Almost half of it is devoted to programs that would test various ways to curb costs and increase quality.
But maybe the idea does have merit and it would somehow increase quality and save money to keep a hospital running at full steam seven days a week rather than five.
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"The benefit of having multiple investment managers, custodians and clearing firms all competing for our advisors' business is that you get to drive down costs and increase quality and empower the advisor to be the quarterback for his clients, " says Pottruck.
The good news is that, just as businesses are transforming their processes by investing in technologies such as cloud computing and big data analytics to lower operating costs, increase quality, make better decisions, and boost productivity, schools can do the same.
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The CPI also ignores the direct cost of property taxes--sure to go up as states and cities bail out underfunded pension plans--and subtracts the "hedonic" effects of regulations that increase quality of life, such as the added expense of pollution-reducing gasoline additives.
Better yet, they allow the definition of each to be made by the individual, through choice of care providers and services, and the type of catastrophic insurance that gets paired up to it, all the while harnessing the power of the free market to increase quality and reduce costs.
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When they do, they increase the quality and quantity of food that they consume.
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Some argue that we should have much higher teacher pay to increase the quality of our teachers.
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It claims local pay will increase the quality of public services, help the private sector create more jobs and save the government money.
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OERs provide member states with a strong opportunity to increase the quality and access to education and facilitates knowledge sharing, dialogue, and capacity building.
The chiefs of police were interested in sharing data with the citizens and leveraging that data to increase the quality of their policing efforts.
Sudden movements in data, which might not produce an immediate increase in quality, are thus reflected gradually, much as the improvement would affect students.
"We will have to increase the number of police but it's clear we will have to increase the quality of police as well, " he told the Commons.
The hand offers "unparalleled dexterity and control, enabling wearers to more easily perform activities of daily living and thus increase their quality of life, " said Ian Stevens, CEO of Touch Bionics.
Reductions in excessive work hours increase product quality.
For one, police officers were actually fascinated by the data possibilities of the website and were truly excitied about the possibility of leveraging the internet to increase the quality of their communication with the citizens of their town.
As we reported earlier, they are taking LCD's and displays in general to the next step, by producing greater contrast ratios (200k:1), which will increase the quality of the picture we get from all currently available displays.
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To attain similar effects, a school has to either lower tuition by 3.8 percent or increase the quality of its education by recruiting higher-quality faculty, who are paid 5 percent more than their average peers in the academic labor market.
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It has been known for years that in a range of animals from insects to birds the males increase the quality and quantity of the sperm they ejaculate when those sperm are likely to find themselves in competition with sperm from another male.
The trouble is one of the real points of QE is central banks swap lower quality, potentially liquidity- impaired collateral with higher quality collateral of their own, in the hope that by the fact they are swapping it, in itself it will increase the quality of a potentially impaired asset.
The much larger sensor and superior processing gives you massively better image quality, they're much faster (with little or no lag) so better for action, there's a lot more creative control over things like depth of field, the option to change lenses, add flashguns etc add to creative possibilities and also increase image quality.
These businesses demonstrably create high-quality jobs that increase economic opportunity and improve quality of life in communities across the U.S. and around the world.
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Increase access to quality literacy and non-formal education through innovative literacy and NFE programming.
In 2006, new safe drinking water standards were introduced that increase the water quality monitoring parameters from 35 to 106 items.
The establishment of factories would increase productivity and quality control, and reduce the need to have the carpets washed, trimmed and finished by third parties in Pakistan.
Since this is an investment that must be repaid by electricity consumers, it is crucial that they receive an increase in the quality of service commensurate with the cost.
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Horowitz elaborates that profits in the education sector can be expected to promote competition and innovation that lead to an increase in the quality of educational provision, better value for the customer, and a more efficient allocation of resources, a point that CCAP elaborated on it is 2010 study, For-Profit Higher Education: Growth, Innovation and Regulation.
Not only will the quantity of drug candidates increase, but their quality should, too.
While the industry continually adopts new technologies to face these emerging challenges, original equipment manufacturers put pressure on tiered suppliers to reduce costs, increase output, improve quality and deliver more frequently.
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