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to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

To drive a bus a mile, it costs us more than a dollar. That's a big increase - that's over a 100-percent increase from 45-cents to a dollar, but some neighboring parishes are going up as high as a dollar and a half.

To cut costs and increase efficiency, a number of companies are now ready to move from autonomous to consolidated networks.

What you're seeing is a combination of negotiating tactic and legislative posturing. The GAO report is almost certainly going to shine unflattering light on both programming costs and the cable operators. There's probably enough blame to go around.

What we have found is, and what we're hearing from the public is, it's a marvelous facility for community events. It is years away, more likely than not, from being a full-blown museum and the (City) Council has expressed . . . concerns about the costs of operating it as a museum.

Here are the choices I don't want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

Have some idea of how much you want to spend when you go into a contract with anyone. Allow approximately 10 to 20 percent of new housing costs for landscaping. Over 20 percent and you probably won't recoup the money invested.

Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.

Has Wall Street paid too much for Amazon? Investors bid the stock up too much in anticipation of it growing faster than it's going to grow. But if Amazon keeps executing and making progress in keeping costs down, it can still work.

Here, the worry of U.S. rates is even greater because it could mean higher borrowing costs abroad and fewer investments to the country in general.

Here's the concern. We're heading into the last quarter of the year, the winter peak demand season. Energy costs for consumers and industries certainly will be high.

Going into Chapter 11 is expensive. The feeling is once they get out of the bankruptcy and get some of the costs of the bankruptcy paid, they'll be able to build up their portfolio and make real money.

Going forward, we will continue to closely control costs while investing in key markets to maximize our potential for profitability.

Gold tends to be inflation related, and there's concern about the specter of rising costs now.

Gold Fields had a stellar second-quarter earnings release Thursday, with a combination of a strong Rand gold price, slightly lower production costs and an increase in production to 1.04 million ounces (from 993,000).

Historically, the U.S.'s big launchers fly seldom enough that their costs are dominated by annual upkeep of facilities and staff, not by the actual cost of each launch. The expensive part is maintaining the launch capability, not actually conducting launches.

HMOs cover more in terms of benefits, their premiums are lower and they require less in the way of out-of-pocket costs for patients.

Hopefully, we can bring down costs a little bit.

There are short-term costs related to rescue efforts but it will probably have more of a psychological than a financial effect.

The packaged food manufacturers' ability to raise and maintain prices to offset rising commodity costs will be a key test of the shifting of power to the retailer. Moreover, escalating costs have negatively impacted the small and midsize food companies more than their larger counterparts due to the smaller companies' higher proportion of fixed-costs and limited economies of scale.

Under current law, the only way an airline can avoid burdensome pension costs is by entering bankruptcy and terminating the plans.

We may be entering a recession here. So if I owned a small business, I would pay very close attention to controlling costs and develop a contingency plan.

We make rules based on money. They make $6 billion, and everything's based on money. We should have freshman ineligibility. But it costs money, so it's not even discussed. Kids should have five years (of eligibility) instead of four.

We have to be competitive. The business is too cutthroat to have our costs out of line.

We have to be careful about the administrative costs of bureaucracy ... if we expect to compete in the global marketplace.

We have to acknowledge that individuals can face transition costs when trade barriers come down,

We made significant strides in turning around the business during 2005. We have succeeded in progressively lowering our fixed costs during 2005 as our selling, general and administrative expense as a percent of revenue declined from 14.5% in the first quarter to 12.1% in the fourth quarter. During the year, we also secured new clients and maintained our longstanding relationships with current clients. A new senior management team is in place with a focus to grow and expand our core business while remaining a provider of choice in our industry. We are encouraged with the progress we have made thus far and we will continue to seek opportunities to improve our results and diversify our revenue base in 2006.

HP's latest earnings are a Valentine to shareholders, and to Mark Hurd and his team. Hurd has done a good job focusing on the basics, getting costs and expenses down and morale up.

Growth will slow slightly for a variety of factors. There's a challenging rate environment, a bit slower economic growth and there could be a return to a more normalized credit environment, with higher credit costs and building of provisions.

There are some who think critical access hospitals receive too good of a deal. There's a struggle to find a balance between what's good for the community and keeping government satisfied that its costs are under control.

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

There are so few costs that we can control that this is a game of inches.

Knowing where people are, where they want to ride the bus and where they want to get off allows us to put the busses out exactly where people want to go and that allows us to keep the fares at the same level that they've been for 10 years despite what we've seen fuel prices and other costs do.

