If the balance between improvement and cost turns negative for more than a short period, Iraqi resilience will be affected.
Against a background rate of an average inflation rate of two percent for the euro area as a whole, a fast pace of improvement in cost competitiveness for debt-stressed countries would require significant wage cuts.
However, the company believes that it can achieve cost improvement as the year progresses.
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There was some margin improvement due to cost cutting, but details were frustratingly absent.
We are also concerned that the company may struggle to maintain high manufacturing utilization, which could put pressure on the rate of cost improvement.
This huge cost improvement helped SanDisk achieve a double-digit gross margin improvement across its product segments which include mobile, digital imaging, and USB sticks among others.
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In the chart above we forecast the high gross margin for mobile flash memory cards will continue into the future, as the cost improvement achieved is based on technological developments by SanDisk.
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Each Beacon Community has elected specific and measurable improvement goals in each of three vital areas for health systems improvement: quality, cost-efficiency, and population health.
Thomas Cook said plans to stabilise the business in the UK were now complete, with the closure of 149 shops contributing to significant cost savings and an improvement in profit margins.
Built from HP's industry-leading server intellectual property (IP) and 10 years of extensive research from HP Labs, the company's central research arm, HP Moonshot delivers a significant improvement in energy, space, cost and simplicity.
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The more the hospital exceeds its cost-reduction and quality-improvement targets, the more money it can keep.
Capital One also reported a 13 basis point improvement in its net interest margin largely due to lower cost of funds in the quarter.
For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.
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To make the debate on NHS reform comprehensible, and the claims testable against evidence, what we need is some form of baseline scenario that explains the level of productivity improvement needed to keep health costs below double their present cost.
Process improvement and increasing efficient productivity should never be done at the cost of cutting corners.
On the cost side, there is still plenty of room for improvement.
Low-cost line sharing should encourage more aggressive DSL deployment because it is a dramatic improvement in the business case for DSL CLECs, says Strategis Group, a networking analysis firm in Washington, D.
But for those who can't, and who have been diagnosed with the medical condition of infertility, then improvement in IVF success rates over the last decade mean that we are now able to offer cost-effective treatment with a single IVF cycle.
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In this world, a quality improvement is identified, then forcibly rolled out to every doctors office and hospital in the country, regardless of the cost.
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The year over year improvement is primarily due to lower retail selling expenses associated with our no-contract offering as well as a lower cost structure resulting from our cost cutting initiatives in 2011.
They also saw a slight improvement at companies accused of accounting fraud, which they said might be attributed to a well-documented pattern of cost-cutting and asset sales at once-highflying companies that played with the books to keep their abnormal growth rates going.
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