Hospital stays are getting shorter, driven by cost-saving initiatives, making it even more likely that these seniors will need outside help at some point in their lives.
Touch sensing helps increase product lifetimes by eliminating mechanical wear and tear associated with buttons and switches, while minimizing system cost by saving an extra IC in the design.
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Instead, I'll pay for part of it by implementing the cost saving measures I outlined in May.
The company hopes to build demand by pitching them as cost-saving "print on demand" machines that work best when connected to HP computing hardware.
The company sees a significant cost saving opportunity by combining the two entities and managing a lean, centralized work force for sales and management.
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Bundled fee arrangements which were promoted by custodians as supposedly cost-saving to pensions have emerged as a costly flaw in the business model of the industry.
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The UKBA is due to lose 5, 000 posts by 2015 as part of government cost-saving measures.
This saving is more than paid for by the value of the saved generating capacity, so the net cost of saving the gas itself is less than zero.
It would have made more sense to introduce this product to millions of new people by emphasizing fun, unique flavors or cost-saving benefits.
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Often companies are surprised at how little they actually end up saving by sourcing to a low cost country, once they consider all the ancillary costs.
Compulsory saving, by contrast, loads the cost on to today's workers, in effect with an extra tax.
By collecting these payments through the tax system, and channelling them to private funds chosen by employees, the state will cut the cost of saving and increase its value.
One is a migration from contracts calling for arbitration by three-person panels to that by a single arbitrator - which can be a cost-saving move because it entails paying only one arbitrator.
Nor are we saving ourselves some sort of long-term cost by enduring this short-term pain.
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Would the life-saving procedures that saved her have been deemed cost-effective by policy makers deciding where to spend increasingly scarce tax dollars?
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Therefore, if bundling has not been cost saving but has, in fact, been a device conceived by global custodial banks to enhance their profits though hidden and excessive fees, self-dealing and other forms of wrongdoing, then taxpayers, as well as participants in the plans, have paid the price.
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Despite Loggans' warning, there's never been a better time to cut the cost of an expensive hobby by turning it into a moneymaking (or a moneylosing, but tax-saving) sideline.
"The health board has put cost saving plans into action and reduced overspends, and we are now forecasting a break even position by the end of this financial year, " said a spokesperson.
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