Despite cuts, he said, the agency has been hit with uncontrolled costs.

The health-care delivery system and its uncontrolled costs are badly in need of reform.

Their cloud-based approach overcomes the inherent problems of premise-based solutions, including limits on scalability, inefficient or haphazard analysis, and uncontrolled costs.

"It's reaching a crisis level in the US and we continue to complain about the rising uncontrolled costs of care - and yet we don't drill down and test some of these concepts."

He and others have argued that the Reagan Administration and the utility industry are desperate to open the plants to shore up the industry, which has been hampered by uncontrolled costs and by safety fears generated by the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

As these nations assess the costs and benefits of alternative strategies, the majority sentiment is that the low costs and potentially high benefits of trying to force Iraq out of Kuwait with sanctions and increased saber rattling are far preferable to the potentially uncontrolled costs and uncertain benefits of actually going to war.