Worries that investors may balk at a company with such baggage has forced underwriters Goldman Sachs Asia and China International Capital Corp. to scale down the size of the offering and cut the stock's asking price.
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Its strategy is simple: cut costs in the mail business and buy scale in others.
So we asked ourselves, what if we cut out those middlemen and connected small-scale farmers in Latin America directly to consumers here?
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But universities will have to spend on technology and seek economies of scale if they are to improve quality, cut costs, keep the students they have and woo more.
In a cut-scene, Raiden can scale walls and leap from missile to incoming missile.
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First, the cable-television business is one where scale can help cut costs (and hopefully prices).
Starting in the late 1990s, dentists began banding together under DSOs, taking advantage of economies of scale in order to cut overhead costs and provide quality service at much lower prices.
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This will give CP All a certain scale and the potential to squeeze suppliers and cut costs (merger synergies in financial parlance).
The world's nations will have to be ranked on a sliding scale with the richest polluters expected to cut most and contribute most cash towards helping the poor get clean energy and adapt to climate change.
Slower growth would in turn hamper their ability to harness economies of scale in order to lower transaction costs and cut rates of their own accord, as many including the biggest for-profit MFIs have done in the past.
The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.
If you can keep a lid on spending, the scale of the problem is cut in half in one and a half presidential terms without having to do much more than make sure the statisticians have a slightly quirky inflation model.
With discounting squeezing profit margins down to 3-4% and the Internet threatening to cut them further, Europe's big operators see scale as their best defence.
More importantly, RBS will likely have to substantially scale back its investment banking business, and has already been asked to cut back on activities that require large amounts of capital.
Asia's leading airlines are slashing business-class fares through special promotions on a scale not seen since the global financial crisis, as banks continue to cut travel budgets and staff.
To achieve the same scale of cut in the United States, we'd have to abolish both Social Security and Medicare.
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