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...million for each new medication in the 1970s to $125 million today. Regulatory agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can take up to seven years to approve a drug application. That shrinks to 14 years the maximum amount of time in which a company can recoup its investment before its patent on a new substance runs out, and thereby pressures the firm to hike the price...
...measure's supporters, however, said they expected to recoup some, if not all, of the $35,000 from ticket proceeds...
...program will cost $100,000 to $200,000 to start up, but Harvard expects to recoup costs in three years and make a profit thereafter, officials said...
Savings in disposal costs plus profit from selling waste paper to recyclers would quickly recoup the small initial start up costs of a recycling program...
...computer system. Seven firms offered to do the work at prices ranging from $2,000 to $201,000. But the winner was Fujitsu, which submitted a bid of less than a penny. The practice smacked of dumping, in which goods or services are sold below cost. Fujitsu hoped to recoup its initial loss by having city officials eventually buy more expensive software and hardware. While Fujitsu has admitted to carrying out similar practices in the past, it offered to retract the latest bid. Even so, the government has pledged to investigate whether the company broke any laws...