Together we surfaced opportunities in areas where innovation might deliver greater value at lower cost such as network sharing, network (and security) operations centers, and wireless applications.
This meant a different thought process as every component in the machine had to be redesigned to provide value at a lower cost.
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First, because knowing history matters -- it can safeguard us from repeating our mistakes and help us value our rights, won at great cost.
Even Census admits that some of the people who receive Medicaid, or food stamps, value what they receive at less than the cost of providing it.
In fact, the essence of growth is creating more value with fewer inputs (or at lower input cost).
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The dispute between the Easyjet founder and the board of the company centres on Sir Stelios' belief in creating shareholder value over what he terms "expansion at any cost".
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"We've said that needs to be looked at, and looked at in terms of value for money and cost, but we wouldn't want to see anybody being made compulsorily redundant, " Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said on the BBC News Channel.
The value of a company should be based on the value of its future free cash flows discounted at its cost of capital.
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Its use may halt a bank run, but at the cost of eventually trashing the value of the currency and indirectly the value of depositor accounts too.
The primary difference is the presentation of all System Open Market Account (SOMA) securities holdings at amortized cost rather than the fair value presentation required by GAAP.
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For example, managers are less loaded up with share options, which has reduced their temptation to chase deals that deliver a short-term pay-off at the cost of long-term value creation.
However, if you are a significant shareholder of a smaller-cap company like wireless connectivity provider iPass (nasdaq: IPAS - news - people ) and intend to present a legitimate resolution at the meeting to unlock shareholder value, the cost of getting to California for the meeting would be an allowable deduction.
So what we actually do is value all government spending, for GDP purposes, at the cost of that actual spending.
"These new features bring instant, additional value to Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350 customers at no extra cost and position Slingbox firmly as a device of choice in the living room, " said Sling Media's Senior Vice President and General Manager Raghu Tarra.
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Customers are either dealing with the very complex physics of 20-nanometer design or they are squeezing the last bit of performance and cost from designs at mature, high-value nodes.
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In order to avoid penalties, employers must offer a plan that covers at least 60% of the of the actuarial value of the cost of the benefits.
It has come at a high cost, as companies have seen their market value dwindle.
Obsession, at the cost of human lives, is of more questionable value.
Even for bigger international beasts that can leverage their own balance sheets at minimal cost, shareholders would expect them to find far better value beyond US shores.
For those that make the cut, count on HBO to promote the value of gathering a half-dozen fight fans at one house, where the cost per head is about the same as going to the movies.
Its whole thesis that the Pentagon needs to start searching for alternatives hangs on government cost estimates, but it simply takes those estimates at face value without asking why the costs keep rising or whether the estimates are even valid.
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And your collection mechanism has to cost you less than the additional value you get by having more material at the end of it.
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At the same time, deflation eats into the value of homes, increases the cost of investment credit for corporations, reduces profits and even wage packets.
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The Plaza Group claims in bankruptcy filings that it was undone by recent accounting rules that force private equity partnerships to write down the value of their investments in accordance with market valuations, as opposed to holding them at cost.
Meanwhile, there is a trend in accounting standards away from valuing assets at historic cost (ie, what they cost to buy) towards fair value (ie, what they would fetch if sold).
If we have some policy idea that will save lives we need to compare the cost of implementing that policy against the number of lives saved at that statistical value.
That certainty has economic value as a hedge, even if the capital cost of wind and solar power stations is, at the moment, higher than that of coal-fired ones.
But the bank is adding low-cost deposits, and with the stock trading at a mere 95% of its book value, Schutz is staying put.
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a case that tests a philosophical question at the heart of modern tort law: If the cost of pursuing a lawsuit exceeds its value to an individual plaintiff, is that a bad thing?
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