Hurricane Sandy, coupled with litigation charges and even costs, pushed operating margins down 50 basis points to 20.85, the company said.
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Diesels can save you hundreds of dollars each year in fuel costs, even though diesel typically costs more than regular gasoline.
Gross margins that is: and presumably even higher costs as a result of the method they were using to collect the material.
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Some schools don't even mention costs in their financial-aid award letters, while other schools cite only tuition and fees, ignoring transportation, textbooks and living expenses.
Those penalties and fines, together with interest, can really add up and in some cases, can move to collections and court, resulting in even bigger costs.
It is also possible for an investor to choose a set of active managers that, collectively, provides a total return better than that of a passive alternative, even after costs.
The most obvious benefit is lower labour costs: even when factoring in costs such as transport for employees, a maquiladora owner still pays less than he would for American labour.
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The engineer says even small costs got targeted: BP no longer provided food at lunch meetings, and eliminated the fruit bowls that were offered as part of a healthy-living drive a few years earlier.
The Obama administration foresees even higher costs.
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But even comparing costs can get complicated: A commission-free ETF may cost more, over time, than a similar fund that requires paying a commission but has a lower expense ratio, notes Joel Dickson, senior investment strategist at Vanguard Group.
Symphony orchestras in other big cities are feeling similar constraints, as the economic downturn hurt many endowments and donations even as costs kept rising, said Robert Flanagan, a Stanford University economist who has written a book about symphony finances.
Halliburton reported a strong quarter to beat analyst estimates with earnings of 53 cents per share, and even though costs associated with the BP Gulf oil spill could have an impact in the future the oil and gas services firm saw its shares up 3.5%.
Thus, using a Steve Jobs phrase, without some sort of support, even an insanely great new energy technology cannot be sold if it costs even a small amount more then fossil fuel generated energy.
But they go further: what is happening is not just an attempt to meet road costs, or even to balance the rival costs of road and rail, but an overt experiment in putting a money price on the environment.
And it will have to be even more aggressive in cutting costs, which may mean even bigger job losses at the group, on top of the 30, 000 odd already announced or made.
And that's something that I strongly believe we have to resist, even if it has some costs to it, and even if it's not always the most politically popular thing to do.
Participants frown upon late arrivals, and some data-obsessed engineers have even computed the costs of tardiness.
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Bierman noted that even if hanger costs continue to climb, owners have choices in their responses.
If real estate were factored into the survey, it would have amplified costs even more.
Solar energy gets cheaper by the year - let's drive down costs even further.
By contrast, Tower Hamlets pays the entirety of care costs even for people with such savings.
Germany enjoys historically low borrowing costs even as higher bond yields push the periphery towards insolvency.
The company had settled into a complacent groove even as its costs were spiraling out of control.
Moreover, so long as productivity is rising, firms can cut unit labour costs even without pay cuts.
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But training with real equipment invites accidents and generally costs even more, so defence ministries are keen on simulators.
And that's not even considering further costs arising from lawsuits and malpractice insurance.
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