Compounding the troubles, the high cost of credit stunted business.
Until recently, the cost to store, access and analyze big data was so high that only government and a few business models could justify the cost.
But if he delivers numbers like that, it would be a feat unprecedented in the high-capital-cost, highly regulated business-aircraft industry.
He went into money-broking, a high-pressure business where a few seconds can cost hundreds of thousands, and whose operators are not famously a bunch of country choirboys.
Denied by his late father, Alvaro Noboa finally won control of the family's banana business in Ecuador, but at a high cost.
Unless we do something about the back office, we will eventually have a severe shortage of doctors because the cost of doing business is unacceptably high.
First, solar module prices have plummeted, driving a whopping 70% increase in installations in 2012 even as some high-cost manufacturers have been driven out of business.
Instead what they do is prevent most bids for acquiring a business by making the cost of an acquisition artificially high.
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The fat tax was instead fried by Danish farmers complaining of the high administrative cost of fat-tax compliance, and losing business to foreign competitors who were running away with the bacon and the kringles.
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Third, the manufacturers designed products around home-grown technical standards and special features that are not used elsewhere. (Most foreign visitors to Japan grumble upon discovering that their phones are incompatible with the country's wireless networks.) So the Japanese makers can only build phones tailored to the overseas market at a high cost and lower margins, making it an unattractive business to enter.
In the case of Delphi, GM spun off its parts business but made the new company take the old, high cost union contracts--a recipe for disaster.
Cardiff Met has fought to maintain its independence, claiming the merger plan was high cost and high risk, and not backed by a proper business case.
It is committed to providing high-performance, scalable and cost-effective solutions to a variety of business models through its state-of-the-art streaming technology.
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To the dismay of his high-minded rivals, Mr Desmond has invented a new low-cost business model for the, er, bottom end of the tabloid market.
We approach this like any other business, we generate high volume and critical mass so we can reduce the cost to the clients and they can get the basic health services that they need.
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Major Wall Street money managers and affiliates of the money managers acting as independent fiduciaries have parceled out pension portfolios to high cost, poor performing firms with whom they have longstanding, undisclosed business arrangements.
Delta has been consistent in taking initiatives to adjust to the weaker macroeconomic outlook including the new high fuel environment by aligning revenue, capacity and cost structure to build a sustainable business model.
Inside sales has been the high-growth area of sales and lead generation since the market crash of 2008 when companies scaled back travel and high cost positions in favor of a new generation of sales people, a high velocity business model, and leveraged affordable technology that companies rent instead of buy.
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Now Intel is combining its cost advantage over AMD and embrace of cooler chips to take back the high-end server business.
RFP-EZ aims to develop an online marketplace that will make it easier for the government to do business with small high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses.
Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses.
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