Additionally, the company can utilize its substantial bargaining power with its suppliers, reducing the impact of industry-wide input cost increases and sustaining profit margins.

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Moreover, even if cotton prices were to remain high, this is an industry wide input cost that would eventually lead to Aeropostale as well as its competitors passing on costs to consumers.

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With support for a wide array of input and output options and a large number of protocols available in the industry including IEC 61850, DNP3.0, and IEC60870-5-104, GE has the ability to connect and integrate your power system equipment with virtually any HMI, SCADA or Energy Management System with the security, reliability and dependability you expect from GE.

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Only by actively soliciting input from wide-ranging sources can we develop alternative solutions that have higher value.

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Priming the mind with a wide range of experiences and input also helps.

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We are using that input to shape an ongoing government -wide assessment of how the United States government supports nonprofits through capacity building and technical assistance, with the intent to streamline efforts and make them more impactful for the needs of local organizations.

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Jeff and Lisa will draw on the resources of OMB to launch and run this effort, and they will be reaching out to the business community, experts, those who run these programs, members of Congress, and a wide range of stakeholders and citizens to get their input about how government can be reformed to best work for them.

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He said that Deming was more focused on the statistical analysis of quality whereas he, Juran, was more concerned about the human input, teaching people how to introduce what he called CWQM (company-wide quality management).

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