Competitors shave costs and boost margins doing what for Thor would be unthinkable--sharing engineering, development and manufacturing.

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Integration program costs will shave 31 cents from EPS, while spin-off transaction costs should subtract a further 2 cents.

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That may shave millions in reserve costs every year.

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But if Casey's can't outwit the commodities market, it can at least shave a few pennies off costs.

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While the rest of the company works to shave another 5% off the costs of supplies and wrestles with the union to close plants here and there and give up some health care benefits, Burns could cut GM's Gordian knot with the simplest element in the universe.

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PriceWaterhouseCoopers, for instance, estimates it can shave 15 to 25 percent off your HR costs.

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If all goes as planned, GM hopes that the coordinated global strategy will shave 30% to 50% off its engineering costs, which account for as much as half of the costs of developing a new vehicle, according to James Queen, GM's engineering head.

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If all goes as planned, GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) hopes the coordinated global strategy will shave 30% to 50% off its engineering costs, which account for up to half of the costs of developing a new vehicle, according to James Queen , GM's engineering chief.

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