More than ever, governments are looking to new technologies and approaches to help them operate more cost effectively and to deliver exceptional services to constituents with fewer resources.
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It is understood the airport has not received any offers from other airline companies to operate low-cost flights.
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Now, to help businesses operate at less cost, the Energy Department will develop new manufacturing processes and materials that use half as much energy.
It needed to operate at a cost of no more than five cents (3p) a day and would ideally capture energy or other resources.
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But the industry average cost to operate and sell gas is 15 cents per gallon.
First, the reduced cost to operate such services may be less than it first appears.
If Best Buy goes online it will simply be killed as it does not operate on the same cost structure as Amazon.
The recent fall in the price of crude oil has already forced them to co-operate to reduce the cost of developing new oilfields.
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"We will go through our federal budget - page by page, line by line - eliminating those programmes we don't need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way, " he said.
Gathering data from several of Cisco's test customers, he found that the cost to operate the router is a fifth to a half the combined energy usage and maintenance costs of the hardware that hosts the same services.
Businesses try to co-operate, but at a cost in efficiency and confidence.
Local government bodies under extreme financial distress are handing over control of prisons to corporations who are able to operate facilities at a lower cost.
Wood gets local communities to contribute much of the cost to build and operate a library or school.
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This will engender all banks and businesses to operate more safely and enjoy lower cost overheads as well.
But it's an expensive way to operate, and if low-cost manufacturing arrives--watch out.
Transatlantic anti-trust immunity is a holy grail for European and American airlines, allowing carriers to effectively operate as one without all the cost and rigmarole of a full merger.
This is effectively a financing instrument which further details not only the potash reserves by perhaps shooting 3D seismic but also specifically itemizes the cost to construct and operate the mines.
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Instead of scheduling a plane, which could take longer owing to the time required to make arrangements with the local airport, drones would be lower-cost and able to operate even if there was cloud cover, he said.
Ignoring them not only negatively affects your ability to operate a vehicle safely, but can cost you money in other areas as well.
Such actions could cut off the bank from certain investors like pension funds and ultimately cost it its charter to operate in the United States.
They are seeking the lowest-price, lowest-cost areas in which to operate.
Translation: Yes, the streaming service is going to cost Netflix substantially more to operate and the shrinking DVD rental business can no longer be a distraction.
"Housing first" was comparatively cheap, for one thing: a homeless shelter might look squalid, but it cost a great deal to operate -- more, oftentimes, than a proper apartment with kitchen and bath.
But the simple, low-cost mobile-banking systems that operate in countries such as Kenya, India or Brazil suggest otherwise.
Both cleaners capture more than four times the debris of other cleaners and cost just pennies a day to operate, reducing energy consumption up to 90 percent.
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RTOs, meantime, cost hundreds of millions a year to operate and to administer.
Europe's low-cost carriers, which don't operate transatlantic routes, are faring better.
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The difference is that this intervention cost only about a tenth as much to operate.
Half of that 1.3-1.5 percent cost is disclosed by the portfolio managers who operate your mutual funds.
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The government should also adopt a rational approach to regulation that ensures that plants operate safely while leaving flexibility for operators to find the most cost-effective ways to comply.
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