The food giant attributed the growth to effective cost management and to a prescient investment in its iconic brands.
But the most important thing the central bank can do is to ease tensions in the money markets and reduce the effective cost of money.
So the cost of trade continues to fall, and that lowers the effective cost of everything that's traded: raw materials, labor, durable assets, consumer goods, capital, commodities and money itself.
The real benefits of home ownership are any capital appreciation, plus the imputed rent, minus the effective cost of the mortgage and property taxes, other costs, and the return you could earn on your down payment elsewhere.
One argument carried through many of these articles deserves more scrutiny: the notion that the effective cost of auto transportation will drop so dramatically that there will be a substantial shift away from car ownership to reliance on third-party fleets, available on demand.
MoPub published its fourth quarter 2012 marketplace report which showed strong trends with over 50% gains in just two months in eCPMs (effective cost per thousand impressions). iOS had the benefit of not just capturing higher prices but also had a larger increase at 66% vs.
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Influencing public opinion abroad is the most effective, adaptable, cost-effective and humane means of leveraging tax dollars to promote national security.
Unfortunately, this remarkably effective and cost-efficient system is threatened.
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So that is part of kind of an internal rebalancing within Asia that the United States is making in order to be effective, efficient, cost-effective, and able to take on the challenges that we face.
The ability to measure enables more cost-effective investments and more substantial cost reductions.
Although this is more cost effective for its customers, cloud-based Office software will cost Microsoft more when compared to supplying software that is installed on the computers and servers of customers.
But among the key barriers to expanded deployments of CO2-based EOR are the lack of economic CO2, the lack of cost-effective method of sequestering and transporting it, and the cost of compressing the gas.
The future of oil sands is here: they are cost effective and their face is green.
There may very well be a small part of national coordination that is cost effective.
From an economic point of view, it gives us more capacity and is more cost effective.
However, the new clinical data may drive hospitals and patients towards cost effective laproscopic hysterectomy.
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There is no more cost effective means for deterring corporate malfeasance than embracing whistleblowers.
They are, from what I understand, more cost effective than the alternatives as well.
An edgier but highly effective path to cost-cutting is literally cutting pills in half.
We realized that continuing to do the installation ourselves would no longer be cost effective.
Overall Facebook has made its servers 38% more energy efficient and 24% more cost effective.
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Your customers expect you to be lean and innovative, offering them products that are cost effective.
Dorset County Council says repairing the A338 Bournemouth Spur Road is no longer cost effective.
So while regulations often improved the environment they were not always the most cost effective.
According to Mr Rae, combining schemes where appropriate would be more efficient and cost effective.
Installing extra cards at the time you build a site is also cost effective.
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Operating bowl games in this manner has arguably proven cost effective for ESPN Regional Television.
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Newvem launched a new tool that helps enterprises take advantage of cost effective AWS services.
More expansive regulatory compliance makes larger loans to bigger businesses more cost effective than financing small businesses.
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