At Viralheat we have scaled to crunch billions of brand mentions a day for only tens of thousands of dollars per month in hard costs.
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Now employers are trying to give staff an incentive to think hard about costs.
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We believe that considering the strong margins that Apple is able to maintain on its Mac line, it will be better able to absorb the shocks of higher hard drive costs and hence not increase the pricing.
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COSCO's new management will have to work hard to cut costs in its 600-strong fleet.
Meetings between Algroup managers and Viag's union representatives, who were to have several seats on the board, went badly, convincing the Swiss they would have a hard time cutting costs.
He worked hard to keep costs down so that Wal-Mart could keep prices low so that the average working American could get the most out of the money they earned.
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If they have a large pool of elderly patients with complex conditions, or high rates of emergency admissions - both of which are more expensive to treat - it can be hard to keep costs down.
During his four years at Toyota's helm, Toyoda has learned the hard way the costs of blindly pursuing growth, a strategy inherited from his predecessor that he ruefully acknowledges got him slammed by a cascade of recalls.
On the international level, costs are hard to estimate because no decision has been reached on how many inspections there will be.
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"Strengthening the student loan facility will ensure that families who find it hard to meet the costs will have extra help and can spread repayments over a number of years, " said Deputy Reed.
However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.
Although in decline over the last year or so notebook computer makers appear to be poised to offer thin and light weight, reasonably priced products that provide performance and power use like those of flash memory devices with the storage costs of hard disk drives.
The cost of SSDs is still higher than that of hard disks, but those costs are falling fast.
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They have found it hard to pass the extra costs on to their customers swiftly, partly because they sign contracts for bulk orders.
Community banks are particularly hard hit, as compliance costs as a share of operating expenses are two-and-a-half times greater for them than for large banks.
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Norbert Haug, the head of Mercedes Motorsport which powered Briton Lewis Hamilton to his recent title victory, also revealed his team were working hard on measures to reduce costs.
As the economy sours, Americans say they're being hit hard by gas bills and housing costs.
Under his leadership Sears focused hard on being efficient, controlling costs and managing margins.
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Rising costs will also encourage hard thinking about whether a personal and tailored touch is needed.
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Unable to devalue against their euro-zone partners, they must restore competitiveness the hard way, by lowering domestic costs.
But repairing Ford (or General Motors) is going to be very hard because of the huge legacy costs of unionized retirees.
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Yet in continental Europe, it is hard to increase profitability by cutting costs because sacking people is expensive, time-consuming and unpopular.
Having to run separate pension plans in each European country, they complain, raises costs and makes it hard to transfer employees.
It's hard for students to compare college costs, evaluate financial aid options and figure out how much debt they can afford.
Sometimes problems are related to costs that are very hard to control.
The benefits of marriage for individuals and households and the costs of discrimination are hard to capture, but "they wind up being extremely powerful, " Mr. Egan said.
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