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We're in the same circumstance as customers where we purchase the natural gas on the commodity market and then supply that to customers at the same cost that MidAmerican purchases where there is no markup.

We're just not seeing the demand pickup we'd like to see, and we hit a wall on some of the cost savings we were driving for.

Yep. And I'm sorry for that. It's cost me lots of stuff. At the end of the day, it's cost me probably - a chance to captain Australia.

Years ago it was a really good way of making a living, and we're finally trying to correct that as an industry to get the cost back up (for wages).

Working together will allow us to increase our market share, while more efficiently sharing the costs of marketing and distribution. If specialty producers who are not currently members of SDSPA want to be included in this effort, now is an excellent time to join the association.

Working families across America are struggling with the rising cost of health care. Wal-Mart is providing solutions.

With the market deficit slowly being filled by the big three producers at increasing unit capital cost - greenfield projects are likely to be much harder to justify, highlighting one motivation in the strategic advantage of bringing forward these expansions.

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

With the high cost of fuel for our race teams and fans, we felt it was best to make the call early as opposed to waiting until later in the day. We feel bad because we were expecting a great field of cars and a large crowd, but we wanted save as much expense for people as we could.

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.