"I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: Don't just chase GDP growth, don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren, and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment, " Chen told Reuters.
For one, after building the relationships needed, it allowed us to leverage the reach and infrastructure of our corporate partners, engaging them to assist with our mission at a low cost to our organization.
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When the media is consolidated into a few profit-driven hands, it is at the cost of our democracy.
We'll find out, at the cost of our own prosperity, if the PRA is up to this particular job.
We paid down debts, yes, but at what cost to our future selves?
Those precious seconds add up (but as my colleague Quentin Hardy asks, is it at the cost of our brain?).
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Now that our democratic values appear to be taking root in Egypt, we fear that this may be happening at the potential cost of our national security interests.
"Working together will significantly help speed this technology to market at a more affordable cost to our customers, " said Raj Nair, group vice president of global product development at Ford.
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They keep us from folly, even at the cost of reining in our wit.
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First, because knowing history matters -- it can safeguard us from repeating our mistakes and help us value our rights, won at great cost.
This not only decreased our bottom line, but we were also able to provide the same high-quality product to our clients at a much lower cost.
Our Treasury mandarins forget that the inflation we suffer at home will cost us more than whatever temporary advantage we gain on our trade accounts from a devalued dollar.
Mr. SOLOMON: The package that lured us decade after decade was our pension and health care at no cost.
We hold on to the projects that have given our lives shape, even at the cost of losing all we care for.
"While the customer experience is much improved we still need to work on achieving consistency across all of our stores, and at an acceptable cost, " Mr King said.
If we surrender in Iraq, we will be back -- in Iraq and elsewhere -- in many more desperate fights to protect our security and at an even greater cost in American lives and treasure.
And according to our friends at the solar company Sungevity, the cost of the installation would be earned back with savings on the electric bill in the first five years, so an installation makes fiscal sense, as well.
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We can build a health care system that is more responsive to our needs and is delivered to more people at lower cost.
We believe that our competitors are now selling smaller diameter cores at cash cost in order to reduce inventory or to keep utilization rates high.
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With that, The Cloud has given us the ability to exponentially increase our capacity (and opportunities) at roughly the same cost as Mongo the Server.
In our consolidated balance sheet these shares are carried at cost rather than market, since they are owned by Mutual Savings and Loan, a non-insurance subsidiary.
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If we look at our business, we have pretty full aircraft, we're running really efficient aircraft in terms of our cost base, and we are seeing increased loyalty and support from our customers.
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Our best estimate at the moment is that the social cost grows by about 2.5% per year, so that preventing carbon dioxide emissions in 30 years time will be more than twice as valuable as preventing them today.
Our constant drive for selfish over-consumption at any cost, to benefit the few at the expense of the many and at the expense of Nature itself, is the real illness in our society that is causing all of this imbalance.
Some are general, like over-zealous pharmaceutical marketing or our culture-wide love-affair with winning at all cost.
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One of our biggest problems at the time was a prohibitively high upfront cost.
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"We have been prepping for a year for this at considerable financial, labor- and commitment-cost to our company, " Bowen said.
They are resource-intensive services that come at immense cost. 2012 is the year to open our eyes.
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Yet, Rep. Paul wants to take advantage of our youthful desire to please ourselves in the now at the cost of forfeiting the future.
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Across our business at Amazon, whenever we are able to create cost efficiencies like this, we want to pass the savings along to our customers.
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