They account for 2 million insurance claims
each year costing at least $ 8.5 billion.
Not exact matches
Trying to compete
at the same
cost from such a weak position hints
at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few
years.
Don't cut corners, but look for one new way to cut your
costs at the beginning of the
year.
GOBankingRates estimates the
cost of living comfortably in San Francisco
at $ 119,570 — outpacing every other city on the list by $ 30,000 a
year or more.
«It may take
at least 30
years to recover the initial investment — not counting huge management
costs and
costs incurred in providing security.»
I'm not just talking about Square's losses ($ 154 million in 2014, which the company's on track to match this
year), its disastrously expensive deal with Starbucks (which
cost it $ 28 million in 2014), or Dorsey's other CEO job
at Twitter (which, as the Square prospectus drily notes, «may
at times adversely affect his ability to devote time, attention, and effort to Square.»
Daniel Miessler, advisory services director
at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would
cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a
year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.
If you rent, then paying for renters insurance, which tends to be very low
cost (prices often start
at around $ 100 a
year, depending on location and other factors), is a must - have.
A
year of tuition and room and board
at Ashland University for a traditional undergraduate
costs around $ 30,000.
At Glastonbury this
year, the clear up
cost for organisers was # 780,000 ($ 990,000).
These two headaches have
cost Barrick about $ 15.9 billion over the past few
years, according to an analyst
at Macquarie Group.
(Owners say that it
costs around $ 1 million a
year to maintain a pro team, most operate
at a loss, and their primary source of revenue — sponsorships — can be fickle, especially when teams get relegated out of LoL's championship tier.)
edu email and haven't yet become a member with it, you can get a six - month trial of Prime Student
at no -
cost and then pay 50 % less than other Prime users ($ 6.49 per month) after the trial ends for four
years or until your indicated graduation date — whichever comes first.
Most governments of developed countries have spent the last several
years attempting
at all
costs to keep their economies out of recession, and in doing so appear to have taken their eye of inflation.
We'll assume the
cost of policies is the same as today in the ACA exchange
at $ 12,534 a
year.
Gas prices are rising
at a rate of 1 to 2 percent per
year, plus inflation; meanwhile, the
cost of electricity generation is going down.
CEO Randy Eresman noted in the Calgary - based company's 2011
year - end results: «For the industry as a whole, near - term natural gas prices are
at levels below what it
costs to add most new production, and in some places, may even be below what it
costs to produce from existing wells.»
According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a
year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking
at Canada for top talent and a
cost - competitive advantage over the United States.
These gestures often vary in scale and
cost, but one thing I have found consistent in my
years of running businesses is the astonishing amount of wastefulness due to completely irrelevant or useless gifts that end up
at the bottom of a wastebasket or, worse, in a white elephant gift exchange.
There's
at least one relatively recent example the entrepreneurial set can cite: In the late 1980s the federal government said that mapping the first human genome was going to take 15
years and
cost $ 3 billion.
The ITER international project in France has been plagued by
cost overruns — the original 5 - billion - euro project is now budgeted
at 13 billion euros (about $ 15 billion)-- and its 23,000 - ton Tokamak experimental reactor, three times heavier than the Eiffel Tower, is still many
years from completion.
My sports fascination, long dormant from my youth and from those early
years cheering for the Wolves, had dissolved into a selfish desire to win
at all
costs, even if it meant abandonment and disloyalty.
Add to that, the
cost of health insurance premiums growing
at four times inflation and workers changing employers far more often than they did 60
years ago, and you have a system that's going to break.
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is
at its lowest level in four
years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food
costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.
The resulting drops in performance
cost those businesses an average of US$ 1,967 a
year per employee (US$ 3,556 for those with frequent insomnia), and US$ 54 million
at the four companies combined.
The fact is, says Vitaliy Katsenelson, director of research
at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo., and a prominent China skeptic, China's frantic building boom over the past five
years not only boosted GDP on paper and put millions to work but also produced a property bubble where neither investors nor developers are likely to ever recover their
costs.
According to Gallup's study, 70 percent of American workers are «not engaged» or else are «actively disengaged»
at their jobs,
costing U.S. companies $ 450 billion to $ 550 billion per
year.
