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Those parts, designed in-house at Apple by a company that Apple bought, are among the costlier components needed to make a tablet computer.

It might be much costlier to stand firm than to bend a little to the prevailing political winds.

Relative to national output, the Japanese disaster may end up being two or even three times costlier than the San Francisco quake.

But the costlier Edge configuration I tested had a larger battery than the base unit, so would likely last only two-thirds as long.

In large parts of America, where population densities are lower, it would be much costlier.

Japan's subsequent experience was economically less violent in the short term, but even costlier over the long term.

Furthermore, new human resource laws implemented in the beginning of 2008 make it costlier to fire workers.

Finance will be costlier and investment weak, so the stock of physical capital, on which prosperity depends, will erode.

The local government said it was investigating whether ordinary pork was being mis-sold as the costlier organic sort.

Call me safety conscious, but I certainly don't like working as root unless I have to; mistakes are usually costlier for the root user!

Both tasks turned out to be harder and costlier than Rolls-Royce thought.

Moving factories inland could prove costlier than staying put because companies may have to pay more in shipping costs.

Net oil imports are well below their 2005 peak, which means more of the money Americans spend on costlier oil stays within its borders.

The transition to a new equilibrium is proving costlier, more prolonged and much more painful than anyone had expected.

If processor function becomes a machine to run bottleneck, so the user can deliver the view to costlier CPU necessarily.

China's ascent up the value chain to more sophisticated, costlier products also will require automation.

It fell back after the Saudis denied the claim, but at $125, crude is still 16% costlier than at the start of the year.

closing plants makes electricity costlier and Germany's (and Europe's) ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions harder to meet.

It is no wonder that a growing number of wise heads in the region have concluded that the drug war is costlier than legalizing drugs.

A recurring levy would make it costlier to buy and hold a second or third home as a speculative bet on rising prices.

That proved costlier for the public in the long run.

The sharp rise in the Swiss franc has made it costlier for Swiss-based outfits to pay their wages (see chart).

This package will be somewhat costlier and harder to assemble than an IKEA bookshelf, and he cannot hope to accomplish it alone.

There are materials like fiber glass or ABS plastic which can be used in place of costlier metals while ensuring a reasonable performance.

But it doesn't address the much costlier expiration of George Bush's tax cuts at the end of this year.

Seasonally programmable controllers are available but are generally costlier.

Producers have been grappling with lower grade deposits, which are costlier to develop .

Based on how fast the mice sipped, they appeared to find the costlier sugar water more tasty.

The result of poor infrastructure is that many business services are much costlier than those available in other regions.

They tended to be paid according to seniority, rather than productivity, and were costlier to sack.

Like enriched uranium, hypocrisy can be costlier than it seems.

For private-equity firms new deals are suddenly harder to do and existing ones costlier to refinance.

Overvalued currencies also mean exporters lose their edge because their goods are costlier abroad.

But if those measures are passed, America risks something far costlier than a switch to cleaner energy: a global trade war.

HP, with 70% of its revenues from hardware, is more like Dell but stuck with costlier distribution channels and supply logistics.

As budgetary laxity and weak growth become costlier, reforms are more likely.

That would prompt long legal battles, making the whole process even slower and costlier.

Ask people how they are coping with costlier energy and you get a wide range of responses.

Such attenuated live vaccines can be more effective, but are costlier to produce.

So far, adding jobs in India has not meant shedding many jobs in costlier places, such as America.

Starting a thread is slightly costlier than before but most of the code can run in parallel after.

They believe it is thanks to the trend of experimenting with food at home rather than the costlier option of eating out.

According to IBM's own data, caring for a diabetic child is six times costlier than caring for a healthy one.

Latinos are especially fond of dogs, which are costlier than cats, but superior in every respect.

Some banks are selling assets and lending less, making loans harder to come by and costlier.

Solid-state disks, which lack moving parts and use flash memory, are costlier but faster and use less power.

Also higher oil price mean higher transportation cost, another reason for costlier corn.

Foreclosures and costlier commutes have laid low the distant suburbs, or exurbs.

Utilities often favor such systems, also called solar thermal, over costlier PV.

By any measure France's health system delivers better value for money than America's costlier one.

and it will mean scarcer and costlier loans for Italian companies, which in turn may slow economic growth and hamper debt repayment.

The effect on the economy of deflated assets, tighter credit and costlier energy are already apparent.

Shoppers can easily buy the supermarkets' cheaper own-label beer instead of costlier brands.

Though costlier, xenon allows a discharge lamp to start far more quickly.

A high exchange value makes Japanese exports costlier and less competitive.

It also can cost more because it demands beefier, and thus costlier, hardware to run well than does the older Windows XP.

A weak dollar and OPEC's evident reluctance to increase output add to the case for costlier oil in 2011.

Overall, food inflation remains uncomfortably high (see chart), in part because of costlier raw materials.

The effect on the economy ofdeflated assets, tighter credit and costlier energy are already apparent.

You can buy a Windows PC for under $500, but many stores are pushing costlier models.

Now, Hyundai plans an even costlier sequel.

The abiding lesson of monetary history is that the higher inflation gets, the costlier it becomes to bring down again.

If they default on their debt, that only makes it harder and costlier to borrow in the future.

They are costlier, but faster, and use less power.

The state is a long way from covering its 130, 000 uninsured citizens, while the subsidies are proving costlier than expected.

BMW, similarly, makes the 3- and 5-series here but ships in the costlier 7-series and Z sports cars.

That risk of default can make it harder and costlier for them to borrow more money. Heavy debt can also affect a country's competitiveness.

The more code you have, the costlier it will be to add anything new.

can make it harder and costlier for them to borrow more money.

The costlier editions have a one terabyte hard disk, which is roughly 1, 000 gigabytes.

Newish labour laws in wealthy places such as Shenzhen make it costlier to shut down plants there, for example.

That is to say, borrowings by banks from the central bank are made costlier by raising the bank rate;

Empirical Analysis on the Cause of Increasingly Costlier Medical Service for Rural Residents

thus potentially costlier to society

Costlier labor, currency are ending cheap made-in-China era; manufacturers struggle to adapt