These will result partly from cutting force structure such as Army brigades, but also from decisions by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to reduce the number of military personnel performing so-called commercial functions.

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Interface built the carpet industry's most oil-independent cost structure while cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 82%.

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He cut costs and simplified the Carpigiani's structure by cutting its 1, 000-strong workforce by half.

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The year over year improvement is primarily due to lower retail selling expenses associated with our no-contract offering as well as a lower cost structure resulting from our cost cutting initiatives in 2011.

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Since the days of Branch Rickey, the Dodgers have prided themselves in creating an environment that provided structure, discipline and allowed for the creation of cutting edge philosophies that have helped revolutionize the business of baseball.

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Instead, in his prepared remarks, Kindler seems to be emphasizing the drugmaker's ability to wrench big efficiencies out of its enormous structure--a strategy not that different from the cost-cutting going on at rival Merck.

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However fast companies are cutting capacity that once served Americans' debt-fuelled consumption, Japan's whole economic structure is geared towards meeting external demand.

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Late last week, the Brisbane-based company was reportedly considering cutting the price of its IPO by up to 30% amid weakening equity markets and criticism over its corporate structure, but Resourcehouse denied those claims.

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