The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10
years ago where people would avoid the city
at all
costs» — and quality of life for young people.
If you look
at the amortization of that
cost over a 10 -
year period, it doesn't seem so bad.
The reduction in
costs registered by consumers has been estimated
at around $ 150 billion a
year — roughly 1 / 10th of toal corporate profits.
The following
year, FIFA abandoned its
years - long tradition of holding executive meetings
at Baur au Lac, where suites
cost $ 4,000 a night, and moved to another five - star hotel that was expected to save the organization tens of thousands of dollars.
They might only get 95 percent quality instead of 100 percent, and it might
cost 200 percent more, but who cares: They're growing
at 963 percent a
year!
When you're a 26 -
year - old engineer or manager you may do worse than being reactive and not being emphatic, and that acting out is
at a very high
cost to the business.»
At the end of a
year, Katzinger's had indeed reduced its food
costs to below 35 % of sales — saving $ 30,000 in the process.
If a late e-commerce surge raises
costs for UPS this
year, Abney said, «We certainly in 2015 and beyond will look very closely
at what we need to do» to offset those
costs, including the possibility of holiday season price increases.
If residents aren't satisfied with their waterfront views, they can always borrow a boat to get a different perspective: the Rothesay Yacht Club sits
at the community's northern tip, though it
costs $ 710 a
year for a family to stay on the membership rolls.
Spirit Airlines — Spirit received a double upgrade to «overweight» from «underweight»
at JPMorgan Chase, which noted the battering in Spirit's stock price this
year and a more favorable overall
cost structure amid rising fuel prices.
Tesla, which is not yet profitable, currently sells a limited number of electric roadsters
at a
cost of more than US$ 100,000 each, though it plans to introduce a lower - priced $ 50,0000 Model S electric car next
year.
But 30
years after the arm was developed,
at the
cost of $ 180 million, Canada's specialty in space prosthetics continues, with Canadarm2 and Dextre (a «robotic handyman,» in Canadian Space Agency parlance) on the International Space Station.
In fact, in the 10
years previous to the January 2011 cut - off of the graph, Canadian light oil sold (in Edmonton)
at a $ 2 per barrel premium to the average
cost of U.S. Saudi Light oil imports because of our access to premium - priced markets in the mid-continent.
But the next minute you look
at reinvesting in that infrastructure it's going to be intimidating compared to the
cost of the cloud, because the
cost of the cloud is plummeting so fast that if you're going to go replace your server farm with a new server farm, you're looking
at money that might buy you 10
years worth of cloud service, which would get you through yet another generation of on - premise replacement.»
Solares estimated
at the time that he could make up the $ 1.5 million in eight
years, meaning if all went according to plan, he should have recouped his
costs by now.
All told, Greenberg says a national «gold standard» phone survey that two
years ago
cost $ 50,000 now
costs at least $ 70,000.
Perth - based Swick Mining Services says it made a number of redundancies to minimise
costs during the March quarter and plans to make an impairment adjustment
at year's end, despite an increase in demand for underground drilling from its existing clients.
The 17 -
year - old Cookstown mall, home to about 50 brand - name manufacturers selling deeply discounted merchandise, gets its share of
cost - conscious shoppers, who may make a day of it with a stop
at the Georgian Downs racetrack nearby.
So far, domestic small - to - mid-cap companies that get most of their revenues
at home have weathered prospects of higher trade
costs the best, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies up 2.8 percent for the
year, nearly double the 1.5 percent gain in the larger - cap and more internationally - exposed S&P 500 index over the same time.
It's not cheap
at $ 230 for them both, but that
cost dips to $ 30 per
year to re-up the planner once you have the pen (and you can probably find the planners for cheaper on Amazon or Jet).
Based on these numbers, it would now take almost 2.5
years at the increased salary to cover b - school
costs vs. 1
year ten
years ago.
Unfortunately,
years of experience come
at a high
cost, and too much experience can sometimes lead to inflexible opinions.
Based on these assumptions, it takes over $ 16 billion to run Westworld for one
year and $ 44,800,000 to keep the lights on for one day — scandal, murder and seduction come
at a
cost.