Merk said that Germany seems to be thriving lately, as it has been working on cost-cutting lately.
Another helpful step would be to reduce the cost of working, especially the cost of looking after children.
Technology and service providers like Genesi are working to cost effectively address young tech-savvy consumers and businesses in these emerging markets.
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While the company has already started working on cost cutting measures how effective it is in implementing them will only be evident with time.
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Everyone was working at below cost because they believe in the project and its goals.
Things like hidden fees and traps on credit cards and student loans cost working American billions of dollars.
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And that forces you to look at both sides of the profit equation, working on the revenue side and working on the cost side.
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Dell has been focused, diligent, hard working and very cost conscious.
This in turn means that the cost is paid mainly by the middle and working classes, since the cost of health insurance for them is generally at the same cost (or close to it) as it is for CEOs.
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Beyond more-efficient solar cells, they're working to slash the cost of components elsewhere in the solar-module system.
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Economists tell us that this tax hike on working families could actually cost us well over a million jobs.
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Unlike personal computers, controls have a long working life because the cost to replace them and retrain operators and technicians is so steep.
On Monday the David Cameron reiterated the government's intention to introduce changes to help working families cut the cost of childcare.
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Mr Osborne met parents at the Daisy Day Nursery in Llanishen, Cardiff where he highlighted UK government plans to help working families with the cost of childcare.
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Unions suggest that money for the pension system should come from higher taxes or charges on those who are still working, and see cost-cutting in the pension system as an attack on their way of life.
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High uncertainty in credit markets has been caused by the Greek crisis, worries about the Italian and Spanish economies, and concerns about the effects of the debt agreement in the US. This is making it more difficult for smaller manufacturers with weaker balance sheets to acquire cost effective working capital to service orders on their books.
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Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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"Somewhere the next Hyundai is out there, working from a low-cost base, " Liker says.
Mel is notorious for cost consciousness, working hard and being very demanding of those who work for him.
For members of the working poor, the sheer cost of survival may be very close to their total incomes.
The Wall Street Journal earlier this month reported that Apple is working on a lower-cost iPhone that could potentially launch later this year.
And of course, Apple was working on a lower-cost computing device.
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But a partnership among The Nature Conservancy, the University of Georgia and the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District are working to bring down the cost for Flint River farmers by supplementing their contributions with a variety of grants and federal funding sources, including the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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At the same time the company is also working to bring down the incremental cost of touch enabled Ultrabooks.
Already we hear that Apple is working on a new low-cost iPhone.
The state must take real steps to create financial efficiencies at every level of state government and reduce the cost of living for working families.
Those firms are working hard to strip down their cost bases by shedding employees and minimising the risk of trading blow-ups over the next year.
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