Local standards limit housing, utilities, and transportation expenses, including vehicle ownership as well as operating costs.
The company also warns that there are risks unique to its industry, including competition for key players, as well as increases in operating costs, such as player salaries and transfer costs.
Hostess blamed its bakers for its problems, and many commentators have been quick to cite other reasons such as unsustainable operating costs, private-equity backers that loaded Hostess with too much debt, and increasingly health-conscious consumers who no longer want Twinkies, Ho Hos, and Donettes.
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The trick for investors is to find trusts that have sufficient wells to generate the necessary cash to cover dividends, as well as interest and operating costs.
In the first quarter, ending Jan. 2, store operating costs as a percent of revenue jumped 1.1 percentage points from the previous year to 32.8%.
The acquiring firm would pay little or nothing up front, but would likely be expected to cover ongoing operating costs as the bankruptcy case proceeded.
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Partly, this reflects the falling cost of distribution, as digitisation has cut annual operating costs.
Analysts expect banks will reduce operating costs by as much as 20% over the next three years.
The airline aims to keep its fleet young with more fuel-efficient planes to reduce costs, as fuel accounts for nearly 40% of its operating costs.
The company said operating costs, such as wages and site rental, were much cheaper in Poland.
He acknowledges that his "day job" subsidizes certain Moonalice operating costs, such as the satellite hookup.
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The question is essentially the same as, what are the total operating costs of the global ISP industry?
Gathering donations via text messages would cut the Salvation Army's operating costs, and as a result would free up more money for the needy.
They can raise prices only so much without decreasing sales, and many have already done so because of higher operating costs, such as commodity and gas prices and health-care premiums.
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His view is that auto premiums will, of course, go down but that claims and other operating costs will, as well, so insurance will be a more profitable business for the survivors.
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Disney has high operating leverage as the bulk of its costs are fixed.
Regional carrier Cincinnati Bell was faced with a problem: Customers were returning too many Android devices, and operating costs were slowly rising as a result.
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Community banks are particularly hard hit, as compliance costs as a share of operating expenses are two-and-a-half times greater for them than for large banks.
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Barrick said it is looking to sell some non-core assets such as its energy unit, as well as mines with short lives and high operating costs.
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John Robertson, an economist in Harare, says the country's hyper-inflation is being driven primarily by the government borrowing money to cover recurring costs such as wages and operating expenses.
And while the bank was helped by higher fee-based income streams over the last two quarters, it lacked such a benefit this time around with better net income figures resulting from improved operating costs and reduced provisions as described above.
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Building reactors, such as the 1, 000 megawatt unit Egypt plans to develop west of Alexandria, is expensive, but subsequent operating costs are low and stable, and increasingly competitive as fossil-fuel prices rise.
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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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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However, investors cited rising wage and operating costs resulting from a stronger local currency as a concern for the coming quarters.
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By the Sixties, old-style movie making was dead, as were the studios that would not adapt and shed operating costs fast enough.
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"These positive results continued to build on the momentum of the past few quarters as the Company was able to increase revenues and decrease operating costs, " CEO Janet L.RobinsonJanet L. Robinson said.
The students signed a contract and serve as unpaid employees, and Dr Pepper Snapple covers operating expenses and travel costs.
"With the cloud you have more recurring costs you can finance out of operating funds, as opposed to digging into your capital fund, and you have way less responsibility for maintaining, upgrading and protecting all this hardware every few years, " says Mr. Daher.
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