So they teamed with a nonprofit organization called the Motor City Blight Busters, which provides a low-cost work force that renovates the homes for Urban Detroit Wholesalers to sell.
The reason is that reducing the cost of work or information has leveraged impact through the entire economy.
Energy cost reduction has the greatest impact on reducing the cost of work.
Even if the cost cuts work and Big Oil finally agrees to support the group, environmentalists are squarely against the drilling aspect of the plan.
Barro believes that the Obama administration does not understand the importance of individual incentives and that its policies have served to raise the cost of work.
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Over the last few years I have read a lot of economic and monetary history and assert that ALL periods of rapid economic expansion are driven by two fundamental processes: Reducing the cost of doing work and reducing the cost of information.
Economic theory says that in a competitive market, the cost of a pizza, like the cost of a copyrighted work, will fall to its marginal cost.
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The council is suing for the cost of the work, lost income and legal expenses.
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Making sure that the benefits exceed the cost will take work, to be sure.
It is lack of knowledge and skills that is the main problem, rather than the cost of the work.
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Aside from the costs associated with upgrading old equipment, another year-2000 financial burden strapping small companies is the cost of overtime work for employees.
Also joining this band of worthwhile purchases are newcomers such as digital radios and shredders, where the cost and usage work out to the advantage of the buyer.
In light of that, the authority's policy and resources committee agreed to initiate court proceedings against Kier to recover the cost of the work and all other "reasonable costs and losses".
Axiom is now fielding teams of consultants who help big corporate legal departments figure out how to do their work more cost-effectively, Henderson said, and not incidentally steering more work back to Axiom.
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It now hopes bankruptcy reorganization will allow the same kind of cost cutting and work-rule changes that have boosted operations at other airlines, said Jon Snook, American's vice president of operations planning and performance.
According to the prosecutors, the money was used by Nastase to buy objects and goods from China and to cover the cost of some work done at two of his houses, in Bucharest and Cornu.
The total amount of the award has yet to be calculated, but the government will pay up to half the project cost and will work with the companies to get the new reactors licensed and operating within 10 years, the Energy Department said.
They have confidence in their ability to work the supply chain and work down cost curves.
The Scottish government will fund 80% of the cost of the building work.
The council said the restoration work will cost "millions of pounds", and involves rewiring, replacement of existing heating systems and weatherproofing works.
The project (Bell Labs declines to disclose its cost) combined the work of physicists, app developers, signal processing experts and video engineers.
The agency said the work would cost "significantly lower" than widening the motorway and have "less impact on the environment during construction".
The device's robust functionality, which includes Internet access and a customizable app interface, also makes it the ultimate low-cost alternative to a work laptop.
Tell him your cost of credit and work through the example.
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Dorset County Council approached the Department for Transport for a special grant towards the cost of the repair work but this has been turned down.
Nonunionized carriers like CNF (nyse: CNF - news - people ) are picking off business with a lower-cost and more flexible work force.
The lack of virtual work could cost talented, engaged associates.
This shift would likely lead to a decline in gross profits for agencies, or for profits to even be eliminated altogether if agencies are asked to work at cost.
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Frank also cites an American Bar Association ethics ruling suggesting law firms should only bill clients their actual cost plus a reasonable allocation of overhead, including the cost of outsourced legal work.
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