Improve operational efficiencies, expense control and service through investments in technology and more productive use of existing resources and lower-cost operations centers.

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Currently, I see profit margins almost 20 percent above their normalized level, elevated by tight expense control and minimal incremental wage expense.

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Never mind the additional expense to manufacture a battery and its control systems.

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She argues for federal support for child care and after-school care, and control over flex-time for employees whose long hours usually come at the expense, emotionally and financially, of their families.

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And the only direction they will have to go, the only true expense they can control, will be to reduce their labor costs.

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Fourth quarter 2011 operating expenses, excluding the cost of equipment sales, remained consistent sequentially and year-on-year as cost savings programs in 2011 helped control expense growth.

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In the most recent quarter, for instance, total revenue rose just 3.4%, but due to operating expense control operating income rose 4.0%, net income rose 9% and net income per basic share rose 11.3%.

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At worst, however, it could behave as a bureaucratic parasite, propping up weaker operators at the expense of stronger ones, and restricting capital-raising by stronger subsidiaries in order to maintain its own equity control.

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The standards have faced criticism from conservatives who fear federal control of schools and from some educators who oppose the standards' emphasis on nonfiction texts at the expense of fiction.

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