By comparison, in dealing with the vast realms of low-content data, just about the only way to cost-effectively refine down to the good stuff will be through high-powered data compression.
When teacher unions have power, education budgets go up but cost-effectiveness goes down.
And a lot of mortgage brokers are presenting to them different, like Mr. Weller said, exotic ways to bring that cost down - reverse amortization loans, interest-only loans, teaser loans.
Europe's low-budget carriers, unlike some of their bigger name rivals, have thrived by operating slimmed-down, low-cost operations.
Given those challenges and costs, it is therefore necessary to drive the cost per kilowatt-hour down.
All this adds up to less debt, but at the cost of a slimmed-down middle class.
The slimming-down of RBS and the cost-cutting integration of the operations of Lloyds and HBOS have yet to take their full toll.
In July, European finance ministers proposed making the EFSF more flexible, allowing it to buy individual government bonds - which would bring down the cost of borrowing for heavily indebted nations - and to offer emergency credit lines to banks.
But it might also translate into low-cost vacations for you down the road.
Under the asset purchasing programme the central bank buys bonds in order to keep the long-term cost of borrowing down.
He made 29 acquisitions, shut down high-cost operations in places like Belgium and opened new factories with cheaper labor in Hungary and elsewhere.
At the same time, interest rates in the US are currently near record lows - helping drive down cost of raising funds for companies.
Car companies often resort to cost-cutting measures such as toning down the exterior or doing away with a swanky dashboard with high-end features for a simple, no frills interior.
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Yet Jaffe feels strongly that her patients need someone to hunt down lower-cost options, negotiate with insurers, and find other ways to help them to get the medical care she thinks they need.
Dr Baker says the challenge is to get the cost of a small-satellite launcher down to a few million, and he is so excited by the possibilities that he is leaving his employer to join Virgin Galactic.
Money should be invested to bring down the cost of de-salination for people's water supplies as population grows.
Prabhat Dayal, the chief of the Rajasthan Energy Development Agency, is optimistic about bringing down the cost of solar-generated electricity.
Enhancing the efficiency of energy use is, hands down, the most cost-effective way to mitigate the environmental impact of energy use while fueling economic growth.
Bringing down the cost of cutting-edge research is important, Perfetto says, because resource-constrained operations like garages, schools, and researchers in the developing world inherently think different.
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More than 20 ministries and departments, led by the Ministry of Commerce, will hold a two-day conference about logistics and cost-related bottlenecks that get passed on down to consumers.
"By bringing optical fibres in some of the networks, by just closing the loops, you will avoid excessive Internet transit costs, bringing down the cost by two-thirds, " he said.
Most of the advice offered by full-service firms can be boiled down to simple asset allocation and diversification using low-cost indexed mutual funds, Schwab says.
Such techniques have pushed the cost of carrying traffic on fiber down to about 1% of what it would cost on all-electronic equipment, and it will keep falling.
In fact, the cost of software-driven machines is driving manufacturing down, as our strange rise in productivity during a recession suggests.
If legislators were completely rational, they would rank all taxpayer-paid measures to save lives, from the most to the least cost-effective, and fund from the top down.
It found that 2003 was a good year for consumers, with competition driving down the cost of a high-speed net connection over the phone line via ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
If lawyers are able to spend 60 cents instead of a dollar on litigation expenses, they will naturally take chances on riskier suits because their risk-adjusted cost of doing business has gone down.
First Solar, long the king of low-cost manufacturing, decided to gradually shut down its big factory in Germany and put on hold its plans to build new factories in Vietnam and Arizona.
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Eventually, says Gruber, his fermenting process will be adapted to use corn stalks or wheat straw--known as stover and now sold as cheap animal feed or plowed back into soil--to further knock down the cost.
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