Fuel, after all, is not just a source of emissions for the shipping industry, it is a cost, so higher fuel prices mean that more efficient shippers will have a greater cost and profitability advantage.
Local manufacturing and distribution should bring a big cost advantage over Fuji, and lots of goodwill from the Chinese government.
The latter, after all, enjoys two distinct advantages over the former: (1) Orbiting sensors and interceptors are cheaper to build and maintain on the order of a 3-to-1 cost advantage and (2) they offer continuous, global defense coverage.
The latter, after all, enjoys two distinct advantages over the former: (1) Orbiting sensors and interceptors are cheaper to build and maintain -- on the order of a 3-to-1 cost advantage -- and (2) they offer continuous, global defense coverage.
We concentrate on manufacturing, where we have a cost advantage, and they do the marketing, whereby they help us take it to other emerging markets and the developed world.
If MLPs were to become taxed at the corporate level, they would lose their cost of capital advantage and would likely not be able to pay and grow their distributions at the same rates.
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Consumers are buying cars and homes, finally, to take advantage of low cost mortgage and car loan rates.
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Now Intel is combining its cost advantage over AMD and embrace of cooler chips to take back the high-end server business.
And, if there are increasing returns then the agglomeration of lots of developers into this world will mean lower cost products and an even stronger advantage to enter ingapp development.
The standards, pushed by rich countries, were not made binding, in part because some developing nations suspected that the real motive was to reduce their wage-cost advantage and to give rich countries an excuse to discriminate against poor-country exports rather than to protect workers.
This would slash the incentives behind outsourced labor: By 2015, the labor-cost advantage between China and low-cost U.S. states will dwindle from 55% to 39%, and the savings gained from outscouring will drop to single digits for many products, according to the Harvard research.
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High-cost cities (mainly on the coasts) had a shrinking information advantage over low-cost cities and towns (mainly in the boonies).
Silicon photonics made with inexpensive silicon rather than expensive and exotic optical materials provides a distinct cost advantage over older optical technologies in addition to providing greater speed, reliability and scalability benefits.
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Also joining this band of worthwhile purchases are newcomers such as digital radios and shredders, where the cost and usage work out to the advantage of the buyer.
Organizations that encourage innovative thinking around technology approaches, then stay out of the way when employees move these ideas forward, will see greater cost savings, and ultimately, competitive advantage.
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That is true in theory, but until recently the societies charged much the same prices as the banks, and used their inbuilt cost advantage to build up their reserves.
Small and mid-sized companies will be able to access some of the most comprehensive enterprise- class solutions available today, and Sprint will make it easier for them to take advantage of cloud services and experience the cost savings, scalability and flexibility needed to help them grow.
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As a result, the foreign competition often operates at a cost advantage in the United States and in other markets that enables it to sell profitably at lower prices than U.S. firms can charge.
Thuan Phan, who spends about half the year as a sales engineer, points out that the advantage in space and cost goes to small earphones that block noise by sealing off the ear canal.
All these crises are alike in that the bankers play the yield curve and push money out to doubtful borrowers in order to get maximum advantage of the spread between the cost of borrowing short term and lending long term.
This move will allow HP to take advantage of the flexibility and cost benefits associated with using non-dedicated factories.
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Investors are holding back and borrowers are giving up the cost advantage of commercial paper, willingly or not, to ensure that they have access to cash for years to come.
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Ocwen has long emphasized its cost advantages and low operating expenses as a competitive advantage, with at least three-quarters of its 5, 000 employees based in India and Uruguay, where it says its per-employee costs are one-eighth of those of a U.S. worker.
Second, the biggest part of unit growth in the years ahead is likely to be in smaller, economy models where affordability is the key consideration and where local assemblers have a decided cost advantage.
The main cost advantage that central Europe has over Germany and France is not low taxes, but low wages: an average Slovak worker is paid about a fifth as much as his German counterpart.
This specific architecture was selected, largely because it utilizes an evolvable development approach, which allows NASA to address high-cost development activities early on in the program and take advantage of higher buying power before inflation erodes the available funding of a fixed budget.
Or it could be that bigger banks capitalized on the fact that they received the most government assistance during the crisis and continue to enjoy a cost-of-funding advantage.
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Now it is common for studies to be conducted in many countries, often taking advantage of the cost savings available when doctors and patients live in emerging markets like India or parts of Russia.
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Definitely an advantage in being able to reduce your commuter cost and stay at home with family.
The larger Walgreen could also eventually take advantage of the lower-cost environment to make and develop private-label products in emerging markets for both its pharmacy and its health and beauty businesses .
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