The good news is that, just as businesses are transforming their processes by investing in technologies such as cloud computing and big data analytics to lower operating costs, increase quality, make better decisions, and boost productivity, schools can do the same.

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The one area the teams differed financially during the 2009 season was in operating income where the Steelers earned almost twice as much thanks to lower player costs.

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These developments are likely to result in accelerated decommissioning costs, increased capital expenditures for higher cost replacement generation, lower reserve margins, and higher operating costs at existing nuclear plants as a result of increased scrutiny, more stringent safety procedures, and longer required maintenance outages.

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Meanwhile, as gold prices rose in recent years, companies often turned to lower-grade projects that have higher per-ounce operating costs.

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