Users own their Transporter, so the one-time cost of purchase eliminates recurring fees.
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First quarter earnings fell 23% from the year before due to a one-time cost associated with the recall of a hip device.
The initial one-time cost is obvious, but investors also incur the opportunity cost of less money in the fund to earn future returns.
Also, competing on advertising spending in not a one-time cost but if Colgate chooses to play on this turf, it would need to sustain the heightened level of media and advertising spends in the future.
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Sustainable growth also meant growth that was driven by sales--not one-time gains or cost-cutting measures.
Neither the one-time loss nor the estimated cost savings were included in Sony's forecast of consolidated financial results for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, announced on November 2, 2011.
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Excluding charges for cost cuts and other one-time items, per-share earnings fell to 28 cents from 33 cents.
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.
Can one find great managers running low-cost funds that, over time will outperform the stock market?
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They also talk of building a new plant for a new small car, which would cost a fortune, but ignore their at-one-time hugely profitable rear-drive platform.
It's cost-effective because the design and concept development are all done at one time, rather than as separate processes for Gap and GapMaternity.
Over time, if Apple chose to make a low-cost phone like the one described earlier, it could make a 960 x 540 display that worked in the same widescreen form factor.
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