He said safety, rather than cost, should be the top priority when upgrading crossings.
That suggests that they should aim to compete on quality rather than cost.
Refocusing the bureaucracy of university regulation is the first step to ensuring a diversity of provision which competes on quality rather than cost.
This could open the door for the government to more easily allow immigration for humanitarian reasons, like the earthquake in Haiti, as the U.S. begins to see immigrants as a benefit to society, rather than cost.
Although German employers like to complain about the country's high wages and taxes (which together mean that its labour costs are around 12% above the country's main international competitors), many admit privately that it is flexibility, rather than cost reductions, which they need most urgently.
Yet the most disquieting news was about the amount of credit being extended rather than its cost.
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It is lack of knowledge and skills that is the main problem, rather than the cost of the work.
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She stressed the importance of procurement by local authorites being more based on quality and outcomes rather than just cost.
As products become more high-tech, production is more complicated, and the quality, rather than the cost of labor, becomes a priority.
Simply, IT departments must shift its focus, its energies, its skill sets towards activities that the business can view as revenue generating rather than just cost efficient.
It prefers to stress the help it would give to the jobless in finding them work they would want to have, rather than the cost savings, and to emphasise the carrot in its workfare scheme, not the stick.
The focus has been on low-cost productivity improvements, rather than high-cost, big bets.
Abundant supplies of low cost energy rather than restricted supplies of high cost energy would replace another, effective, crippling tax increase with an effective pro-growth tax cut.
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They use this information to set the MSRP based on market demand rather than based on cost mark-ups.
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There are some risks so large it makes sense for society to underwrite them, rather than push the cost on to the banking system.
Rather than focus on cost-cutting and bottom lines, ABC's entertainment chief is all about the content--developing and delivering it in the most traditional way possible.
Operators are changing their billing plans, encouraging customers to pay more for phones and keep them longer, rather than subsidising the cost of frequent upgrades.
Every year Fiserv produces software, but rather than expense that cost against earnings, the company declares the software as an asset and amortizes it over time.
Under government proposals the ban is on sales of alcohol below the rate of duty plus VAT, rather than including the cost of producing the drinks.
Builders typically install relatively cheap, attractive appliances (rather than the most cost-effective ones) because they think home buyers lack the foresight or expertise to do the math.
Rolling three-year plans are now much more accurate, and much more cognizant of costs and benefits of the decisions being made and IT is seen as a value contributor, rather than a necessary cost of doing business.
Perhaps the most notable aspect of the report is how widely condemned it was, for failing to take any account of the dynamic impact these and other immigrants can have on economic growth - paying taxes rather than being a cost to society.
Perhaps daunted by all the options offered--all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia offer plans with varying investment choices and fees--75% of parents and grandparents opening new accounts are buying into broker-sold, high-cost plans, rather than investing in the lower-cost plans available directly from such operators as TIAA-CREF , Vanguard and Fidelity .
Giving the brand to an American studio feels like an opportunity cost rather than an artistic gain.
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But, by and large, the successes capitalise on India's strengths as a high-value rather than a low-cost producer.
An airline spokesman says passengers are more interested in cost rather than comfort.
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In addition, depreciation deductions track historical cost rather than rapidly rising replacement costs, adding to short-term profit during inflationary times.
Within this context, Mr Geneen is scathing about modern managers treating their employees as a cost rather than a resource.
In our consolidated balance sheet these shares are carried at cost rather than market, since they are owned by Mutual Savings and Loan, a non-insurance subsidiary.
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He said the new service, which is being phased in from 1 October and will include three reserve helicopters, was focused on cost rather than capability.
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