Everyone was also expected to send in a bi-weekly report on how they were doing on their cost control drive.
Brands can tap into these strong celebrity followings on social media like never before to cost effectively drive customer acquisition.
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Macy's prices some of its specials at or below cost to drive traffic, said Martine Reardon, the chain's executive vice president of marketing and advertising.
New regulations and drilling restrictions will raise the cost of offshore production which will drive up the cost of oil.
The Times newspaper reports the project will be shelved as part of a government cost-cutting drive.
Or there would be a cost-cutting drive, and the KM program would be one of the sacrifices.
Guernsey's retained firefighters' section is being disbanded as part of a cost-cutting drive.
Sharp has embarked upon a major cost-cutting drive that could see it cutting 5, 000 jobs - around 15% of its workforce.
Northcliffe's advertising revenue fell 10% and it cut employee numbers by 19%, or 602 people, during the year as part of a cost-cutting drive.
In fact, it was the decision by the board to go for foundation trust status that contributed to much of the cost-cutting drive that undermined care.
We all believe that the open-source nature of the Hadoop framework will drive cost down, and most importantly create new value and innovation in a very short time frame.
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The newspaper said plans to build a 10-mile long tidal barrage, that could generate up to 5% of Britain's electricity, are likely to be shelved under a government cost-cutting drive.
Strategy should drive cost, not the other way around.
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Cost cuts should drive cash flow growth.
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It was the board which took the decision to pursue a cost-cutting drive to achieve foundation trust status and it was the board which refused to listen to the complaints of patients and - at times - staff.
The ability to support this exponential rise in traffic will continue to pressure the entire Ethernet eco-system to continue to drive cost per bit downward, so that manufacturers, service providers and users can be offered cost-effective, standards-based solutions, products and services.
Given those challenges and costs, it is therefore necessary to drive the cost per kilowatt-hour down.
Such large studies can drive the cost of developing new medicines to hundreds of millions of dollars.
The obvious downside here, is that higher temperatures require more power and more rugged components that could drive up cost.
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At the same time, interest rates in the US are currently near record lows - helping drive down cost of raising funds for companies.
The drive on cost reduction, along with Mr Ellison's previously unsuspected appetite for detail and process, astounded everybody at Oracle, not least Mr Lane.
Moreover, CMS chooses as the final price the median among the winning bids, instead of marginal cost, which would drive pricing in a competitive market.
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The drive provides cost savings for IT departments or DIY enthusiasts who want to extend the life of their existing PCs without buying an entirely new system.
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Present low-carbon energy deployment strategies assume that greater economies of scale will drive big cost reductions, but the historical record suggest that this is less the case than normally assumed.
Companies now are racing to make the components faster and drive the cost much lower, so that optical connections can also accelerate communications inside and among PCs and consumer-electronics devices.
And thus there will come a time when silicon cells are simply an inexpensive commodity: it will be the innovators who can reduce installation costs who will drive further cost reductions.
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