We appear to be one of the last professions to get away with these reasons in the face of an overwhelming need to save money on space costs.
We also incorporated Economy.com's business cost index, which looks at labor, tax, energy and office space costs and its living cost index, which factors in housing, transportation, food and other household expenditures.
Then, providing they can reduce space launch costs by a large factor, they may be able to exploit new business opportunities, including passenger traffic to outer space.
With the White House and Congress pressuring NASA to reduce space station costs and construction delays, the agency felt compelled to adhere to a fixed shuttle flight schedule for station missions, which would affect non-station missions as well, the report said.
Brownell claims the savings on peripherals, administration and floor space cut overall costs by almost two-thirds.
However, the company recently had to expand their facilities to the city of Chengdu which is more inland so they could have more space at lower costs.
The council has been housed in the Grade I listed hall, set within 42 acres of gardens and parklands, since 1974 but said it now needed less space and maintenance costs on the building were rising.
The main costs of space exploration arise from the fact that we are set on sending humans, rather than robots.
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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Of course there are downsides to living in the countryside - with seclusion and space come inevitably higher transport costs, poor mobile phone coverage and slower internet speeds - but the stats defy any notion that the English rural scene is threatened.
Anand, a former chairman of India's Railway Board, argues that a move in that direction is logical in India, where passengers, by and large, are becoming more expensive, as they demand more space and comfort, while freight by contrast costs less, as improved technology leads to better and faster use of space.
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Factor in such costs, and office space in Rangoon is almost certainly on par pricewise with Midtown Manhattan.
Once done this is cheap and efficient and it brings the costs of getting into space right down.
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The IRS has announced that it is making significant reductions in office space in an effort to cut costs over the next two years.
Its aim is to utilize the same management, office space and resources to save on costs for the three to five startups looking to prove their worth.
The right Class B or C building--despite its shoddier construction and pedestrian ZIP code--can work just fine, even after factoring in costs to upgrade the space, says Maura Cochran, principal at Hartford, Conn.
The improved ability to scale infrastructure up or down to meet dynamically changing and new business needs increases business ability while shared IT infrastructure not only reduces hardware acquisition costs but also results in significant savings in IT staffing costs and data center space, power, and cooling.
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That covers a pension, compensation and benefits for office staff, and the government also picks up the tab for other costs like travel, office space and postage.
Arguably, THQ had to made a play for the AAA space, and could not absorb the costs when it fell short without the scale or market power of its larger rivals.
But the design that is best to win that prize is not necessarily the best design to operate as a commercial vehicle for space tourism, where having low recurring costs is more vital.
The council's executive board has ordered a feasibility study which will investigate the costs of reconfiguring and redeveloping the space.
The sector is heavily dependent on costly imports of the raw materials used in producing fertilizer, and Lula wanted to cut farmers costs, and thus allow for space to reduce subsidies, by getting Vale to dig and produce potassium at sites it has leased from the government, but has not yet produced much of anything.
When you factor in some of the other common expenses like expensive commercial office space, perhaps sky-high midtown Manhattan office space, along with expensive travel, and the costs quickly add up.
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Space constraints will not permit a full rendering of the costs associated with these serial mistakes.
The ability to refuel satellites in space could one day save satellite operators from the significant costs of building and launching new replacement satellites.
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If it is unable to either shift from the big-box retail format to smaller stores, or optimize store space by sub-leasing to other businesses, operating costs will not come down.
"We can put satellites into space at a fraction of the price that it currently costs, " he says and Virgin is working with a "tiny little" company (the name of which hasn't yet been publicly disclosed) to do just that.
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