed by insurer.

So... if I assume that I lose a tenant every year because I charge at the upper end of what the market can bear, I am losing 1/12 of my income or 8.3 %... at the very very least and costs me lots of time.