After all, merchants have to run up costs to serve voucher-bearing customers while they wait to get paid.
Mr Lucas helps cut costs to serve the cordon bleu menus by looking at what ingredients are on offer at local markets.
Several top Democrats, including Pelosi, have questioned whether it is possible to contain spiraling medical costs without creating a public option to serve as a check on private insurers.
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The ABS explanation: It incurs extra costs because it has to serve a range of denominations, including Roman Catholics, Protestants and Lutherans, while other Bible charities stick to one flavor.
There are so many issues on the table here that I think we don't hear enough about what the human costs are to people who serve and to the families who are also left to pick up the pieces.
Efforts to force uneconomic, non-competitive fuel sources on consumers only serve to increase costs and reduce efficiencies in the energy sector.
As a member of that select committee--and some of you may have read that I suggested that if they decided that they wanted to talk about defense costs that they would have to have somebody else serve on the committee, that I wasn't there to serve on the committee to cut defense further.
Private insurers will compete to find ways to reduce costs for seniors, and innovate with different benefits to better serve and attract customers.
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If, instead, they make goods for which people are unwilling to pay a price above costs, they reap losses, which serve as a great incentive not to squander scarce resources.
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We may be able to serve families to lower costs and improve care every more.
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As transport costs and trade barriers fall, it becomes easier to serve foreign markets by exporting, rather than establishing factories and research centres around the world.
The analyst meeting was held at a modest hotel to reassure investors that an eye was being kept to the costs of the endeavor, a far cry from the lavish and delicious buffets the company used to serve up at their annual gathering at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
This form of competition does nothing to serve the general interest in holding down costs, inefficiency and waste in the delivery of medical care.
Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn says the work rule and hiring flexibility of the auto maker's recent Spanish labor contract can serve as a road map for its efforts to cut costs in France.
But that obsession to serve has now been replaced with an obsession to cut costs and keep prices low, which was just one of the methods Walton used to bring his cause to life.
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And might also serve to inform investors in Royal Dutch Shell what the full costs may be of continuing to pursue its snafu-prone Alaskan drilling campaign.
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If things are going to change, there needs to be a countervailing constituency for what works, one that demands public money is spent on programs that deliver better results for lower costs, delivered by nonprofits with demonstrated ability to improve the lives of the people they serve, and funded at levels that enable them to increase their impact over time.
While I believe reduced costs will increase the provision of services like taxis and car-shares, these will serve more to increase travel than reflect a shift in travel modes.
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