The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

On the supply side, Brazil's arms exports were designed for developing world markets and were noted for their high quality, easy maintenance, good performance in adverse conditions, and low cost.

Developing countries feel that some countries in the developed world, such as the United States of America, cut down their forests centuries ago and benefited greatly from this deforestation, and that it is hypocritical to deny developing countries the same opportunities: that the poor shouldn't have to bear the cost of preservation when the rich created the problem.

He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost, and for penning the influential Parable of the Broken Window.

These are typically industrial processes in manufacturing where the cost of developing and maintaining the automation system is high relative to the total cost of the automation, and where changes to the system would be expected during its operational life.

The initial impact of outsourcing, and the relatively lower cost of international human resources in developing third world countries led to a massive migration of software development activities from corporations in North America and Europe to India and later: China, Russia, and other developing countries.

Sulfur ointments or benzyl benzoate are often used in the developing world due to their low cost ; 10 % sulfur solutions have been shown to be effective, and sulfur ointments are typically used for at least a week.

The removal of trade and investment barriers, the growth of domestic markets, artificially low currencies, the proliferation of education, the rapid development of high tech and information systems industries and the growth of the world economy lead to a significant growth of offshore outsourcing during the decade as many multinational corporations significantly increased subcontracting of manufacturing ( and increasingly, services ) across national boundaries in developing countries and particularly in China and India, due to many benefits and mainly because the two countries which are the two most populous countries in the world provide huge pools from which to find talent and as because both countries are low cost sourcing countries.

In the 1960s the National Fertilizer Development Center began developing Sulfur-coated urea ; sulfur was used as the principle coating material because of its low cost and its value as a secondary nutrient.

The cost of school uniforms can present a significant barrier to school attendance in developing nations.

Papua New Guinea is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by the rugged terrain and the high cost of developing infrastructure.

Kalam played a major part in developing many missiles under the mission including Agni, an intermediate range ballistic missile and Prithvi, the tactical surface-to-surface missile, although the projects have been criticised for mismanagement and cost and time overruns.

Other issues include the cost of insulated glazing and developing effective systems to redistribute heat throughout the living area.

Medical tourism is gaining popularity ( especially with higher-cost surgeries ) as the overall cost of care in developing countries can provide a combination of high-tech medical care at a cost that allows for more enjoyable recovery in a vacation-type setting.

Technology was developing so quickly that a computer costing $ 3, 000. 00 in 1997 would cost $ 2, 000. 00 two years later and only $ 1000. 00 the following year.

" When Bakshi returned to the United States, he learned that the cost of developing blown-up prints of each frame had risen.

In March 1996, largely due to the cost of developing the new Ace, Angliss ' company went into receivership and was eventually sold to Pride Automotive in December 1996, who continued car production in Weybridge, Surrey under the name of AC Car Group Ltd.

; Total Cost of Ownership ( TCO ): In combination, the benefits above may result in cost savings to an organization developing enterprise applications.

When developing a business plan for a new or existing company, product, or project, planners typically make cost estimates in order to assess whether revenues / benefits will cover costs ( see cost-benefit analysis ).

# Identifying and developing appropriate solutions regarding the quality and use of the built environment in urban, suburban and rural areas and making designs, plans and working drawings, specifications of work, cost estimates and time schedules.

The high investment cost of conventional wastewater collection systems are difficult to afford for many developing countries.

What policies if adopted and applied in various circumstances will increase the likelihood that future events will coincide with desired events and do so at least cost in terms of all human values??

all which cost me at the least 20 pounds ''.

Then see what a boom in all trades, as well as slum clearance at no cost to taxpayers, will happen.

The agencies of government are now billed for the actual cost of services provided to each passenger car rather than the prior uniform charge for all cars.

A substantial increase is estimated in the cost of operating additional communications systems in the air defense program, as well as in all programs where speed and security of communications are essential.

In addition, Blue Cross coverage for all employees and their dependents was extended to provide the full cost of semi-private hospital accommodations.

Ritter, the builder, is convinced that the total cost of all the heating systems plus the oil distribution system is no greater than would be gas heating systems in the houses plus their lines and meters.

`` It made our whole industry recognize the need for a new kind of teamwork between manufacturer, carrier, equipment maker, dealer, and builder, all working together to cut the cost of materials handling.

The threat of effective anti-trust action, provoked by `` gouging the public '' through price increases not justified by cost increases, and fears of endangering relations with customers, Congress, the general public and the press, all operate to keep price increases in some relation to cost increases.

In this model, we abstract from all non-wage sources of cost changes, so that the `` public-limit price '' only rises as the wage rate rises.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

With infinite patience she responded to every call, no matter at what cost to herself, and to her all went, for she was sure to have the needed information or word of cheer.

The King should expect no profit, and an advance of only 20 per cent above the cost in France, which would cover the expense of transportation and handling, was all he charged the traders.

As of April 2012, it appears that all of the 25, 000 light fixtures will have to replaced, at an estimated cost of $ 54 million.

In practice, almost all computers use a variety of memory types, organized in a storage hierarchy around the CPU, as a trade-off between performance and cost.

Increasing returns to scale occurs when " doubling all inputs more than doubles the output an activity has economies of scale if doubling output less than doubles cost ".

Although all rebellions were eventually put down at enormous cost and casualties, the central imperial authority was seriously weakened.

Nevertheless, all of these systems can also be described without requiring the concept of centrifugal force, in terms of motions and forces in a stationary frame, at the cost of taking somewhat more care in the consideration of forces and motions within the system.

As in all lossy compression, there is a tradeoff between video quality, cost of processing the compression and decompression, and system requirements.

The features that make the diffusion pump attractive for high and ultra-high vacuum use are its high pumping speed for all gases and low cost per unit pumping speed when compared with other types of pump used in the same vacuum range.

This all makes it a more convenient number system for computing fractions than most other number systems in common use, such as the decimal, vigesimal, binary, octal and hexadecimal systems, although the sexagesimal system ( where the reciprocals of all 5-smooth numbers terminate ) does better in this respect ( but at the cost of an unwieldy multiplication table ).