Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
Meanwhile, privatization of government owned entities is probably not feasible in the near term, but the government likely will move steadily toward the creation of a level-playing field by removing input cost subsidies and reducing the monopoly power, allowing for newcomers in the market that can address these gaps.
Even on a level playing field, the relatively high cost of living in a prosperous America, combined with our regulatory and labor laws, will continue to limit the ability of domestic businesses to compete with those of many countries.
Top field-level seats will also cost more, allowing the teams to keep the upper tiers of their respective stadiums more reasonably priced.
Fully equipped for serious research, it unleashes the potential of low-cost innovation in a field that, until now, has been associated with high costs and long development cycles.
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That low spending coupled with on-field dominance has makes Kansas State the most cost-efficient team in college football.
It has been erected in a field, rented as part of the overall cost, near junction 50 on the northbound carriageway.
The FIA has also agreed to allow Formula One teams to equalise engine performance across the field for 2009, pending the introduction of cost-saving measures from 2010.
Everything -- tutoring, soccer and occasional field trips -- is provided at no cost, something the kids appreciate, as nearly all of them know that money is tight at home.
Also, considering the speed of evolution of mobile device features and operating systems, evolving field requirements, ongoing maintenance of multiple platforms can cost multiple times the initial development budget over a five-year period.
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Proponents of contingency-fee lawyers say they provide valuable enforcement powers the state at no cost to taxpayers, and level the playing field against well-heeled corporations.
Because geo-engineering is a new field, the researchers chose to ignore trifles such as cost or practicality, and focused instead on the sheer physical limits on what can be done and how much good the different schemes would do.
The developed equipment is easy to use, and has a lower cost, so allowed the execution of the multiple field experiments necessary to obtain good and valuable information to study the runoff generation and soil losses processes.
The defeat came at an added cost for the Knights as Tom Haberecht limped from the field.
The agreement will offer both companies opportunities to gain access to most relevant automotive markets with innovative and environmentally friendly product offering, a field in which Fiat is a recognized world leader while benefitting from additional cost synergies.
Katerva, a new nonprofit set up to recognize and support stand-out sustainability efforts around the world, has just announced the winner of an award competition it hopes will be like a Nobel prize in the broad and somewhat amorphous field of sustainability: Sanergy, a company that builds low-cost toilets in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and converts the waste into fuel and fertilizer.
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It's also cost effective: instead of two doctors (the standard in the field), each surgery is performed by one doctor with two assistants standing by.
Now, 15 years after that first sequencing breakthrough, the field is finally on the cusp of making a real impact, as the cost of sequencing human DNA has gone so low that scientists are likely to sequence hundreds or thousands of genomes over the next couple years.
Secondly, the relatively small cost will likely lower the barrier to entry for advanced microscopy and make field diagnosis an easier and more viable option in places like Africa.
It's conceivable that Congress will back down from the costly biofuel mandate, or tilt the field to favor corn, or remove the tariff that keeps out the far more cost-effective Brazilian ethanol.
Plans to get more fans in the stadium include free WiFi, plus mobile apps (those may cost) with game highlights and the ability to listen in on the sound from field level.
But the field could develop fast, as prototype picosatellites can ride along with other missions at almost no extra cost.
One of the pioneers in this field is Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which uses large datasets to investigate the cost and benefit of new drugs and existing expensive treatments.
"In that regard, the Field of Dreams project hasn't hurt us tremendously financially because we do have enough work volume to absorb that cost, " Ripple said.
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