The cost of assembling personal computers will rise this year for the first time in six years because of shortages in some key components, industry analysts have forecast.

行业分析师预计，今年个人电脑的组装成本将出现6年来的首次上升，原因是一些关键部件供应短缺。

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A major driver of internationalization of business has been Labour shortages and costs in established markets, and the availability of low-cost production in newly industrialized regions.

经营国际化的一个最主要的动因是旧有市场中劳动力的短缺和成本问题，以及新兴工业国家和地区的低成本生产。

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This paper analyzes the shortages of current cost management of coal enterprise, and advances some methods and countermeasures for strengthening the modern cost management.

对煤炭企业现行成本管理方法的不足进行了分析，在此基础上提出了加强现代成本管理的方法及对策。

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However it has been limited by subsidy reforms which have increased the cost of fuel and electricity, as well as by shortages of increasingly-expensive raw materials.

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But much of the cynicism is centered on corn-based ethanol that some consider not just an inefficient fuel source but also one that also creates food shortages, driving up the cost of feed for livestock producers.

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Even though adding disks and heads increases the cost of the hard disk drive, in the current environment of higher HDD prices due to shortages from the Thailand floods of 2011 gives some additional leeway for higher prices to pay for the additional components.

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