In a buyer's market, though, higher-cost sellers suffer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exxon Mobil's Weapons of Gas Destruction] Reference

Fairly finance reform rather than taxing higher-cost plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Rosenbaum: ACTION: Senator Reid does the American thing, puts a public option in the Senate bill. Support him.] Reference

AOL fuses that content with its professional, higher-cost content.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 25, AOL switches tracks: Creating content, not just connecting users] Reference

The payoff for higher-cost airlines is supposed to be higher revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Costs of Old Age Trip Up Airlines] Reference

Higher prices have made even older, higher-cost assets economically viable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mine Mishaps Raise Questions on Safety] Reference

Having higher-cost overseas operations to manage has weighed on profit growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Refrigerator Maker Finds U.S. Chilly] Reference

Rather than go with higher-cost options, he stopped contributing to the plan last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Workers Struggle to Deal With] Reference

That said, in some situations it may make sense to go with a slightly higher-cost alternative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicare Moves] Reference

Others turned to these loans to pay off higher-cost debt or to finance renovations and even vacations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Borrowers] Reference

Instead, it has economized on packaging and replaced higher-cost truffles with solid chocolate in its boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocoa Prices Create Chocolate Dilemma] Reference

Now governments are trying to take a more active role to shield consumers from higher-cost financial services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plan Promotes Bank Accounts For Consumers] Reference

The figures shows how important housing benefit has become to working families, especially in higher-cost areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Hughes in talks to avert wave of evictions due to housing benefit cuts] Reference

And higher-cost patients will have to have more money, and the tax credit would be supplemented for high-cost patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Brain] Reference

As a low-cost producer, however, this would help it ultimately by forcing higher-cost competitors to scale back or exit.    From Wordnik.com.  [BHP: How to Lose Friends and Influence Prices] Reference

The higher-cost annuities sold by insurance agents will almost never pay, except as a hedge against future tax-rate increases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollars In, Dollars Out] Reference

Low-cost index funds and exchange-traded funds always begin the investing race with a head start over higher-cost managed funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fidelity Comes Up Small in Its Big Funds] Reference

Wouldn't investment managers be tempted to favor their own funds over competitors 'or to steer participants into higher-cost funds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will New Rules Lead To Better Or Less 401(k) Advice?] Reference

So, they're looking for ways to shed labor and higher-cost labor and bringing these folks in and that wasn't what Congress intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2003] Reference

These policies are a good value for middle-income Californians and much different from the higher-cost policies the story highlights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carefully Consider Long-Term Health Care and State Partnerships] Reference

It also would bar steering consumers to higher-cost or riskier loans in order to increase the broker's or loan officer's compensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fed Unveils Rules to Protect Borrowers] Reference

Lenders will face new restrictions on the type of mortgages they write and won't be rewarded for steering borrowers to higher-cost loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Names Elizabeth Warren To New Post Setting Up Consumer Protection Agency] Reference

Then they looked to see whether patients in higher-cost regions thought they got better care than people treated in more low-spending areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [When conservative care is plenty] Reference

Consumers may choose to pay less for lower-cost health plans or more for higher-cost plans, creating incentives for cost-conscious decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preliminary Health Plan Summary Health Care Security Plan] Reference

At that point, super angels will have to either find a new cash-efficient niche or change their exit strategy to accommodate higher-cost companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will These Guys Kill The Next Google?] Reference

They're unlikely to do so, because the deterioration in creditworthiness means they'd have to replace the debt with higher-cost borrowings, Willens said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Keiser: Merrill Lynch Smokes its Own Belly Button Lint] Reference

The mutual-fund industry has been buffeted in recent years as passive, low-cost index funds grabbed market share from higher-cost, actively managed funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Pal Campaigns for Own Firm] Reference

Put more attention and dollars on expanding primary care, which is a low-cost way to keep people healthy and reduce the number of higher-cost interventions.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Graham: The Health Care We Deserve] Reference

BHP insists it runs long-life expandable mines at full tilt to maximize their present value as low-cost operations take market share from higher-cost rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potash Underlines BHP's Big Issue] Reference

Despite higher-cost raw materials than conventional solar panels 'cheap silicon, CdTe thin film has both a lower-cost, deposition-based manufacturing process.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Renewable-Energy Clout] Reference

That report also found that lenders covered by CRA are much less likely to make higher-cost loans in communities of color than are lenders not covered by CRA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dory Rand: Why We Must Modernize CRA: More and More Financial Activity is Taking Place at Non-CRA-regulated Institutions] Reference

Starting with the least-cost mitigation solutions and working our way forward to higher-cost solutions as carbon prices rise - that approach will take too long.    From Wordnik.com.  [William S. Becker: Road to Copenhagen - Part 3: Re-Tooling Industry] Reference

Liberal/Democratic Washington policy thinkers appear close to reaching the consensus view that the Senate's excise tax on higher-cost health plans is a good idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Personal Appeal: The Middle-Class Health Tax Must Be Stopped] Reference

  According to the Congressional Research Service summary of the proposed bill, it would have set new "requirements for higher-cost mortgages" among other provisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [$700 Billion Blame Game] Reference

In order for insurers to cover these higher-cost patients and stay in business, their pool of subscribers has to include a high number of healthier, lower-cost patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left Behind] Reference

For the past several years, strong business travel and demand for premium tickets on international routes gave higher-cost airlines enough revenue to overcome the cost gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Costs of Old Age Trip Up Airlines] Reference

The higher pace of refinancing pushed prices on mortgage bonds lower, particularly for those securities backed by higher-cost mortgages, which are most likely to be refinanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortgage Refinancings Soar to Highest Level Since May 2009] Reference

It is a non-system that denies access to primary preventive care, forcing people into higher-cost crisis care in emergency rooms that are clogged like atherosclerotic arteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Swenson: ER & Psych Unit Closures a Symptom of U.S. 'Profit-First' Health Care] Reference

Women were 32 percent more likely than men to have received subprime loans and 41 percent more likely than men to have received higher-cost subprime loans, regardless of income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Warren: Feminomics: Women and Bankruptcy] Reference