And Mr Obama's cost-control mechanisms, imperfect though they are, have a fiscally useful role to play in bringing down the costs of government-provided insurance for the poor and the elderly.
Private corporations meanwhile seconded the government's efforts at cost-control and sought to turn the hospitals that they owned into high-tech factories.
That cost the guerrillas their lucrative control of the region's rich banana plantations.
Low-cost carriers now control more than half of Southeast Asia's airline market.
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If investors started to suspect the country's spending is truly out of control, the cost of borrowing would skyrocket, the dollar would deteriorate and the good times might not come back.
He said that fuel inflation and other factors outside of the department's control were responsible for three-quarters of the cost increase over the past year.
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And should U.S. Bancorp make a big acquisition, Davis has the cost-control skills to make it pay.
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His team figured out a way to control Stanford's network with a few low-cost switches, some software, and a single PC.
Later in the interview he said that he didn't see any cost control in the bill -- when every health economist that's evaluated the bill says that any idea that's out there to contain costs is actually contained in the bill.
One such is Gol, Latin America's first publicly traded low-cost airline, which is not allowed to sell control to foreigners.
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Denied by his late father, Alvaro Noboa finally won control of the family's banana business in Ecuador, but at a high cost.
Private-payments companies threaten to take away the government's ability to control the money supply and benefit from seigniorage, the difference between the cost to produce the money and its face value.
Its cost control had gone too far, and customers caught in the endless phone menus of Dell's support centres frequently broke down in tears.
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"Credit Suisse Group's core businesses look strong over the long term, and we intend to continue focussing on cost-control efforts and on achieving growth in our key markets, " said Credit Suisse Chief Executive Lukas Muehlemann.
"The OFT found what insurers have known for years - that when a customer has a crash that is their fault, their insurer has little control over the cost of the subsequent claim, " said Nick Starling, the ABI's director of general insurance.
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Industry experts are generally upbeat on the immediate futures of recently troubled legacy carriers like Delta, UAL 's United Airlines and AMR 's American Airlines, believing they have seen the worst and that cost-cutting initiatives have industry balance sheets under control.
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