Common causes of slipping margins include increased product costs, increased shipping expense, finance costs, sales and discounting or inventory shrinkage due to theft or waste (food business).
As a result, John Dark, who farms at Mullion, has to undertake a 25-mile trip to market in Truro, meaning extra expense and increased concerns about animal welfare.
Best Buy's strong results for the three months ended Aug. 28 were due to tight expense controls, increased sales of cellphones and services such as connecting televisions with home networks, and a stock repurchase program that reduced total shares outstanding.
In the run-up to the vote on May 6th, in which the Liberals, Labour, and Greens increased their strength at the expense of the Christian Democrats, the Netherlands deployed a technique that did not prevent politicians from promising the moon, but at least forced them to come clean about the cost.
Some fresh, upbeat U.S. economic data released Wednesday also served to give traders and investors some increased risk appetite, at the expense of gold.
American Express reported another strong quarter of earnings as total revenues, net of interest expense and provisions for losses increased 4% year-on-year, for the three months ending March.
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Even if there are positive spillover benefits from increased home ownership, these come at the expense of greater frictions in the labor market.
Critics question the programme's potential to stimulate the economy, when the increased cashflow of borrowers will come at the expense of the investors who own the mortgages.
Increased average borrowing levels have resulted in higher interest expense in both periods.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says increased use of natural gas has come at the expense of coal, which tends to emit significantly more carbon dioxide than natural gas.
Figures quoted by the noted China-watcher James Mann in his book About Face showed that Japanese companies increased their share of many key Chinese markets at the expense of US and European rivals in the early 1990s.
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Still, gross profit declined 2%, principally due to increased building material costs and selling, general and administrative expense rose 14%, primarily due to investments in personnel and other expenses related to plans for growth, including the start-up of its Lexington, Ky.
Also, trading costs are greatly increased by this large turnover and trading costs are not included in fund expense ratios.
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And while the inescapable and obvious result is that increased financial pressure is placed on the private health insurance system at the expense of removing some of the financial pressure on the government run Medicare system, what may not be quite so obvious is the additional financial pressure placed on even the youngest and healthiest people in the private health insurance pools.
He also concluded that increased economic activity in the host city comes at the rest of the country's expense.
Pagon says he has also been unable to coordinate a viable defense with DirecTV against the encroachments of EchoStar's satellite service, whose market share increased from 39% to 42% in the last year, at DirecTV's expense.
He also reckons that increased economic activity in the host city has come at the rest of the country's expense.
These have made management more effective (better information, more timely) and increased the ability of the firm to support expanded operations on expensive but high capacity platforms, spreading the expense over a larger base.
For example, if the Lib Dems increased their share of the vote by 50% (from 19% to 28%) at the expense of Labour, and the Conservatives and Labour both won 33%, then on a uniform swing Labour would have 347 seats, a majority of 48, with 191 Conservatives and just 77 Lib Dem seats, according to estimates by Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University.
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