Committee chairman Margaret Hodge said inefficient funding systems and poor cost control had driven up the cost of the programme.
Meanwhile, Pathmark gets relief from its biggest problem--a bloated cost structure driven by wage and health care inflation.
Much of the cost was driven by the need to replace sensitive signal and communications equipment that was wrecked by salt corrosion from the flood.
The cost differential is driven by air pollution, interconnection and the economics of fuel efficiency.
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For years, Tesco managers paid attention to perfecting the mix of supplier driven cost efficiencies with low prices.
However, this cost has been driven in large part by escalating carriage fees.
The cost has been driven up by a drop in production - attributed to the harsh winter and strained economy.
Instead they end up relying on a purely numbers driven cost argument.
Consultants offering outsourced services, like IBM and Accenture, have also done well as cost pressures have driven other companies to use their services.
By mandating the benefits, Connecticut has driven the cost of this extra coverage down to almost zero.
The link between Sweden's Pharmacia and America's Upjohn in 1995 was supposed to be driven by cost-cutting and matching drug portfolios.
In fact, the cost of software-driven machines is driving manufacturing down, as our strange rise in productivity during a recession suggests.
The declining cost of smartphones has driven the rapid growth of the number of people accessing the Internet via their mobile devices, Smith said.
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Military procurement has long been driven by cost and availability of additional software--two measures where Macintosh computers have typically come up short against Windows-based PCs.
We'll hear too far, too risky, too driven by cost cutting from those afraid of the implications of those decisions for their parents, their children, themselves.
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.
First, solar module prices have plummeted, driving a whopping 70% increase in installations in 2012 even as some high-cost manufacturers have been driven out of business.
The timing of the sales shortfall is inopportune as it comes at a time when investors are looking for real sales growth, having grown tired of earnings growth driven by cost cuts.
While revenue growth was low in Q3 2012, CBS did demonstrate significant growth in its profits driven by cost controls and increasing contribution of high margin revenue streams such as digital licensing and re-transmission fee.
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If a company's competitors have quickly replicated its product and driven down the cost, the game has changed.
Operating margin on home sales improved 440 basis points to 11.2%, driven by tight cost controls and price increases.
This has driven the average cost of each piece of mail up from 34 cents in 2006 to 41 cents.
Cost-cutting is being driven by two forces: new distribution channels and mergers.
This is expected to be driven mainly by cost savings in Indonesia where higher grade ore and economies of scale will bring down costs by nearly 50%.
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Mr Duncan Smith said the current system had created a "landlords' charter to raise rents" which had driven up the cost of housing for the wider population.
Although fierce competition has driven down the cost of mobile calls within national borders to a few cents a minute, the cost of using a mobile phone abroad is still sky-high.
Economists tell us that outsourcing has driven down the cost of everything from the clothes and household items we buy at WalMart to the cost of social marketing, ad creation and even telephone services.
At the heart of the issue is whether a health system that once had few cost controls is now being driven by too many, in some cases to keep shareholders happy with fat profits.
As Messrs Burrough and Helyar recount, firms such as RJR Nabisco suffered long-term damage to their brand and market share due to aggressive cost-cutting that was driven by the need to pay off debt and interest.
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It was held in private and reported in February, saying the trust had become driven by targets and cost-cutting.
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