New Choice Health, which does not charge for its service, lists the average cost insurance companies pay for 400 different procedures at different facilities across the country.
Austin, Texas, which holds the No. 2 spot, also stands out for its low cost of living, varied-size companies and diverse talent pool.
The PlayStation 3 was criticized for its high retail price, which came in part because of the cost of the specialized chips that ran it.
Although it wants to keep all the brands and branches intact, it says there are many benefits from natural wastage (the number of people due to retire is rising quickly) and from cost-cutting in technology, which accounts for most of its savings.
Amazon recently said that firms such as Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn Corp. have used its service, for which Amazon charges clients 10% of the total labor cost.
Malawi's government has invited bids for its 14-seat presidential jet, which is being sold off as part of cost-cutting measures.
That conference (its full title is Capillary Based Microfluidics for Bioanalysis), which focuses on low cost diagnostics and medical devices is in Boston, US. The annual Boring event was originally set up as a joke in 2010.
An unpopular programme which doubles its real cost every five years while providing a deteriorating service is long overdue for the axe.
According to the GE-Arista partnership, GE, the largest maker of power-generation equipment, will join with Arista Power to sell systems that store electricity for commercial customers and release it when demand is at its highest, which would help reduce the cost of electricity.
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For example, the 20nm planes will determine the size of the chip, which will affect both its cost and its power-savings.
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The FBI said its budget figures for Sentinel don't include the cost of government personnel, which is factored into the higher numbers.
Because of its low cost model, Southwest has been stayed profitable for the past 40 years, which is unprecedented in the industry.
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Rather than pay for the full fix itself, which requires a new circuit board for every affected lock, Onity has asked its hotel customers to cover the cost of those hardware replacements.
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He scrapped the team's ad agency and its outdated rotunda pricing scheme, under which all tickets on each arena level cost the same, whether for the corners or center ice.
It is also grappling with a big cost overrun on another of its top priorities - the James Webb Space Telescope - and for which the shortfall will have to be picked up by programmes across the agency, perhaps even human spaceflight.
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