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There's a limited number of those kinds of lots. (MacDonald Highlands is) right up there at the top as the premier expensive homes sites in Las Vegas.

There might be a lot of stations with expensive gas in the tanks, and they might not be terribly inclined to lower the price until later in the week.

This makes me wonder about the prognosis for Alpha. At Compaq there has been major management shakeups, and this could be something that's fallen by the wayside. It's a very expensive venture and maybe hasn't generated the kind of return Compaq would like to see on it.

This is where it gets tricky, especially for inexperienced travelers who are making long-range plans. It might be worth it for a really expensive cruise that is non-refundable, for instance. It depends on your risk quotient and health.

This is the least expensive variable annuity we've found that offers a living income benefit and contains a guaranteed roll-up death benefit. And the living income benefit and death benefit are second to none in the industry.

This is the kind of discrimination we would see on a much larger level without the provisions. Trying to fight something like this after it is in effect is very expensive and time consuming. It might take years to get a decision.

They're happy using expensive disk if they don't have to pay for it. The benefits of ILM reside in the IT organization, and those benefits don't necessarily translate to business users.

They're going to sell about five of them. I'm all for integration, and I think customers are, too, but this is way too expensive for the market right now. It's ideal for college students, but they're exactly the ones who can't afford this.

There's a sense that Universal may have let down the side initially, with the way they marketed the film and the release date. If you just look at the gross, it's a perfectly respectable gross for that kind of dramatic movie. But given how expensive the film was, it was considered a box office disappointment.

There's been a declining audience for network TV for a while, People have their own libraries of things they specifically want to see, which competes for TV viewing time. More options is good news for the consumer but bad news for the networks, who are responsible for the most expensive hours of TV produced. It'll be harder and harder to maintain an audience that justifies that business model.

There?s a lot of stuff which is expensive but easy to do.

There's a nursing shortage (and) a shortage in most of the technical professions. So if you can keep people, it's a lot less expensive than if you're trying to recruit them. And you recruit them by providing a better work environment.

A thief is a thief. Making a movie is a very risky and expensive enterprise, and artists deserve to be reimbursed fairly.

At fancy and expensive restaurants (say, $50 and up for a dinner), you can follow a simple procedure to choose the best meal. Look at the menu and ask yourself: 'Which of these items do I least want to order?' Or: 'Which one sounds the least appetizing?' Then order that item.

At a certain price, Americans say, 'Okay, I'm not going to drive anymore' or, 'This is getting too expensive to heat my home this way. I have to switch to another fuel.' ... When that does happen, demand will curtail and prices will retreat.

ask hard questions as to how this expensive feat can be achieved without pulling the financial rug out from under other priority conservation projects.

Asset management acquisitions are safer, in our view, given the predictability of earnings, although they will likely be more expensive than banks or consumer finance companies.

Allowing the large fraction of wetlands in New Orleans to disappear is an extremely expensive thing.

Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt.

A bankruptcy does not solve any business problem. It is an expensive process of buying time. It is my opinion that the court will grant Delphi as much time as it needs to resolve problems.

Absolutely. It's not an extraordinarily expensive thing. This year, we're getting a late start, but I look for it to do very well in year two and three.

A better way to help American companies compete against competitors abroad is to remove all series and myriad of obstacles they face in America, whether it's union rules in some states or massive amounts of regulation imposed upon them, one of the most expensive combined corporate tax rates on the planet.

The most expensive piece of equipment we have in this dining room is an empty chair.

The most expensive item on the menu is the prime rib at $15.95, but that's a big piece of prime rib.

The most expensive haircut I ever had cost ?10.

The most expensive diamond ever purchased was a red diamond.

The most expensive book I bought was $10. It's all relative to today's market.

The mortgage is the largest obligation that people take on and it's very expensive to get a mortgage and very painful. It's not a fun process. So we've invested quite a bit of money in using the Internet and e-commerce to make it easier. Fannie Mae has become one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. Last year, we underwrote through automated underwriting and electronically, two and a half million loans, $300 billion of transactions. This year will be over $400 billion. So e-commerce is moving into the mortgage sector and it's going to affect everybody.

