We are also encouraged by URS' strong free cash flow generation, which is a result of its variable-cost focus.
Increasingly however, many companies are re-establishing the balance between risk and cost focus as they manage their global supply chain.
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But the cost-cutting focus is now expanding to deal makers and corporate advisers that have remained among Wall Street's most high-profile professionals even as their contributions to banks' bottom line has been dwarfed by traders.
Next the company converted the microbe to produce means to create ethanol fuel from plant cellulose, and following scale-up and cost problems, abandoned that dream to focus upon higher cost chemicals used in cosmetics.
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At the same time, there remains a significant focus on cost-cutting, Mr. Cudahy said.
In our analysis of cost containment, we focus on slowing the growth rate of costs.
He believes in business basics, a focus on cost reduction, so that we can price to win.
That means bankers will have to focus on cost cutting more seriously than they have in the past.
Despite our overall revenue shortfall, our ongoing focus on cost management delivered meaningful margin expansion and EPS above our guidance range.
These steps also introduce a new focus on cost management and launch structural changes that will allow us to generate long-term growth.
In public sector, he says there is broad focus on cost reductions.
First Solar continues its focus on cost reduction with the management taking several steps to further reduce costs over the years to come.
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Rather than focus on cost-cutting and bottom lines, ABC's entertainment chief is all about the content--developing and delivering it in the most traditional way possible.
To focus on cost per child ignored the wider long-term benefits.
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Naysayers argue that enterprise technology, still the bulk of overall tech spending, is a mature industry with a greater focus on cost savings than dramatic disruption.
Sanofi would be wise to walk in and offer all those employees raises, and focus any cost-cutting efforts on back office employees and those in other Genzyme businesses.
Martin likes Time Warner shares for several reasons, including a massive stock buyback, a focus on cost cutting, and Wall Street's seeming disinterest in the stock that he believes creates an attractive buying opportunity.
Each idea is referred to as a stock, and those mock securities are classified as "Savings Bonds, " which focus on cost-cutting, "Bow Jones, " which build on existing technologies, and "Spazdaq, " which describes ideas using entirely new technology.
The simplest way for the federal government to restrain Medicaid would be to end the current system of matching state spending and replace this with block grants, which would give the states an incentive to focus on cost-control.
We have just undergone a period in IT where cost pressure drove an intense focus on server consolidation and virtualization.
We tend to focus on the cost of the care and forget there are still bills coming to the mailbox.
Multinational companies are faced with managing their business with a dual focus on strict cost containment and achievement of top line growth.
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Profit was driven by increased sales growth in commercial aerospace and improved operating margins with an active focus on structural cost reduction.
These measures include cost-cutting and greater focus on international defense sales.
Focus on keeping cost of failure low and entrepreneurial adaptability high.
The Department for International Development (DfID) is successfully getting money to poor people, but needs to focus more on how cost-effectively they are delivered.
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The first stage in the cycle is that of factor-driven economies which focus on low-cost basic factor conditions, such as low-skilled labour, natural resources and geographic location.
My advice is to focus on low-cost options.
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Unlike many Boros templates, there is a surprising focus on higher casting cost endgame options, giving the deck less of an early game burst and more of the ability to burst through a locked up board.
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