Investing in product development around the world, including China, Ford faced higher commodity and structural costs, while it saw sales increase and it paid off its debt.
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Does it institute nationwide structural changes that curb costs and raise quality?
As part of its mid-term strategic initiatives announced in April 2012, Sony identified resource optimization as one of the key initiatives for transforming its electronics business and Sony has since been progressively implementing various structural reform measures to optimize costs, streamline its overall organization, accelerate decision-making processes and establish firm foundations for sustainable future growth.
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For as silicon costs come down then it is the installation and those structural supports that become an ever larger part of the costs of installing, and thus of generating, solar power.
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Fixed Expenses, also known as structural expenses, are those foundational costs over which you have little monthly control.
The decline is owed to structural factors, including demographics, high domestic costs, and globalization.
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And weak coalition politics undermine hopes of a tight fiscal policy or of structural economic reforms that would maintain competitiveness as costs rise.
This implies, however, that to remain competitive without recourse to devaluation, Italy must introduce structural reforms to boost productivity and hold down costs, as well as sorting out its public finances.
As you know, all developed countries are struggling with the issue of labor costs at home and how to address structural issues in their manufactoring sectors.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has said it will buy unlimited Spanish bonds to keep rates and borrowing costs down, in exchange for major structural reforms.
Under HSTP the aim is to achieve structural efficiencies in three areas production, direct materials costs, and indirect costs, where current total costs are JPY 9 trillion (USD 113 billion).
We've got a long-term structural deficit that is primarily being driven by health care costs and our long-term entitlement programs.
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There are a variety of reasons as to this and some of them are benign, such as raised costs now because more people want new procedures, but administrative costs, paperwork, perverse incentives, all kinds of structural things are wrong with the system that have to be fixed.
Its costs are growing astronomically faster than its financing, and leaving its structural flaws unaddressed will hasten its bankruptcy.
So, rather than shifting costs through short-term cuts, we instead need to make difficult structural changes in our health care programs.
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In this analysis, the Center identified a series of economic measures that would if adopted by the United States impose significant costs on Moscow for its coercive behavior and provide actual incentives toward genuine structural reform.
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In this analysis, the Center identified a series of economic measures that would -- if adopted by the United States -- impose significant costs on Moscow for its coercive behavior and provide actual incentives toward genuine structural reform.
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Rising costs, especially Social Security commitments as the baby-boomer generations retire, will require structural fiscal reform, though.
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America has not managed much in the way of growth-enhancing structural reforms and has a long to-do list, from improving worker training to reining in health-care costs.
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