In recent years particularly, they had become increasingly disenchanted with the flinty policies of National's leader, Jenny Shipley, who sought to make New Zealand internationally competitive whatever the domestic cost.
It added that along with a pick-up in demand for international and domestic travel, cost-cutting measures were likely to help boost profit.
Started in 2000 with only one plane, Lion Air has grown into Indonesia's largest airline mostly by sticking to low-cost domestic flights across the 17, 000-island archipelago.
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For professional women, a more immediate obstacle may be the rising cost of domestic help.
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Ms Grant said domestic abuse in Scotland cost 2.3bn per annum and the cost of her bill would be a fraction of that.
For most countries, the interest cost of domestic borrowing is greater than the return on foreign reserves, because reserve currencies tend to pay lower interest rates.
Specifically, there is concern that the priority of the Chinese would be to maximize production and drive down world prices in order to reduce the cost of domestic food production.
This marginal reasoning explains why Kuwait, which is renowned for its oil reserves, still has imports at some point, the marginal cost of domestic production is more expensive than the world price.
The fear, though, is of a further increase in inflation if prices are brought, as economists say they should be, up to the cost of domestic production, something like 20 cents a litre.
The cost of domestic violence is considerable.
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Mr Colaninno also showed his political skills, calming the passions of both trade unionists and politicians as he sliced up Olivetti, even though it meant the end of Italy's domestic computer industry and cost many jobs.
Although Boeing simply says that it is looking to open a cost effective domestic manufacturing facility (an endangered species) to employ American workers, the NLRB alleges that the company was punishing union workers in Washington for past strikes.
SEZs to sell some goods on the domestic market by raising the cost to them of doing so.
Far better, anyway, than cost-intensive domestic banking in Germany, which the bank has spent a year trying to marry with other distribution channels.
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An even lower-cost group of domestic producers are the mini-mill operators, such as Nucor, which make steel from scrap metal instead of iron ore.
The company has little trouble getting low-cost loans from domestic banks.
This is largely presented as a tactic to stimulate the domestic economy by lowering the cost of finance and putting more money into the banking system.
The reform could increase the cost of having a domestic worker by nearly 20%.
Estimates say the cost of having a domestic worker could rise by between 18% and 40%, depending on their working arrangements.
Raw material costs have also risen from overseas and domestic sources, adding to labor cost pressures on the bottom line, survey respondents said.
Nixon's policy failed miserably, and he resorted to enhancing domestic supply at a terrifying environmental cost and by turning to reliable low-cost foreign suppliers.
As well as lowering the cost of inputs for domestic firms, trade increases the variety of products and may also boost productivity both tricky to quantify.
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Passenger yield (Passenger Revenue per Revenue Passenger Mile) for American has decreased slightly in recent years due to competition from low-cost airlines and poor domestic economic conditions.
Domestic Passenger yield (passenger revenue per revenue passenger mile) for UAL has decreased slightly in recent years due to competition from low-cost airlines and poor domestic economic conditions.
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It has unveiled a low-cost retail package for domestic customers.
That has kept them looking for cost savings, and domestic mergers remain the most inviting option, especially now that Latin America, source of 30% of Santander's profits, is in trouble.
According to SSE, it agrees with the aim, but is "no longer confident that domestic energy customers are funding a cost-effective scheme and believes action must now be taken to review this".
The other big domestic concern for voters is the rising cost and lack of healthcare coverage.
Much of that can be blamed on domestic demand for imported goods and higher cost of raw materials, like iron ore.
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