The cost target is tough, but there are plenty of other hurdles at home.
The integration of ISP is currently underway and the company expects to achieve its cost synergy target in fiscal 2013.
The cost cut target was set out by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer in a memo sent to each of the company's 57, 000 staff this week.
"There is no cost-reduction target in the price control, " said Ofgem communications manager Mark Wiltsher.
Even though we are building what could be considered a budget system we didn't want to make sacrifices just to hit a target cost.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Costco (COST), Target (TGT) and Home Depot (HD) are the leaders I went over on CNBC Asia a few months back for macro investors to look at.
Many of the two chains' stores compete in the same markets, making them an obvious target for cost cuts.
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Even when cost-reduction is a target, the plans for realising it are often worryingly sketchy.
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When unmanned drones and other airstrikes target militants but cost many civilian lives, it turns people against the United States.
They may be marking time to retirement and are concerned that their relatively high pay makes them a target for corporate cost cutters.
The legislation also increases the deficit reduction target for the Joint Committee by the amount of the cost of the jobs package and specifies that, if the Committee reaches that higher target, then their measures would replace and turn off the specific offsets in this legislation.
The cost of making a short-term target is that long-term business generally suffers.
The most obvious way for the Fed to help is to lower the federal funds rate target, which sets the cost of borrowing, from its level of 2%.
HSBC's ROE was 8.4 per cent, well short of the target 12-15 per cent range, and its worsened cost-income ratio was 62.8 per cent, compared with the 48-50 per cent target, reflecting the fact that the bank still has restructuring work to complete.
Sears competes with other low-cost retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and Gap.
"If we don't have a clear rule on cost we are not going to reach our target group, " he said.
Shelby held two factors responsible for mass affluent people pushing back their target retirement dates: the rising cost of healthcare and excessively conservative investment choices.
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Cahoot, with only 56 staff, wants to attract customers by being the lowest-cost players in the market and plans to target the individual needs of customers.
Also, given the nature of these systems (industrial software that controls power plants, like SCADA systems), it would have to be developed in a replication of the target environment an immense cost to reconstruct and an effort in intelligence collection.
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In addition, mainline retailers Wal-Mart ( WMT), Target ( TGT) and Costco ( COST) have ramped up office-product offerings.
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Third, both parties should target the actual source of mistrust: cost projections.
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Intensifying price pressure from super-discounters like Wal-Mart ( WMT), Target ( TGT) and Costco ( COST) threaten to make margins even slimmer.
Walmart (WMT) was a favorite shopping destination, with Nikki willing to drive past rivals Target (TGT) and Costco (COST) just to get there.
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The one-to-one link between the peso and the dollar has restored some faith in recent years, removing the thousand-per-cent inflation common before the 1990s, but at the cost of exports which are priced out of their target markets.
When such missiles cost a thousand dollars rather than a million, no target will be too cheap to engage.
The 5% target was what the Treasury calls the deadweight cost.
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Exploits against information systems are particularly attractive to organized crime and state actors because of the richness of the target environment, the ease of exploitation, low cost of attack development, reasonably strong anonymity and difficulties in attribution, and the practical shortfalls of international legal frameworks and law enforcement regimes.
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It's possible that new drugs which themselves target cancer in several ways at once may provide some cost advantages.
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