BRC's director-general, says that costs are rising, too, thanks to inflation-busting increases in the minimum wage, intense competition for store sites and the same high fuel bills that have been troubling the shoppers.
The final report has taken three months to complete and Steven Lowthorpe, the company's taxation director, says there will be other costs as well as those for setting the scheme up.
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In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, the fiscally conservative Democrats cited recent testimony by Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf that indicated health care costs under the House legislation could rise after 10 years.
Scottish Property Federation director David Melhuish said increasing empty property rates costs was "a major blow" to businesses and investors.
But managing director Ian Ayre said this was due to costs associated with restructuring the squad that should help the club in the long term.
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Brian Brewster, director of finance at EMAS, said rising fuel costs were a real challenge for the service.
Because of the sweet deal Paramount gives director Michael Bay on the Transformer movies (he is a profit participant once Paramount earns back its production and advertising costs), the studio stands to earn considerably less on the film than it would have with another director.
Mark Van Den Berg, managing director at VantagePoint, says Bridgelux has been able to reduce costs ten-fold and improve performance (on a lumens per watt basis) at least three-fold since 2006.
Frank Torres, director general of Nissan Motor Iberica, told CNN lowering labor costs were an achievement for Nissan Barcelona and for Spain itself -- making it an increasingly competitive location for manufacturing and exporting cars.
This is precisely why many liberals like former White House budget director Peter Orszag support government-run health care to control costs: Technocrats in government can then decide who gets Avastin for cancer, say, and who doesn't.
Edward Murphy, a research director at the American Petroleum Institute, points out that it costs foreign refiners no more than 4 cents a gallon to ship gasoline to the U.S. That means increased imports from Europe, which has seen declining demand for gasoline as motorists opt for diesel.
Managing director Tony Nicholls said the company could no longer "absorb rising costs".
Toan, 52, first learned about managing prescription costs in the early 1980s, when he was the director of the Missouri Department of Social Services.
As Mark Hudson, Kable's managing director, explains, it is unclear if everybody is counting the same costs, since the Home Office has not released detailed accounts.
"The thing is that most of these places come unfinished and unfurnished, so you have to factor those costs in too, " said Brett Miller, the managing director of Rangoon-based commercial-property agent Scopio Services.
"We are concerned that children and their parents could be subject to unfair pressure to purchase when they are playing games they thought were free, but which can actually run up substantial costs, " said Cavendish Elithorn, the OFT's senior director for goods and consumer.
"The costs per thousand are out of whack, " said George Janson, director of print for GroupM, a subsidiary of advertising agency giant WPP, whose clients include Ikea, Mars Inc.
"We've been trying to work with the EPA...to get to a place where the rules are a bit more mindful of the costs, " says Roxanne Brown, the union's assistant legislative director.
The group finance director of Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings says the pulp maker is always seeking to cut costs and improve efficiency.
But Dr Bob Masterton, deputy medical director of the Lothian University NHS Trust, said the sprinkler decision was not tied to costs and stressed that all the proper regulations had been met.
"The situation has gotten enormously worse because health-care costs have risen considerably faster than wages, " says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, which has been a proponent of the health-care overhaul.
Factoring in the long life of the bulbs, the hotel made the upfront costs of switching to LEDs work, said Harry Hobbs, the hotel's director of engineering.
Dr. Wayne Burton , Bank One's medical director, explains that obese employees, unlike smokers, are not required to cover their health care costs because the company doesn't want to be seen as discriminating against obese employees, or to create the impression that it considers obesity a purely behavioral issue.
The council's new pricing structure was described as "grossly unfair" by one Camborne funeral director who said in a low income county like Cornwall, some families were struggling to afford the existing costs.
In one example, the Finance Ministry and Chinese refiners are deadlocked in negotiations over subsidies to help offset the higher costs of upgrading and operating refineries that produce cleaner diesel fuel, according to Gong Huiming, transportation director at the Energy Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on U.S.-China energy issues.
Wynn Pritchard, director of training body Construction Skills Wales, said there needed to be a balance between building sustainable homes and the costs for house builders.
Chris Nutting, director of personal insolvency at accountants KPMG, said he expected the figures to lead to tighter lending conditions and higher costs for new credit as creditors counted their losses.
"Our primary concerns are that injured parties receive care and compensation as quickly as possible, and that all motorists benefit from a reduction in the excessive costs that have built up in claims over the past few years, " said Dominic Clayden, claims director at Aviva.
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