Time being money, GM's effort has resulted in tens of billions in saved costs.
If Say was right, then the saved costs from technology and outsourcing will show up as money for new investment and future jobs.
By such maneuvers he not only saved manufacturing costs but also shrank overhead from 12.6% of sales in 1998 to 10.9% in 2000.
In New York, at the 20 media magazines that include Variety, Tad S. Smith, the unit's president, cut head count 16%, saved printing costs by slightly trimming the paper size and tightened circulation by cutting out unnecessary freebies to advertisers and his colleagues at Reed.
There will be 650 additional spaces at special schools, over the next three years, with money saved on transport costs being spent on specialist education, he said.
Sometimes a settlement takes into consideration saved time and legal costs or the difficulties of presenting witnesses or documents.
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And I doubt if employers, who saved billions by shifting costs to their employees, are eager to tell them how they are being gouged.
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Tillery Valley Foods site director Phil Hall said diverting foods which had been packaged wrongly to Fare Share prevented them ending up in the bin and also saved the company landfill costs, as well as boosting employee morale.
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Thus, the bottom line to dropping 65 and 66 year olds from Medicare means that money is not really being saved so much as costs are being shifted away from the government program and onto the shoulders of virtually every single American.
Money saved by residents on transportation costs can be spent on housing, goods, and services.
He saved the company, cutting costs and then consolidating, buying National Discount Brokers and Datek.
Professor Elaine Farmer, from the University of Bristol, said the arrangements known as kinship care saved the state "considerable costs".
They calculated that, in this one hospital, the checklist had prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs.
There is solid evidence to suggest that by cutting back on unnecessarily expensive procedures and prescriptions, anything from 10% to 30% of health costs could be saved: a gigantic sum.
The car dealer at Mitsubishi tried to explain how rapidly the car would pay back the initial cost in saved petrol and congestion charge costs - but how many motorists will swallow that when they could get two or three petrol cars for the price of an electric vehicle?
History teaches that such a posture invites foreign aggression and costs far more than is saved through short-term and short-sighted cuts.
The SBA also has saved entrepreneurs potentially billions in excess regulatory costs--all while cutting its overhead by 24%, according to the Office of Management and Budget, which helps the president formulate and administer the national budget.
Once on the road, with the narrow margins of profit versus costs in travel, I never saved money.
Two or four inexpensive injections saved tens of thousands of dollars in hospital costs and care of handicapped infants.
Mr Beasant, a Lib Dem councillor for the East Marsh ward, said there was a "great deal of cost involved in pulling down" the terraced houses in addition to the rebuild costs, which would have been saved if the properties were improved instead.
"I have no doubt that their actions on the night saved many people from being injured, at quite some personal costs to themselves, " he said.
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Over the past few years, Ryan has implemented an improved methodology for product delivery at Sprint which has reduced product cycle times and saved the company millions of dollars annually in rework and development costs.
According to the government's own bovine-tb-impact-assessment, the public costs of carrying out the cull exceed any money saved from predicted falls in bovine TB (an average 16% reduction in new cases over nine years - in absolute figures, this amounts to preventing 47 out of 292 infected herds, for an area about half the size of the Gloucestershire pilot zone).
The euro can be saved, at least for a while, Tory bigwigs believe, but the costs will be high: new institutions, fiscal transfers and sharper wage differentials.
This device was returned significantly less than unapproved devices and ultimately saved Cincinnati Bell an estimated half a million dollars in support, retail, and logistics costs.
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The cumulative results predict a 60 percent reduction in energy costs and more than 9, 000 kg of CO2 (55 percent reduction) saved from a single home.
What finally saved the city was anxiety about the fallout, in the form of possible bank insolvencies and borrowing costs for the rest of America, had it been unable to pay its debts.
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