He must increase the efficiency of the fertiliser subsidy, which last year cost 758 billion rupees, or about 1.5% of GDP, by paying it directly to needy farmers instead of lucky fertiliser makers.
ScotRail said last week the cost of its tickets would rise by 3.9% in January.
Wal-Mart is notorious for squeezing every last ounce of cost it can out of its suppliers--much as Dell has done with its suppliers for years.
Yes it would be a little more expensive than the cheapest fares today, but certainly much less onerous than what a last minute purchase cost.
It froze the scheme last year because cost estimates were turning out far higher than expected, at a time when it was reining in spending.
Support for the capitalist and enterprise-friendly Free Democrat party shrunk to 2.7% of the vote, a 7% decline from the last election that cost the party their seats in the state parliament.
The reliance on low interest rates to spur activity was exemplified in the weekly MBA mortgage activity indices where a challenged housing market failed to spark either purchase or refinancing activity despite a slide in borrowing cost last week.
In the last quarter, homes cost an average 0.4% less than the same period last year.
The company has been implementing cost cutting moves during the last few quarters, and financial results last month started to show signs that the cost cutting moves were paying off.
Moreover, while the cost of a desktop PC is flat, having changed little in the last five years, the cost of implementing VDI is falling quickly.
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However, over the last 50 years the cost of energy has been flat or inching up.
He quoted a lesser figure, saying that had been the cost the last time.
Over the last 50 years the cost of information has been dramatically reduced and at the heart of it is the semiconductor.
During the last expansion, the cost of labor to employers did rise.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that consumer prices declined last month as the cost of gas fell sharply and food prices were unchanged.
Last month, the cost of the planned power cable to link renewable energy projects on the Western Isles and mainland Scotland increased by 75%.
The government also said consumer prices declined last month as the cost of gas fell sharply while food prices were unchanged, the latest evidence that inflation is in check.
While Holyrood says it is fully committed to the funding of free personal care, figures published last year showed the cost of providing it had risen by more than 150% since 2005.
That led to painful cost cuts, last year at Intel, and earlier this year, at AMD.
Yet the experience of Thailand last year illustrates the greater cost of doing nothing.
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He notes that cost of revenue last year in the September quarter increased to 63.1% from 60.9% sequentially.
After the last one, the annual cost of public pay and pensions eventually swelled by 600 billion rupees.
Last year, the rental cost of a jack-up drilling rig went up 66%.
By splitting the vote, it probably cost the right last summer's parliamentary election.
The rising cost of wheat last year, affected by wildfires and droughts in Russia, pushed up the price of bread.
Gibernau had been seeking revenge over the world champion for the last-lap incident which cost him a win at Jerez.
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Newham, the Olympic borough, has declined to confirm how much the show cost in the last year before it was rebranded.
With the cost of the last worker hired now greater than his productivity, a profit-maximising firm will reduce employment and output.
And at the same time, over the last two decades, the cost of college has doubled -- it's actually more than doubled.
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Even the buyer, sushi chain owner Kiyoshi Kimura, who also paid out the record price last year, said the cost was "a bit high".
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