The more round they are, the more expensive they will be and the better quality they will be.

A college education isn't so ridiculously out of whack. It ain't cheap, but it's not as expensive as people think either.

A correct analysis concludes that mandated a la carte would be more expensive for consumers and result in less choice and shrinking diversity in cable programming.

It's just a matter of being an NBA superstar, ... You can love it or hate it. You get a lot of things that come with it: magazine covers, cover of a video game, mega-deals, fancy cars, expensive clothes, jewelry. You've got everything at your disposal.

It's just the technology, but it's expensive technology.

It's expensive enough to advertise in metropolitan New Orleans, but if you have to add in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Houston and Atlanta, you might as well run for president. I don't know what the answer is. And, of course, for direct mailing, they don't have their addresses.

It's expensive and it does not offer as much protection as a vertical sea wall during a really intense storm event.

It seems that foreign selling, partly spurred by relatively expensive Japanese shares, has peaked out.

It's a tough, expensive agreement. But I think we'll be fine. We'll have to watch our expenses and things like that, and be fiscally responsible. But it's a great thing. This gives us labor peace for a while, which is what separated the National Football League from other sports. It's good for the players, and I think it will be good for the league.

It's a bad idea. Credit insurance is a rip-off because it's very expensive and you get very little for it. Make sure you have enough life insurance to cover your debts, such as the mortgage, credit cards, and your children's education. Many people use term insurance for this specific kind of thing.

It wasn't financially feasible, ... We have relatively small sites, and it was too expensive for us. We would have had to pay for the construction from the nearest ring into our facilities. So there was quite a bit of capital costs, digging-up-the-parking-lot-type costs.

It was sad. But the fact is, it would be very expensive (to continue to fight).

It's about 67 cents more expensive per gallon than it was 365 days ago. And that blows a hole in the budget.

It is quite expensive for most Indonesians. But I can show how to finance this hobby.

It is unacceptable for a country with 20 million poor people to spend this kind of money. This is the most expensive voting process in the world.

It's more expensive than a signal, but again, I think it's safer. It lowers speeds and it's more efficient.

It's unacceptable. It's immoral and it's a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars and would be far more expensive to implement than anyone knows.

It's very difficult to predict the effect on the network. But streaming media is about the most expensive traffic and uses the most bandwidth.

It's trickle-down contracting: You're paying a cut at every level, and it makes the final cost exponentially more expensive than it needs to be. And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.

(It's) not that expensive when you consider what women shell out over time.

For decades, this country was second only to Albania, or even second to none, for keeping out all information about foreign countries. But the old state supervision, where the police would do random checks looking for things like radios, collapsed over the last decade. It was too expensive to run.

For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.

For a bank our size, this eliminates an investment in a lot of expensive hardware, and hiring of more technically oriented staff. At a small bank, there's a lot of people who wear a lot of hats.

It's too expensive to hire the wrong person. Anything we can do to help us build the right team is worth it.

It's too expensive to have your due process or day in court.

It's too expensive for us right now. We're researched it somewhat. Some of those systems take up to three hours to make all their calls.

It's the most expensive home ever sold in La Jolla,

It's the price of gas that is driving all of this. Not just at the pump, but the way gas prices are affecting everything else in the economy, making everything else more expensive as it drives up the cost of doing business.

It's less expensive to house them. We can use their own money to stabilize them and get them connected to treatment.

It's a long-overdue project. It's also a very expensive one.

It's always more expensive to do something than nothing. But in the long run, it will be less expensive, because you're not creating as many lifetime criminals and you're helping more kids to become successful members of society.

It looks like there is a very expensive auction coming up.

It makes a sale of the company easier in one case and more expensive in the other.

It may be hard to find and expensive to find it, but you want to take vitamin D-3.

It's a pretty expensive endeavor for a company to pay for, ... A small company can't afford it. It's just more overhead.

