With eyes fixed firmly on the bottom line, Seoul hospitals are saving costs wherever they can.
These do not try to outperform the stockmarket, but instead track a broad market index, saving costs and charging lower management fees.
Thanks to the hydro-wind project, the island will no longer need to import 6, 000 tons of diesel by boat, saving costs and cutting its CO2 emissions down by 18, 700 tons annually.
Even better, improved access to drugs appears to be saving costs elsewhere: The Congressional Budget Office found every one percent increase in prescriptions filled results in a .20 percent decrease in spending in Medicare.
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In the productive sector, it is clear that the advantages the cities once had from reducing transport costs for manufactured goods are no longer important. but the urban advantage in saving transport costs for people and ideas still matters.
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Commercial paper became the rage in the 1960s as a means of borrowing short-term money and saving interest costs by bypassing the banks.
Businesses with server farms or massive data centers could eliminate performance bottlenecks and ensure long-term upgradability while saving significant operational costs in space and energy.
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Where feasible, Insight uses direct shipping -- that is, it transmits the order to the supplier, who then ships to the customer, saving Insight inventory costs.
Where feasible, Insight uses direct shipping -- that is, it merely transmits the order to the supplier, who then ships to the customer, saving Insight inventory costs.
Their operating profits will widen, their land holdings will rise in value, and they will sell their new homes much more quickly, saving on capital costs, he argues.
They also see search advertising as a better business than display, and tend not to buy Bartz's arguments that saving on search costs and increasing the number of Yahoo!
The advantage for Chinese buyers is that goods are mailed to a warehouse in Dallas and bulk-shipped to China, saving on postage costs, with 10 to 14 days of delivery time.
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The Georgetown factory was able to mothball one of its three painting booths, saving energy and upkeep costs.
But saving money on development costs turned out to be a false economy.
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So that's why the company will build up to 800, 000 midsize cars and car-based crossovers off of one common chassis, saving billions in engineering costs.
Is it all about cutting costs and saving money for the marketers who have an in-house agency, as an ANA study suggested a couple of years ago?
But instead of saving money by shifting costs to seniors, like the congressional Republican plan proposes, our approach would lower the cost of health care throughout the entire system.
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Dell have consolidated hundreds of smaller applications onto a single, global platform, reducing IT complexity, saving millions in IT costs, and increasing the speed and agility of their businesses.
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Where they were once faced with overwhelming complexity, today our customers can actually act on their strategy and adapt rapidly, realizing tremendous return on their technology investment and saving significantly on IT costs while reaching new levels of strategic agility.
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If New York et al. succeed in their war against trans fats, and as government becomes even more involved in health care, prissy New York-style food police will ramp up their efforts to mandate how we live and how we eat in the name of containing health care costs and saving us from ourselves.
Mr. Obama has said he is strengthening Medicare by bringing down the government's costs and by saving seniors money on prescription drugs.
Also modern enterprise storage technology, whether it is flash memory, HDDs or magnetic tape include new power saving features to minimize the costs of storage.
In addition, Quidsi developed a software program, called Boxem, that calculates the best sized box for any individual order, saving on shipping and other costs.
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But at the end of the day, these costs end up saving -- these initial investments end up saving consumers over the life of the program.
Kassalow figured BRAC's 80, 000-strong sales force could help him scale up faster while saving money on training and administrative costs.
The goal is to think through high performance in those areas to drive down costs while improving and saving lives.
Cooks merged last year with MyTravel, and cut 2, 800 jobs as part of huge cost-saving plans to offset high fuel costs and steep competition.
That has cut capital on hand by hundreds of millions of dollars, a substantial percentage of the bank's capital, saving millions a year in funding costs.
Under those 1996 reforms, two-thirds of the poor on the program left for work, resulting in a documented increase in their incomes of 25%, while saving taxpayers 50% of the costs of the old program.
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