As Abernathy's study of automobile manufacturers has shown, an industry can easily become prisoner of its own investments in cost-cutting techniques, reducing its ability to develop new products.

艾伯纳西对汽车制造商的研究表明，一个行业很容易成为自己在削减成本技术上投资的俘虏，从而降低了开发新产品的能力。

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"Their ability to pass the extra cost to consumers is going to depend on the demand," Brown said yesterday in a telephone interview.

“他们将额外成本传导给消费者的能力将会依赖于需求情况，”布朗在昨天的一个电话采访中说。

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“Their ability to pass the extra cost to consumers is going to depend on the demand, ” Brown said yesterday in a telephone interview.

“他们将额外成本传导给消费者的能力将会依赖于需求情况，”布朗在昨天的一个电话采访中说。

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Virginia's decision to secede cost the Union a military commander of great ability.

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However, I can assure you 100% (and I challenge anyone to provide factual data to contrary) that the ACA has significantly impacted the cost and our ability to cover our employees in group heath care insurance.

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Greater production efficiencies and higher production volumes led to lower cost, enabling some ability to lower prices but the ability of the industry to sustain unit growth as well as storage capacity growth to match the needs of content hungry users and protect itself from competing technologies is threatened by the relentless drop in HDD ASPs.

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The current low cost of natural gas in North America translates into the ability for microgrids to provide lower cost energy services than the incumbent utility grid.

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