Operating margins improved in the third quarter thanks to expense control measures in the company's stores.
Such expense control will help the company offset the impact of rising programming costs.
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Improve operational efficiencies, expense control and service through investments in technology and more productive use of existing resources and lower-cost operations centers.
Currently, I see profit margins almost 20 percent above their normalized level, elevated by tight expense control and minimal incremental wage expense.
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%.
And the only direction they will have to go, the only true expense they can control, will be to reduce their labor costs.
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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How do you control costs in collegiate athletics when the business is basically a government entity with expense obligations it cannot control?
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No expense is harder to control than labor, typically accounting for 25% to 35% of costs in such mine construction and most of the overruns.
But not, it seems, at the expense of losing management control.
Never mind the additional expense to manufacture a battery and its control systems.
In-house agencies give the client more control, but at the expense of not being able to attract the best talent.
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No one is more disappointed than tournament officials, who spared no expense trying to fix a problem that was out of their control.
"Mr. Holder is supportive of old ideas for gun control that have never made people safer at the expense of taking away their rights, " Bunning said.
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.
In Switzerland, thanks to mergers, the top five now control 57% of the market, compared with 41% in 1990, but their expense ratios, too, have risen to 25% from 20%.
But with the calls for excluding even large depositors from bail-ins, it also underscores how governments aren't quite ready to hand off control over how to protect their voters' savings, even if it comes at the expense of these voters' taxes.
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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.
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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