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Saga gives designers fur for runway looks, and sometimes a nominal incentive fee, in a program it calls "cost-based sponsorship."

Less Paint, More Parties Elizabeth Holmes 2011

A smarter strategy, though, is to demand that outside legal representatives define their scope of work, implement "right fit" staffing models and achieve predictive, cost-based accountability -- the same as a corporation expects from any other service provider.

Why Businesses Are Fed Up With Their Law Firms Richard L. Upton 2010

Fujitsu was one of five network operators and infrastructure providers who wrote to the communications minister Ed Vaizey at the start of April threatening to boycott the rural broadband projects he is proposing because they said that BT's proposed charges for access to its underground ducts and telegraph poles were "not cost-based".

Row over BT access prices threatens Vaizey's plan for superfast broadband 2011

However, many believed that such historical cost-based financial statements did not provide information as relevant as current market price, so accounting has evolved from historical cost to fair-value-based financial statements.

Sears Chairman Unleashes 15-Page Manifesto About Um, Everything - The Consumerist 2009

HHS says labs would see higher costs, but they would be able to impose a "reasonable cost-based fee" for providing access to results.

U.S. Plan Would Boost Access to Lab Results Laura Landro 2011

The individualistic behavior of attorneys and the retrospective billing practices of the legal profession add up to an outright rejection of the cost-based predictability and accountability their clients crave.

Why Businesses Are Fed Up With Their Law Firms Richard L. Upton 2010

This will inevitably lead to cost-based rationing -- not the kind where you decide, on your own behalf, what to spend your money on, but the kind where others decide what care is even available for you to purchase.

Nina Burleigh: A Socialist and a Capitalist Walk Into a Bar... Nina Burleigh 2011

Yes, the "death panels" charge is somewhat crude, but combine cost-based rationing with end-of-life counseling and, well, here we are.

'Death Panels' Come Back to Life David B. Rivkin Jr. 2010

On the other hand, economic I-O tables and GDP are also themselves “cost-based” systems of accounts, that leave out much that is of value to supporting human well-being and quality of life.

Herman Daly Festschrift~ Toward a sustainable and desirable future~ a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly 2009

For lower dollar cost items, the high deductible which is the idea behind Republican Health Savings Plans causes people to make cost-based decisions, which would result in better functioning of the basic care market, if it were widely adopted.

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