Cost cutting and strong sales helped to boost gross margin by 190 basis points to 43%.
Given past cutting measures, maintaining strong earnings growth could prove difficult for those companies unable to find a way to increase sales.
Because the strong cost cutting undertaken by corporate America , Asia and Europe we also see record net income gains that have driven a rally of over 90% in the MSCI All-Country World Index of 45 nations.
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For every sapling GPFA delivers to a farmer, she (or he) must pay the organization back with a cutting once the tree is strong and healthy enough to produce cuttings.
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He cut costs and simplified the Carpigiani's structure by cutting its 1, 000-strong workforce by half.
By the way, professors immersed in a strong research program often teach cutting edge knowledge and skills, but not to remedial, whining, entitled students.
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The EU decided to play an active leadership role, looking to drive more ambition in cutting emissions - and it did, staying strong and relatively united throughout.
Raising NCR's productivity to at least IBM's standards would mean either cutting about half of its 35, 000-strong work force or increasing sales by 40%.
This is a strong endorsement of user-inspired research and cutting-edge speech and language technology in I2R and BIRC.
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Canada succeeded in cutting rates and broadening its corporate tax base thanks to a strong political consensus that formed behind the issue.
Corporate profits are strong, but they have been coming primarily from cost cutting.
The dollar made one of its biggest jumps of the year against the euro on September 4th, as investors fretted that strong American manufacturing figures would stop the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates again.
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Two more likely options are for the company to leverage its incredibly strong balance sheet, returning more cash to shareholders, or cutting expenses.
There is a strong case to be made that for certain goods and services, cutting out the middle man and providing direct public support is the most efficient, least likely to be captured, method we have available.
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The world's largest drug firm's new chief executive, JeffreyKindlerJeffrey Kindler, has said he wants to "transform" the company and took the unprecedented step of cutting some 2, 000 jobs from the drug giant's 10, 000-strong U.S. sales force.
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Volkswagen, a much larger company that can lean on its higher-margin luxury brands and strong global operations, has been able to weather the storm more easily by cutting prices and taking market share from weaker rivals like Fiat, Peugeot, Ford Motor and General Motors.
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Yorkshire Electricity says it is cutting 350 jobs over the next year - almost 10% of its 4, 500-strong workforce.
Gore's speech Tuesday was aimed at cutting Republican criticism off at the knees, while exploiting one of the vice president's strong policy points -- his stance on environmental preservation.
India has developed a strong a Space program over 50 years, mostly by indigenous efforts (necessary, because cutting edge technology, was long denied to it by the developed countries, especially the US).
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