Some firms improve customer service by empowering customer service reps to drop fees or reduce costs when customers complain.
They want to have more choice, they want to be able put up a wind charger or photovoltaic cells to reduce their costs or actually get paid.
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No rice, corn or other added grains are used to reduce costs or alter taste.
Amtrak has done little to trim inefficient routes or reduce bloated labour costs.
Encourage your child to share a plan with roommates or friends to reduce costs, in order to help the transition.
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More than half of those who took part in the consultation were against closing sub-post offices, suggesting they should be put at parish halls or supermarkets to reduce costs.
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Finally, overcapacity pressured operating margins, impacting players that lack scale or management expertise to reduce costs.
They have an economic incentive to add people to these programs but little or no ability to reduce their costs.
"We also anticipate it will take many months for the new coins to reach significant circulation levels, giving extra time to adapt or replace machines and substantially reduce costs, " he said.
Plans to reduce costs by merging or closing about one-third of state hospitals are running well behind schedule.
And what we did was we took every idea out there about how to reduce or at least slow the costs of health care over time.
Providing payment for futile care takes away resources that can either reduce health care costs or provide better preventive care and early care of chronic disease.
For the very decision about whether to reduce emissions or not depends upon the costs of reducing emissions.
Nearly all states have home and community programs, but many reduce costs by restricting eligibility or limiting benefits.
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Additionally, you could find opportunities to reduce costs, streamline processes or enhance customer loyalty, thus adding tangible value that could literally make you indispensable.
For example, markups are added to expensive pieces of medical equipment, and there is little incentive for manufacturers or suppliers to find ways to reduce production costs, as would normally happen in other parts of the economy.
So much of the rationale in having a CIO take on another area of responsibilities is the need for process improvement in the new area, or the need to leverage technology better in the new area, or to identify ways in which setting standards or centralizing to a greater degree might reduce costs.
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During the 1990s companies placed a greater emphasis on non-regular workers, often reducing or freezing the hiring of regular workers, in order to reduce costs.
If young firms are to survive near-terminal mistakes, or fluctuating demand, they need to be able to reduce staff costs quickly and cheaply when necessary.
Mr Hague has denied that the audit is a step towards disengaging from or leaving the EU, arguing that its aim is to reduce costs and bureaucracy.
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Believe it or not there are many health plan administrative costs that help reduce cost (e.g. disease management, provider contracting) that improve the rates you and I pay.
Or do you take the opportunity to win new friends and reduce your costs at the same time?
High-quality preventive care helps Americans stay healthy, avoid or delay the onset of disease, lead productive lives and help reduce costs.
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Global economic conditions are also speeding the change: one of the quickest ways to cut costs is to reduce the size of your office or even eliminate it completely.
If healthcare is a cost or a liability to a third party, the tendency is to seek to reduce costs.
Having one printing protocol will ease training and support requirements as well as reduce the costs associated with sending documents long distances by overnight mail or fax.
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When the next-generation communications system comes online, the question is whether the cruise lines will reduce their communications costs to passengers because of the changes in technology or whether they will leave costs as they are but offer a greatly enhanced experience for system users.
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Now, though, with the new programs that are popping up, you can decide whether to focus on higher margin products, rework the campaign to reduce click-through costs, pull the plug on the effort, or pursue a different strategy.
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The costs of failing to reduce climate risk must be internalised in the negotiations or agreement will be reached merely by lowering ambition for mitigation .
Australia's Qantas Airways said Thursday it would discontinue or reduce a number of international services, mainly to Japan and Southeast Asian destinations, to cut costs in the face of high oil prices.
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