Indeed there is a strong correlation between relative wages and opportunities for externalizing costs in a society.
In recent years, programming costs for prime-time originals have soared as the opportunities to recoup those costs have become increasingly difficult.
With these opportunities and with costs cut through consolidation, "They're going to mint money eventually on the lower cost structure, " he says.
In theory, underwriting bonds as well as loans, or offering life insurance along with savings accounts, creates new sales opportunities and minimises costs.
Additionally, you could find opportunities to reduce costs, streamline processes or enhance customer loyalty, thus adding tangible value that could literally make you indispensable.
Researchers have found that women are reluctant to speak up about their accomplishments and that reluctance costs them opportunities to advance their careers and their businesses.
For the most part, this means areas that offer the best mix of job opportunities, reasonable housing costs and, for the most part, lower density living.
Unfortunately, it doesn't fare as well when it comes to living costs or job opportunities.
Phil Milwood from General Motors said the scheme would cut costs and provide opportunities for the area.
The second wave of investment will focus on infrastructure to address new supply locations, delivering the product to market, and capitalizing on the near term opportunities arising from lower energy costs.
And it reduces ongoing healthcare costs, expands educational opportunities and creates a more reliable workforce.
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These missed opportunities and inefficiencies can contribute to congestion costs and impede access to low-cost supply.
Many regulations will simply impose costs, but some will present opportunities.
This is revealing new opportunities for growth and helping companies to lower their costs.
But permitting firms to both deduct interest costs and expense equipment would create troubling opportunities for tax shelters.
There are limited opportunities in greenfield project development, owing to escalating costs and longer gestation periods than before.
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Christensen also disagrees with the popular idea that in evaluating new opportunities, we should base our decisions on marginal costs and revenues.
Asked about further closures, the government said it would be looking for other "opportunities to modernise our custodial estate and drive down costs".
Loxley Pacific's mobile plans should dramatically cut these costs, and give the Thai company new opportunities.
We know that when employee productivity, customer satisfaction or employee engagement declines, it costs our companies billions of dollars in lost opportunities.
The combination of shifting demographics, weaker employment opportunities, new instruction technologies, and inability to contain costs will almost certainly lead to an increasing number of institutional failures in higher ed in the coming years.
While those rapidly falling costs destroy solar manufacturer margins, they improve the opportunities for profitable solar farms.
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Opportunities will be limited not by imagination but by how quickly costs collapse.
First, we need to focus on the absolutely practical opportunities that exist in front of us to change health care costs.
It said increased disposal costs and a shortage of RDF users had limited opportunities to export the fuel, further contributing to "unsustainable operating losses".
Roberson estimates that the athletic departments he works with spend six to eight percent of their total construction costs for Advent to come in and build branding opportunities into the final project.
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We want to lower the transaction costs, find new ways of establishing credit history and create opportunities for exit rounds.
That is, by leveraging existing internet technologies, educational opportunities can become available to more students, with better outcomes and at lower costs.
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In 2013, business travellers could see increased costs in Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe as executives look for new opportunities in these emerging markets.
Then, providing they can reduce space launch costs by a large factor, they may be able to exploit new business opportunities, including passenger traffic to outer space.
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