Otherwise, margin increase would come from offering an equivalent level of service at a better production-to-retail cost differential.
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Senior officials shall be designated by and report to the Deputy Secretary or official at the equivalent level of their respective offices, departments, and agencies.
The House passed the measure on a bipartisan basis as majority Republicans back away from their previous demand that any increase in the government's borrowing cap be paired with an equivalent level of spending cuts.
Credit Suisse Securities is planning over the next two years to increase Japanese equity analyst staffing by over 40 percent, to a level equivalent to that before the 2008 crisis.
In order to answer all the questions in a very fluid and dynamic manner, somehow at some point you have to get your analytical inspection down to the equivalent of code level.
Our tester W8 wagon had a mere 9, 181 miles on the odometer when it arrived, but it clearly had warped front brake rotors, a rattle in the automatic transmission lever from overzealous shifting in the manual mode, and bushings that had already been flogged at a level equivalent to what 100, 000 miles of driving by any ordinary owner might do.
Advanced university degree (preferably at doctoral level or equivalent) in the field of marine sciences, oceanography or meteorology.
At the moment, universities can recruit an unlimited number of students who have achieved A-level grades equivalent to ABB or higher, but the number of lower achieving students they can take is capped to limit the cost to the state in the form of student loans.
At present, more than 70% of the working population have reached GCSE level or the equivalent.
"Grades at GCSE, A-Level or their equivalent are always hugely important, but they're never the sole criterion, " she said.
But the Federal Reserve's bringing inflation down to a near-nonexistent level was the equivalent of a tax cut, overwhelming the damage done by those tax increases.
In fact, the minimum reading skill level required of new factory workers has risen from the 10th grade reading level to the equivalent of two years of college or more.
The idea was that countries whose emissions fall under the emissions cap -- the permitted level of CO2 equivalent emissions per year -- could then sell those carbon credits to countries who are not able to meet their own caps.
The standard required for acceptance onto a course might be one A-level or a vocational equivalent.
It would be capable of not just negotiating its environment but also intelligently manipulating objects--a level of functioning almost equivalent to a human servant.
He said he hoped common sense would now prevail so that students could come into the UK to study English with a lower level in the language, equivalent to having studied it for 150 to 200 hours.
And they should possess an England and Wales Cricket Board Level III coach qualification, or equivalent from another country.
If you have not drilled down your contributions to such a monetary equivalent then you have at least one more level to drill down before you are ready for the review.
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In many instances, research at the community level cannot even be delegated to the equivalent of laboratory assistants since observation in one locale must be compared to observation in another so the same person has to be on site in both places.
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The equivalent figure for EMBAs, aimed mainly at higher-level executives with more experience in business, was 60 percent, down from 63 percent in 2007.
But if the propensity to addiction is also genetically controlled in humans, it could provide a mechanism to address the problem at the cellular level, by regulating tyramine or its vertebrate equivalent.
In 2009, the U.S. economy emitted 6, 576 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e), nearly 6% below the level of emissions for 2008, according to Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2009.
That will likely increase prices again, causing Brazilians and industry watchdogs to wonder when an entry level vehicle there will no longer cost the equivalent of a small house in a low income state like Pernambuco.
The EU demand for energy is expected to rise by about the same level to 1.9 billion tons of oil equivalent energy.
If Walmart is able to replicate their efforts on a national level, an 80 percent reduction in waste would be the equivalent of preventing 11.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
Sharp was the first brand to showcase this groundbreaking technology at CES 2012. 8K is an astounding 7680 x 4320 resolution, the equivalent of 16 times the pixel resolution of HDTV and presents an unprecedented level of incredibly detailed, high-quality images.
This individual doctor has galvanised the regional hospital to such an extent that last year they had the equivalent of 74 donors per million population, double the already high Spanish national level.
The average book value of the life firms' shares is now equivalent to 14, 900 on the Nikkei 225 stockmarket average, compared with the Nikkei's actual level of around 20, 600.
One recent study, by an American academic, Shang-Jin Wei, calculated that an increase in the level of corruption from that of Singapore to that of, say, Mexico would be the equivalent of increasing the tax burden on foreign investors by over 20%.
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