This device can then be used as the basis for more integrated and cost-efficient, high-volume production versions to help reduce the time and costs of getting to market.
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In addition, the independents are allowed to take percentage depletion, while the integrated firms must use cost depletion.
Gas accounts for 26% of Wheeling-Pittsburgh's energy usage and perhaps 15% of the manufacturing cost in its integrated steel mills.
However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
Other nations have leapt ahead by implementing clean energy strategies that coordinate long-term investment in integrated research and development, low-cost financing for clean tech manufacturers, and stable policies to ensure domestic demand for clean energy.
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Exxon-Mobil, like all integrated oil and gas companies is finding the cost of replacing and growing reserves has a nasty habit of rising.
This highly integrated system-on-chip enables a cost-effective design for mid- to high-level infotainment systems and can scale to add the functionality of an external applications processor.
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Going forward, look for the latest, greatest, high-end devices to all be vertically integrated, while many of the low-cost, copy-cat devices will come to the market later and be made by mass market manufacturers like Samsung.
Basically, SSA would guarantee low-cost private supplemental annuities that would be integrated with the government program.
"Companies are suffering information loss, but they don't talk about it because it could easily hurt their business, " explains Duhl, who says businesses will be slower to assign rights to their content until they better understand how it will be integrated into their existing setup, and what the cost will be.
The complementary nature of these transactions should lead to cost-saving synergies once they are fully integrated.
This integrated model has made it possible for us to achieve cost savings on a vast scale.
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Such land-based, integrated farming techniques offer great promise but with minimal environmental cost.
The company said it would achieve this by leveraging existing resources to expand sales, achievement of cost savings and extracting the full benefits of a vertically integrated business.
Besides Sybase and our mobile device management and app development platform, there are plenty of competing firms (though our position is that most of those are less integrated solutions that will, for large or growing firms, create more cost in the long run).
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Mr Bush's health-care experts reckon that this integrated approach to Medicare insurance will offer more choice to patients, as well as cost savings through competition.
When integrated into modern disaster risk management schemes, traditional management techniques have proven to be efficient and cost-effective tools to mitigate environmental risks and reduce vulnerability.
The U.S. integrated steel business is dirty, cyclical and always under siege from foreign producers and nimble, low-cost U.S. minimill operators like Nucor Corp.
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