31.   Problems associated with getting orders shipped on time at Intermec has forced Unova to hire temporary workers and maintain higher inventory levels, both expensive propositions.

32.   Renting homes abroad takes some planning, involves some risk-taking and, at first blush, seems like an expensive proposition.

33.   Television news gathering is an expensive proposition, and producers do not like to put their news crews on planes until they know what they will get.

34.   That can quickly become an expensive proposition if a corporation must buy separate computer programs to track currencies and interest rates.

35.   That makes borrowing money an even more expensive proposition for the leveraged-buyout financiers, because it means sharing part of their ultimate profit with the lenders.

36.   That sounded like an expensive proposition, I muttered from the front seat.

37.   The money is dearly needed, because pursuing an Olympic berth in cycling is an expensive proposition.

38.   The requested remedy is not simply the mothballing of the punchcard machines, but the imposition of uniform statewide voting systems, an expensive proposition.

39.   The Packers have talked to Steinberg about keeping Howard in Green Bay, but it seems it will be an expensive proposition.

40.   They may eventually have to buy an investment bank -- an expensive proposition as U.S. markets rally -- to compete with the likes of Merrill and Morgan.