While driving cost leadership as a discipline, we were also taking profits and cash and plowing it back in the company, all in the name of growth for the clients.
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Driving cost reductions must be the explicit purpose and primary design of deployment policies and achieving consistent reductions in the unsubsidized cost of clean energy technologies must be the metric that rationalizes deployment investments.
"TV manufacturers strongly believe in 3D and are driving its cost downward, but its value to consumers relies strongly on the availability of quality material to watch, " Gray concluded.
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As Fallows pointed out ages ago, the military hangs all sorts of gadgets and capabilities on new programs, driving up cost and complexity, delaying completion and increasing the maintenance costs.
From the beginning the challenge was coming up with an inexpensive catalyst that could be reused in the reactor, driving the cost of the process below the market price of gas.
These kinds of efficiencies are driving down the cost of solar thermal, said Woolard.
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The critical shortage of technically skilled people has been driving up the cost of projects and resources.
Proponents say driving up the cost of coal generation will push utilities to seek out cleaner alternatives.
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And the tax means that medical devices will be more expensive, driving up health cost even further.
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Each has succeeded at driving down the cost of measurement and making it fun by creating communities of self-trackers.
Salary restraints prevent free-spending owners from driving up the cost of talent.
Meanwhile, the defect keeps showing up in other vehicles, driving up the cost of GM's warranty claims and potentially putting drivers at risk.
Unfortunately the unintended-but-foreseeable consequences of this modest proposal included driving up the cost of debt for the very nations that it meant to (potentially) save.
In particular, the tax was heavily criticized from the medical industry for potentially driving up the cost of health care and possibly sending even more jobs overseas.
"This is something which affects everyone's budgets and is driving up the cost of everything because everything in this country is shifted around by lorry, " he said.
Yet now both states are considering making it harder for consumers to get the products and services they need, and driving up the cost of health insurance to boot.
Once again, if the price of one product falls, we can then concentrate our demand elsewhere for what was formerly out of reach, thus driving up the cost of those goods.
It found that 2003 was a good year for consumers, with competition driving down the cost of a high-speed net connection over the phone line via ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
But much of the cynicism is centered on corn-based ethanol that some consider not just an inefficient fuel source but also one that also creates food shortages, driving up the cost of feed for livestock producers.
Basically, the companies are increasing supply which is driving down the cost of vaccines and we are increasing demand for the vaccines by aggregating demand and helping developing countries pay for them at a lower, sustainable price.
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"Failure to provide facilities for the new container ships would mean the world's most efficient ships could not dock in the UK, driving up the cost of imports and making UK exports less competitive, " said David Gledhill, chief executive of Hutchison Ports UK, which owns the port.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has funded breakthrough innovation and new growth industries that are driving down the cost of clean energy and building the foundation for competitive 21st century U.S. industries, according to a new White House report released today on the impacts of the U.S. stimulus bill.
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But AAA's annual Your Driving Costs study, published in early April, figures that the average cost of driving a new passenger car is 56.2 cents, up 4.5 cents over the 2003 calculation of 51.7 cents.
The cost of driving could soon be beyond the reach of 19-year-old Hazel Bond.
Among voters' worries, the cost of driving easily eclipsed the war in Iraq, unemployment, health care or terrorism.
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"The high cost of driving and an ageing population is also making local shopping much more attractive, " Ms Hinton said.
That makes gassing up just 29% of the total cost of driving.
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