First quarter earnings fell 23% from the year before due to a one-time cost associated with the recall of a hip device.
At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.
Also, competing on advertising spending in not a one-time cost but if Colgate chooses to play on this turf, it would need to sustain the heightened level of media and advertising spends in the future.
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The Scots trudged off the Netherdale pitch for the last time as Reivers players, their team a victim of cost-cutting, and Townsend for the last time as a professional.
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Digital marketing and digital disruption affords a speed, a real-time use with lesser cost for marketers.
But even comparing costs can get complicated: A commission-free ETF may cost more, over time, than a similar fund that requires paying a commission but has a lower expense ratio, notes Joel Dickson, senior investment strategist at Vanguard Group.
We set a 10-year time horizon so the cost can be digestible and affordable.
Note that Wikibon defines big data as data sets whose size, type and speed of creation make them impractical to process and analyze with traditional database technologies and related tools in a cost- or time-effective way.
But filing subpoenas to get information quickly to identify and locate a suspect could cost life-saving time.
The golf prodigy with the squeaky-clean image had just confessed to infidelity in a tangled drama that cost Woods, at the time the highest-paid athlete in the world, millions of dollars in dropped endorsements.
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They also talk of building a new plant for a new small car, which would cost a fortune, but ignore their at-one-time hugely profitable rear-drive platform.
With Fairfax's share price almost at an all-time low, a full takeover would cost her relatively little.
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Furthermore, GM is also expected to bring a mini SUV called Trax and a low cost version of its entry level car Spark, although launch time-frame for these cars is not confirmed yet.
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Meanwhile, Saint Louis University's part-time program launched a micro-scholarship program last year: Students can apply to have the cost of one course remitted by the school so they can stay enrolled.
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Maze had a near-perfect first run, but a poor start to the second cost her valuable time and she finished 0.08 seconds behind Vonn.
They have raised their per-viewer rates 110%in the last ten years, despite a 30% decline in their prime-time audience, more than making up for a 30% increase in the cost of living.
At the same time, there remains a significant focus on cost-cutting, Mr. Cudahy said.
"We need more time to show we can make it a cost-effective, quality unit, " Mrs Cosslett said.
Speed is also a factor: Cost-plus deals diminish negotiating time once the contractor's fee has been set.
Plus there are dockage and registration fees, taxes, insurance and the cost of a good mari-time attorney.
The central bank might have issued the currency during a time of near-zero interest rates, when the cost to people of holding extra currency was nothing.
Over time, if Apple chose to make a low-cost phone like the one described earlier, it could make a 960 x 540 display that worked in the same widescreen form factor.
An innovative proposal has been offered by Dr. Morris Davis, the inventor of a program known as Transition Software that has demonstrated impressive capabilities to accomplish such corrective action on mainframe computers in a fraction of the time -- and at far less cost -- than is currently associated with human review of each line of code.
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The cost of a similar nonsports prime-time ad, by contrast, fell 14% last year from 2007.
Ms. Rees-Mogg, who has five full-time employees, says cost was a big factor in recently choosing SAP's offering.
Truth is, though, that in most cases, they're moving around in a more efficient, cost-effective car the whole time.
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Such mood swings are common among investors in this capital-intensive industry that has a hard time earning its cost of capital.
Meanwhile, during the same time frame, the cost to nutritiously feed a four-person family rose by more than 40%, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
At the same time the company revealed a quarterly loss, despite ongoing cost-cutting efforts.
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