Competition among funds has failed to curb their operating costs, which amount to a steep 3% of wages in some countries: instead of competing on price, the firms have spent heavily on advertising and sales agents.
As you mentioned, Apple makes a huge amount of its operating profit on the iPod player, so we can expect the company to take this very seriously.
Private schools, which rely on tuition for a substantial amount of their operating budget, have different financial models from public schools, he said, and they need to lock in their enrollment numbers early.
Windows Phone 7 actually had a fair amount going for it as an operating system, and 8 builds on its advantages.
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Samson stressed that the port authority was committing to operating Atlantic City International Airport for a limited amount of time with an option to eventually purchase the SJTA's interests in the airport.
NTT's network altogether, SpeedNet will avoid having to pay the dominant carrier's interconnection charges, which independent telephone companies reckon amount to a third of their total operating costs.
The fuel cell technology, which is being developed with support of the U.S. Office of Naval Research, will be tailored to integrate with solar PV panels, which will reduce the amount of fuel needed to support forward operating military bases.
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The difference is explained by the extraordinary amount the company spends on marketing and other operating expenses.
As recently as 1990, the state contributed more than 60% of the museum's operating budget, while the city continued to provide a token amount, 1% to 2%.
When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
If approved, an operating company might receive a fixed interest rate and term for the amount approved.
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Maybe each of you contributes an equal amount of money or percentage of your paychecks into an operating fund and the bills and household expenses can be paid from there.
To determine the average amount consumers might pay to keep their new cars in operating condition, we used 2008 repair estimates calculated over a five-year period by Vincentric, an auto-industry data-analysis company.
The amount of money they are saving on office space and overhead operating expenses alone, has been monumental.
Colonel MIKE BEACH (4th Infantry Division): They really have the lead in operations, and I have three Iraqi security force brigades operating with me in this area and I will tell you that the amount, tempo and scope of their operations is far exceeding my own brigade's operations.
As a consequence data centers are using an increasingly large amount of power both to run equipment and to keep the operating temperature of that equipment at appropriate levels (this has led to building many newer data centers next to hydro-electric and other inexpensive power sources as well as in colder climates).
London's Underground, for example, has seen its operating subsidy yo-yo from one year to the next, according to the amount of cash the government thinks it has to spare.
That is the same price as an iPad featuring half the amount of storage, albeit with less space taken up by Apple's operating system.
It was an absurd amount of money for the bank to lend Stern, whose business history included operating clothing distribution companies that imported clothes from Mexico and two contentious corporate bankruptcies.
To avoid double taxation, companies operating in states and paying state income taxes can reduce their federal tax obligation by the amount paid to the state (just as individuals can reduce their federal income tax obligation by subtracting their state income tax payment from their income).
Banespa's efficiency is poor: its running costs amount to 114% of its income from interest and commissions (ie, it makes an operating loss).
All three systems are operating on roughly the same population, with roughly he same set of technologies and with about the same amount of money.
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The agency also claims the new scheme will at least double the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered, compared with FutureGen, and that the new plants will be operating by 2015.
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