Making cost savings now in anticipation of fewer blockbusters and falling profits in the future is sensible.
When profits grow considerably faster than sales, management is probably making cost cuts, which are one-time efforts that cannot be repeated over and over.
For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.
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Low cost lending can substantially reduce the cost of a clean energy project, making it cost competitive with fossil fuel generation or close to cost competitive and thus requiring much lower subsidies.
From tombstones to coffins to cemeteries, Americans are rethinking their death rituals and making more cost-friendly choices.
Food prices have risen while the peso has fallen, making the cost of basic necessities more and more expensive.
Instead what they do is prevent most bids for acquiring a business by making the cost of an acquisition artificially high.
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Moreover, any users who abandoned Windows would have to scrap investments in software and training, making the cost of switching prohibitive.
For one thing, they typically charge a simple subscription fee per user, making the cost of information technology easier to see and manage.
With its solar panel backed up by a wind-up crank, coupled with excellent speaker quality, large groups of 60 can listen, making it cost effective.
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The falling value of the rupee is making the cost of petroleum products much higher in India than the increase in their prices in dollars.
Work that cannot be done one year because the money has run out is being deferred to the next, stretching the project out and ultimately making it cost more.
Apple has been hinting about making lower cost smartphones.
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But making a low cost entry level phone in order to attract people into the Apple ecosystem.
In the meanwhile, it is imperative that the firm continues making progress with cost reductions and efficiency improvements for its thin-film panels.
When it expanded to India in 2011, for instance, Danone began making low-cost, vitamin rich products that can be stored at room temperature.
American MBA programmes are typically twice the length of those in Europe, making both the cost and the opportunity cost of studying there higher.
It could also be a neat way to modularize future movie tie-in games making them more cost effective to produce and offer better value to the player.
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I'm looking forward to discussing ways to encourage more investment in developing nations by making low-cost financing options for clean energy a priority of the international development banks.
Capping pricing structures, hindering profit and business expansion will limit the capacity for operators to expand coverage and improve services, making broadband access cost-prohibitive for millions of people.
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The price of storage continues to decline significantly, up to 30-40 percent per year, making it more cost effective to add capacity than to spend the valuable time and effort required to find and delete data.
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Phil Mickelson at 2007 Barclays Singapore OpenFederal tax law changes beginning in 2013 could further aggravate the situation because of rules applicable to high income taxpayers that could reduce itemized deductions (including the federal state income tax deduction) by as much as 80%, making the net cost of state income taxes more expensive.
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The maximum cost of making a call has been set at 33 pence per minute plus VAT, while the maximum cost of receiving a call will be 16p plus VAT.
It is not that they are incapable of making "rational" cost-benefit calculations, by their own lights.
Goldman on guidance: The investments Yahoo is making will translate into cost-savings and growth later.
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The point is that risky bets are fine if the cost of making them is low enough.
Increasing broadband adoption is not only a question of providing access, but making it reliable and cost effective.
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The cost of failed loans is actually part of the cost of making those loans in the first place.
The cost of making a short-term target is that long-term business generally suffers.
Cheaper steel and copper should help reduce the cost of making wind turbines.
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