Other advances grow out of massive improvements in cost, quality and ease of use.
The 28% increase in cost per train kilometer was easily offset by the 78% increase in revenues.
And those interventions can add up to millions in cost avoidance and returned productivity.
It is the most ambitious, expensive (in cost per mile) urban highway project ever.
Well we have no increase in cost on any of our contracts as I stated earlier.
Online learning creates inherent advantages in cost to the institution and flexibility for the student.
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Fresh fruit and vegetables rose in cost by 18.6% while meat prices added 5%.
Where they differ, apart from in cost, is in the way the software is updated.
This also results in cost-shifting tens of billions of dollars a year over to private payers.
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It is difficult to justify the billions in cost without knowing exactly what happened.
"I would entertain another 2x to 3x drop in cost down the road, " says Van Den Berg.
And the idea that medical education is responsible for the difference in cost-efficiency is implausible at best.
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You may be elderly and your heirs will get a step-up in cost basis at your death.
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The Answer would have been a re-spec option for gold that increases in cost in some way.
More recently, exchange traded funds have emerged to challenge index funds with some advantages, particularly in cost.
Microprocessors, however, double their performance every 12 to 18 months and drop in cost by 30% a year.
Thus consumer storage growth will be a driver in cost effective digital storage provided by hard disk drives.
For example, retirees who were expecting a 3.5% increase in cost-of-living adjustments this year will receive no increase.
We now have an ideal opportunity to invest in cost-effective prevention and intervention programmes with proven track records.
More expensive in cost compared to revenue raised is consumption taxation: excise taxes, a VAT, a sales tax.
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Perhaps marketers realize that more and more consumers are mostly interested in cost and are forgoing brand loyalty?
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Sequencing technology is decreasing in cost and increasing in power at a rate faster than anything since the microchip.
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This all-in cost includes mutual fund expense ratios, trading costs and adviser fee.
So it ends up being a roughly 30 percent blended reduction in cost to do those operations in Louisiana.
In actual fact short-term spikes in cost suggest episodic price movements of inputs.
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An airline spokesman says passengers are more interested in cost rather than comfort.
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The difference in cost would be made up by the companies paying Ubisoft to put their ad in the game.
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As the big oil firms have sacked thousands of staff in cost-cutting drives, the independents have recruited geologists and engineers.
Jones, Rockwell's chief executive, has wrung hundreds of millions of dollars in cost cuts, he never shortchanges the important stuff.
The public cloud providers are a juggernaut, competing with each other to offer never-ending increases in performance and decreases in cost.
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