On the other hand, the health care sector is not as sensitive to the rise in commodity prices and it tends to enjoy more pricing power, which means increases in costs get passed onto the consumer and profit margins are unscathed.

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On the one hand, it lowers interest costs, which increases earnings and cash flow.

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The problem is that the more businesses expand to deal with growth (and then to maintain it), the more complexity increases organizational costs.

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It said increases in wages, lower ticket sales and restructuring costs all contributed to the loss.

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It increases costs to the consumer, to the candy manufacturer and forces them elsewhere, it enlarges the profits of the grower.

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The improved ability to scale infrastructure up or down to meet dynamically changing and new business needs increases business ability while shared IT infrastructure not only reduces hardware acquisition costs but also results in significant savings in IT staffing costs and data center space, power, and cooling.

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It delays marriage, incurs debt, increases the opportunity costs of childbearing and significantly increases the expense of raising a child.

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Sadly, it looks more likely that extra money will trickle away, in wage increases and other inflated costs.

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It blamed the increases on the extra cost of using the gas and electricity networks and rising costs in energy wholesale markets.

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The NAO report added that the MoD's spending over-commitments led to it having to renegotiate and delay contracts, which was "destabilising" and "leads to significant increases in costs".

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