But restraints on imports do nothing to help it reduce its high cost-base.
Qinetiq, which has major sites in Farnborough, Malvern and Boscombe Down, said it needed to cut jobs as part of a widespread review of its UK cost-base following cuts in the Ministry of Defence's research budget.
In July, Netflix shocked their industry-low-cost-leader video customer base with an abrupt out-of-nowhere 60% price increase.
"Somewhere the next Hyundai is out there, working from a low-cost base, " Liker says.
He added that Tesco should have an advantage over its traditional rivals with its lower fixed-cost base, benefiting from its Internet base as well as its ability to set up shop at Tesco hypermarkets.
But cosmetic changes to the brand won't solve deeper issues at Citi--namely a cost base that is growing faster than the rate of revenue growth.
Finally, it is more cost-effective in the long run to keep the B-2 industrial base open.
The firm, partly funded by Statoil, Norway's energy giant, estimates that each will cost about as much as a fixed-base turbine placed in 30 or 40 metres of water.
After 20 years in the service, retirees are entitled to a pension worth half their base pay and low-cost health insurance, but that rarely provides enough compensation for most to stop working.
Such support translates into a cost-effective way to help preserve an aerospace industrial base at a time when it is reeling, and contracting, due to dangerously reduced defense budgets.
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The answer to the bandwidth shortage could be cost-effective cell splitting, complementing the existing wide area base stations with a large number of smaller base stations.
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Estimated first-year electricity cost before solar: These assumptions included base rates, fees and taxes, and factor in typical regional power loads, according to Heather Van Schoiack, spokeswoman at Clean Power Research.
An insurance company based in Alabama, when selling to someone in California, is not going to base their premiums on the cost of a triple-bypass in Mobile.
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And, further, there are indications that Apple is planning to expand its customer base later this year with a lower-cost iPhone for emerging markets (think India, China, et al.) where consumers tend to pay the full price at retail, not the subsidized contract prices we are spoiled by here.
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The manufacturing base in China was initially built on low-cost and lower-skill jobs, such as clothing and footwear.
In these locations it can be traditionally either too difficult or costly to deploy a macro cell base station. lightRadio Metro Radio will provide a cost-effective alternative.
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Foster research on the development, use, evaluation and re-contextualisation of OER as well as on the opportunities and challenges they present, and their impact on the quality and cost-efficiency of teaching and learning in order to strengthen the evidence base for public investment in OER.
It is a source of base load, low-carbon and largely fixed-cost power for many utilities.
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Combined with a new, streamlined organization, a substantially improved cost base, a strengthened capital structure, and a more customer-oriented culture, we have all the right measures in place to create shareholder value going forward.
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But a nicer gesture for your fan-base is to find some baseball minds and strategists that have a history of cost-effectively running a successful major league franchise.
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The cost to countries of nutrient over-enrichment from the degradation of their marine and coastal natural resource base, and the services and livelihoods it provides, will increase without improved policy responses.
They point out that America's manufacturing base has been cut down by years of competition from China and other lower-cost countries.
Pessimism, because so much of the extra money has simply raised the cost base of the health service and because bringing down waiting times has owed much to command-and-control techniques.
This quarter, Baidu excelled on cost management and gained traction in ad sales to larger enterprises, expanding on its customer base of small- and medium-sized firms, said New York-based analyst Colin W. Gillis, who tracks Baidu for Canaccord Adams.
These come into force 14 days from the signing of its agreement with the US regulator and will require the people reporting the bank's cost of borrowing for the BBA to base that report on actual transactions that Barclays has been involved in - in other words, on actual loans it has obtained or made on the wholesale market.
The Stirling-based group said it expected the "fiberising" equipment to improve product quality and further reduce its cost base.
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