Aetna (AET) announced that fourth-quarter profit increased by 73 percent, due to low usage of medical services and other expenses being cut.
Given low usage in emerging markets like Asia and Latin America, Kimberly-Clark could focus on driving usage of tissues by communicating health and hygiene benefits or the importance of preserving water.
The report also recommended that a community-run library in a post office branch in Weston Rhyn, Oswestry, should be closed in March, due to the high cost and low usage ratio.
Other arguments against I-File: States that have used free filing systems have had a relatively low usage rate--a federally run program could make auditing easier (and more likely) and it wouldn't necessarily encourage taxpayers to take all deductions possible.
If one takes the ideas that heterogeneous computing is primarily about efficiency (read: low power usage), and that ARM, with its legacy in mobile phones, is known for low power usage, then a future that includes AMD parts with actual ARM processor cores running them suddenly seems likely.
Will it get us back down to low unemployment and full usage of our manufacturing capacity?
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Even among smartphone users, data shows that QR code usage is low.
This report identified the Green Dot Prepaid Card and the American Express Prepaid Card as being the best choices for these options, respectively, primarily because of their low costs for typical usage.
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Pinterest usage was dismally low for more than a year (by the end of 2010, it has only 10, 000 users).
The always-on, low energy wireless connection minimizes usage of the phone battery and lets people track their activity even when their iPhone isn't nearby.
But distinctive mobile usage patterns have emerged that accommodate low attention spans, multiple input options for search terms and presentation of rich content.
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The manufacturer can shift energy usage to periods when power prices are low to offset the production losses resulting from this arrangement, improving his or her bottom line.
Yes, you can see the current situation of lots of cash, a low price-earnings multiple, name recognition, enterprise usage.
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Simple to use, and with a low-fuss factor, it has consistently high rates of usage - securing its place among the 10 most effective purchases.
We managed to run Quadrant on the device and unsurprisingly the phone clocked in a comparatively low score of 2254, corroborating the sluggish real-world usage evinced.
The biggest reason, it turns out, for the vast disparity in browser usage between Android and iOS, is how many low-end Android devices there are out there in the hands of users with little motivation to upgrade.
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Often times these types of cards offer low to zero percent introductory rates which make the initial months of usage particularly attractive.
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Right now, at our current low levels of carbon dioxide, plants are paying a heavy price in water usage.
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Eliminating underutilized servers will lower energy usage so consolidation and virtualization can cut data storage costs as well as enable low-cost disaster recovery capabilities.
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Mobile internet usage in Africa is increasing rapidly as Orange continues to deploy 3G networks and make more low-cost smartphones available, customers have been steadily moving from basic feature phones towards more low-cost Android smartphones.
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