That in other areas might vary one way or the other, to higher or lower costs per tonne not emitted.
The question is, are the costs of treating the illnesses and deaths brought on by those three indulgences higher or lower than the costs of treating those who live healthily but still inevitably die?
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It is the biggest seller of pens and markers in the world and the top seller of picture frames, but it has made scant effort to squeeze suppliers or move production to Asia or Mexico to lower costs.
Success in both wind and solar energy depends on scale, or the ability to lower costs by producing large amounts.
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Employees are given "decision rights" according to their demonstrated ability to make choices that result in lower costs or returns that exceed the company's "opportunity cost, " which Koch defines as the returns from investing in the best alternative.
Companies able to borrow directly from Uncle Sam or with federal backing enjoy lower interest costs than their competitors.
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As well, private equity firms continue to focus on transactions that either (1) monetize existing assets via dividends and sponsor-to-sponsor sales, (2) lower financing costs, or (3) extend maturities.
According to Christine Eibner, a Rand economist and an author of the study, businesses with 50 or less employees will additionally experience lower costs by 2016 thanks to their being able to join a substantially larger pool of buyers thanks to the state insurance exchanges.
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Many startups only recently entered the market and need to gain manufacturing scale to lower their production costs, or else they will never be competitive, Mehta said.
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This had led to demands on central banks to support the financial system, stimulate the economy and lower government refinancing costs "or even secure the solvency of a state", he said.
Using less electricity, using less oil or using less water helps keep operating costs lower which allows Wal-Mart to keep prices down.
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This will either allow these processors to boast bigger cache memories letting them run faster, or to have smaller die sizes and lower manufacturing costs.
The panel also said the universities must control costs to the inflation rate or lower "through improved efficiency and productivity, " including the greater adoption of online education.
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If they can replace 100 to 200 Sun servers or x86 servers with two or three PURE systems they will have lower hardware costs, less to pay in software licensing, plus savings in the real estate, power and cooling.
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While Mr. Roy, a Wall Street analyst, can no doubt afford that hot new piece of technology on day one of release, most Americans have to wait until the manufacturer has amortized enough of its costs to lower the price or, alternatively, settle for something they can more easily afford or for nothing at all.
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Health insurance costs are lower when larger pools or groups of people are involved.
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This leaves them free to travel and the costs are much lower than 50 or even 30 years ago.
The researchers said there was little evidence of higher regulation or ineffective legal systems to explain the lower European liability costs.
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You will want to pay particular attention to any mention of increased costs, lower profit margins, or talk of cost pass-through to the consumer.
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As long as owners drive at least 12, 000km a year, overall running costs will be equivalent to, or lower than, a petrol or diesel-powered car.
That in turn can lower the air conditioning costs for a home or a commercial building.
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So for each dollar of corporate welfare that is cut, we save more than one dollar, either through less inflation, reduced interest expenses, increased future private sector spending (due to lower taxation), reduced government costs, or all of the above.
Johnson notes that utilities Duke and Xcel have scaled back or postponed previously announced solar projects because of lower demand and high costs.
Hon Hai and other companies have moved some operations to countries such as Vietnam and Mexico, where costs for labor or transportation to end markets are lower.
Once the technology is in full production, TRW can sell it back to the government at ever lower costs as satellite receivers for deployment on battlefields or in disaster areas.
Indeed, productivity-driven deflation, in which costs and prices are pushed lower by technological advances or by deregulation, is beneficial, because lower prices lift real incomes and hence spending power.
And in some cases a bank decides on its own to hold on to a transfer in the hope of getting a better foreign-exchange rate for the customer the following day, or in order to batch it with other transfers and so lower its costs.
Most LED companies today talk about payback, or how long it takes to make up the higher upfront costs in lower energy bills.
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