Each RSL country manager has the autonomy to choose least-cost routing.
The San Antonio Spurs and the Toronto Raptors have roughly comparable payrolls, but the similarities end there: San Antonio won 61 games and ranks fourth in cost-effectiveness, while the woeful 22-win Raptors were the least cost-effective NBA team.
The 12 most cost-effective NBA teams all made the playoffs while none of the 10 least cost-efficient NBA teams made the playoffs.
Conversely, five of the 12 most cost-efficient NHL teams failed to make the playoffs whereas three of the 10 least cost-efficient teams skated into the post-season.
If legislators were completely rational, they would rank all taxpayer-paid measures to save lives, from the most to the least cost-effective, and fund from the top down.
Users also have the option of watching movies over a Wi-Fi connection, which would be a free or at least much lower-cost option than 3G.
Of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17.
According to McKinsey, America has the least cost-effective education system in the world.
In one analysis by the Office of Management and Budget, of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17.
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Apple takes an approach that often is the least cost-effective.
One thing Congress might want to do is to change tax law so that to qualify for the 401(k) tax break, a retirement plan must offer at least one low-cost option.
This latest North Korean provocation should cause critics of Mr. Bush's missile defense initiatives to recognize that we must now as a matter of the utmost urgency develop and deploy missile defenses in the places where they can do the most good at the least cost - namely, at sea and in space.
On average, such funds will perform better than at least half the higher-cost, actively-managed funds.
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And so if how we're gauging where a particular regulation is smart or not, part of what we're trying to do is at least apply rigorous cost-benefit analysis.
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As more of that content goes directly digital streaming, on-demand, or at least IP-delivered the cost of producing content will eventually outpace the ability to monetize it.
Most films made at the studio will be big-budget Hollywood features that would cost their producers at least one-third more to make in the United States.
In 2010, employers felt particularly strong pressure to give their employees at least a 3 percent cost-of-living increase, since their employees had gone without an increase the previous year.
Increasingly, A-listers are offering their properties to anyone -- or at least, anyone who can afford the sometimes eye-popping cost.
The staggering bit of this business - at least for anyone who's not in it - is the cost.
But it came at great cost -- not least to Misuari personally.
Its immediate objective should be to validate and bring to bear automated techniques for addressing in the most cost-effective and least time-consuming manner possible the most daunting challenge: Making the Nation's civilian (government and private sector) and military mainframe computers Year 2000-compliant.
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But games consoles can't be defended in this way - as their combination of high cost and lack of use puts them among the 10 least-effective purchases.
This suggests to me that the costs to entry are, if not literally cost-prohibitive, at least close to it.
Maybe they would like to be first in line for a low-cost loan, or at least to secure a spot ahead of subsidized Canadian competitors.
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The official answer to the first question is it won't really cost anything - or at least, nothing that will formally count as new spending or new debt.
What struck me, though, was how resilient the New Year's tradition is--even if it cost at least 33 lives, according to Chinese media reports, of people blown up by errant fireworks.
Mr Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said the committee had raised "a number of serious criticisms - not least on scope, proportionality, cost, checks and balances, and the need for much wider consultation".
In Singapore, which in September recorded only its first quarterly contraction in 13 years, government-linked conglomerate Keppel Corp. (No. 517) last week announced a much-needed cost-cutting and restructuring program, which will include the retrenchment of at least 300 employees by year's end, as well as wage cuts.
Last time I checked, North Atlantic salmon cost at least twice as much as farm-raised, but I assume Danson is well off thanks to his day job.
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