It's an industry that does not experience a change in demand whether the economy is expanding or contracting, or whether the market is rising or falling. When you die, you die. The only difference could be the families of the one who passed away, if times are tough, could opt for a less expensive funeral.

It's going to cost in the mid-six figures easy. The case is going to involve incredible expenses and amounts of work. It's a very expensive proposition.

It's going to be expensive and take thousands of dollars.

It's going to be more expensive and more layers of bureaucracy.

It's getting very expensive to pull 'em around. . . . What cost you $200 to come up here in July cost you $400 to come up here in September.

It's getting ridiculously expensive to insure directors and officers.

It's going to be a long and expensive process that will require a lot of reframing and reconstruction to make it work,

It shouldn't be any more expensive than regular paper.

It's a very expensive stock. That's why we've stayed away from it.

It's a very expensive piece of equipment. And I thought, if it breaks, I couldn't fix it on a limited income.

It's prohibitively expensive to deliver high-quality music over wireless Internet streaming. That's where the benefit of satellite radio comes in.

It's pretty sad news. You're one of the most expensive places to buy auto insurance in Canada. I've no idea why that should be. You've also got some of the worst benefits in Canada, particularly in New Brunswick.

Designers are considering a new re-entry vehicle with a metal skin. This would eliminate the tile system used on the space shuttle, which is expensive to maintain.

Desktop Linux is less expensive for schools to buy and less expensive for IT administrators to upgrade,

Don't buy a $300 sofa and think it will last for years, ... Go ahead and buy the more expensive one, and down the road you can have it reupholstered. I'm getting ready to reupholster my sofa, which I've had for more than 12 years.

You try to come up with a reasonable fee for the amount of work the attorney does, ... That fee has been $2,200 and it will now increase to $3,500. So, it is going to be more expensive to file bankruptcy beginning next week.

You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can also control the temperature of any room in the house. And it's all not much more expensive than standard lighting.

Every basis point matters. If I had to choose between eliminating mutual funds that are the most expensive or those that are the worst performers, I'd eliminate the most expensive ones.

It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.

It's still an expensive stock. The mid-20s would be a good entry point for buying Oracle stock.

It's something we have to do, but it has to be done well, ... These movies are so expensive we have to be careful ... We're pretty close. Hopefully by the end of this year we'll be able to do that.

It's slowed down some because some of them are very expensive to buy now.

It's so expensive right now, we're hoping we can help them out.

It's not as expensive as it would have been had if, say we had a really cold January or if we were having normal, cold winter, but it's still expensive -- still more than it ever has been.

It's not an expensive process, really. But it adds up to millions of dollars ultimately.

Efficiency and cost reduction are a matter of survival for airlines. Charles de Gaulle Airport is already the second most expensive airport in Europe. It should be focusing on cost decreases not increases. This short-sighted decision will have long-term effects on the competitive position of Paris as a major hub.

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.

Stocks remain richly valued as a multiple of earnings. If earnings do not accurately represent the fortunes of Corporate America, then stock prices may be even more expensive than the statistics suggest.

The basic rationale is that performing arts courses are more expensive to teach and support. The classes are smaller, so there is more faculty.

The banks are expensive compared to the rest of the local market and they're expensive compared with overseas banks.

The average person has no idea how expensive things are going to be this winter. It's not going to sink in until they get the first bill, and then the politicians will be screaming in the streets.

The AXO System is a newly developed automated system that allows stem cells from cord blood to be harvested in a functionally closed processing set without the requirement of expensive clean rooms and labor intensive processes.

The adoption of Linux on the desktop will be slow because a platform migration can be expensive and time-consuming.

The additional preschool funding is excellent news. Even though full-day kindergarten is a constant priority of the State Board of Education, we recognize it is very expensive to fund on the state level.

The airline model -- where seats get more expensive closer to the departure date -- is in reverse for hotels, because they do not want to be left with empty rooms,

That is real important because it is relatively expensive to operate transit so we need to be sure we are balancing the available funding with a real need for service.

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