Mr House said the first priority in closing the budget gap would be to look at non-staff costs first, and then they would consider voluntary redundancy.
For instance, Massachusetts is trying to achieve universal coverage first before tackling costs.
First, most costs (other than the purchase price of items and repair materials) become miscellaneous itemized deductions, usable only to the extent they exceed 2% of his adjusted gross income.
First, Medicare costs are going through the roof both because the number of beneficiaries will more than double by 2080, but more importantly because the cost per beneficiary will more than quintuple!
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Meanwhile, the company lowered its full-year earnings guidance range by 25 cents per share, citing significant legal costs incurred in the first quarter as well as anticipated future legal costs, including those in connection with a proxy contest.
And if we do try to combine both public and private insurance, should the federal government cover, say, the first year or two of care or should it provide only catastrophic benefits (say, all costs after that first year).
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So far, however, none has found that the Internet has delivered what it first promised: lower costs.
Even in Japan, where it is admittedly a leader, it is not the first to try cutting costs.
One ounce of gold now buys 5.1 times as much Dow index has it did in mid-2000, ignoring transaction costs (first into cash and then into stocks).
Waste-to-energy and landfill-gas projects are likely to benefit most from green pricing, at least at first, because their costs are already close to those of conventional power producers.
The benchmark lending rate was reduced by 0.25 percentage point late Thursday to 6.31% and the benchmark deposit rate to 3.25%, the first cut in borrowing costs since December 2008.
WhatsApp costs 99 cents on the Apple Inc. app store, and it is free on Google Android devices for the first year but then costs 99 cents a year after that.
In the event Carol sells the residence within three (3) years from the date of entry of this Decree, she agrees to split any equity received from said sale after the payment of the remaining balance on the first mortgage and any costs associated with the sale of the property equally between her and Joe.
He disagreed that this was good for competition in the books markets and said that the "economics of the e-book industry is quite different to the print industry" because costs are the same up until first copy but after that e-books incur none of costs of printing and distribution.
For the first half of 2008 those costs were up 40% from 12 months before.
Gagosian also pledged to pay his production costs for the first five years after joining up.
The first exhibit details the actual costs of building an iPhone assembled in China.
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Installation and associated costs for the first and second methods will be the responsibility of the franchisee.
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The trouble with this is, first, that the supposed costs are pretty moot: what are they, precisely?
He says that tree cover is a good first step to keeping cooling costs down in the South.
If they insist, I make sure to get a retainer that will cover costs for the first month.
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Samuelsson said his first priority will be cutting costs and restoring profits, and then stepping up growth in China.
Last month the Usana announced a 35.9% drop in first quarter earnings on higher costs and lagging North American sales.
Even if food companies face higher costs, their first reaction is almost never to increase the retail price of their goods.
He likes quick decisions: SAP was one of the first big firms to freeze costs after the financial turmoil in September.
The deal is expected to be accretive to free cash flow ex integration costs in the first full year following the close.
The maker of HIV drugs reported a 63 percent surge in income in the first quarter thanks to lower costs and increased sales.
Toan, 52, first learned about managing prescription costs in the early 1980s, when he was the director of the Missouri Department of Social Services.
Another example is counting 10 years of ObamaCare revenue against 7 years of operational costs during its first decade in order to improve the numbers.
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