Kimberly-Clark is currently facing a number of global challenges, including commodity cost pressures (natural gas, fiber, energy), higher selling, general and administrative costs and a still difficult playing field in Western Europe.

I wouldn't rush to get rid of either line because of the costs associated with the move. But if GM's share continues to drop and gets down near 21 percent, I see them taking steps to phase out Buick.

Kellogg recognizes the importance of constantly streamlining costs ... That is how it has avoided, and we think will continue to avoid, the margin deterioration that has plagued the industry.

Just last year is the first time that housing costs lost us a few candidates. I think the thing that we'll have to do over time is to pay higher salaries; that's the only way to address it.

Keeping tabs on IT costs is daunting for any organization facing a maze of platforms and systems that traditionally have been tracked separately and manually. CIMS Lab software helps companies take control of their IT costs - a key advantage of IT service management.

Keeping costs down and getting close to the customer makes an awful lot of sense when the revenue environment is flattening.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

It actually makes money for me rather than costs me. It's nice. It covers the cost of traveling.

I think it could embolden other companies if they succeed to cut back on health care costs by passing it off on other employees.

It can mean thousands of dollars in additional costs to American families. And those with higher debts are definitely looking at significant increases. So those families who most need to borrow are the ones that will be most affected.

It can help hospitals reduce health-care costs and allow employees to work more independently.

Italy needs radical reform to cut its unit labor costs and regain competitiveness, but that can be a very painful process.

Italy is an attractive retail market for everyone. If BNP can come in and cut costs and improve profit, it could make the market more competitive.

I think it's a reasonable premium for both entities. This is an industry where it's tough to justify huge premiums just because it's a very high-asset intensive business, there are high fixed costs and there really aren't much in the way of cost savings that you can justify at the field overhead level or at the retail level.

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

It costs us more to provide transportation than what we get back, ... (But the increase in fees) will help us offset that cost.

It costs us a little bit (to bring them in). But it's worth it. The future is, we'll have one or two teams out of state, but we'll never turn our back on the local teams.

It costs too much to retrofit. It's better to build a new hospital with state-of-the-art equipment.

It costs too much to make to begin with, and I don't believe things like that should be mandated.

It costs to much to have them dug up. There's a lot of people said the same thing. If they could afford to have them dug up they would be removed.

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

It costs some retailers as much as 20 percent per item to retag it, get it back on the shelf or rack and try to sell it again.

It costs some retailers as much as 20 percent per item to re-tag it, get it back on the shelf or rack and try to sell it again.

It costs so damn much to distribute a film now. That's the problem. Nobody wants to take that risk. It's very, very frustrating. There's almost no such thing as a little movie.

It costs more to make and it protects your air quality.

It costs more to do business in certain parts of the state.

It costs more than it would to build a well-made water system.

It costs more now to go skiing than to go to Disney World. That's going to drive skier-days down.

It costs me $50 to fill up. I'm cutting back on other things.

It could be the weather. Distribution costs increase with the cost of energy. Fertilizer goes up when energy goes up. There are various reasons for the surge.

It costs me $200 more, and there's already $600 in the pot, and I have two loose-aggressive players in the pot with Q-8 of diamonds, which is the kind of hand that if you hit it, you hit it big or you can get away from it.

It costs everyone more when they have to send their containers back empty,

It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.

It costs a whole lot more to do that, but the results of not doing it for us, from a business perspective, were much higher than the cost of doing it initially. One breach or one failure could cost us all of our partners.

It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.

It costs a lot of money for a company to have a pipe big enough to handle that extra capacity.

It costs a lot of money and effort to do this. Most people would opt for a bridging loan.

It costs almost 400 percent more than it did in December 2001 to fill up a plane.

It costs about twice as much. The farmers can't keep up with the demand.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

It costs about $15,000 to $20,000 a year. But when she's so good at it, what are you going to do?

It costs $5 a bushel to grow and you can only get $3, maybe $3.95 a bushel when you sell it.

It costs $55 to $60 to ship each box.

It costs $55 to $60 to fill this. Normally, you can get around with a half tank. With the prices being so high, you rather settle for a quarter of tank than put in a half tank because it's so expensive.

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

It cost $6,000 to $10,000 a lot to acquire park space in 2002, 2003. Now it costs $90,000 a lot. The parks master plan put the (total) costs at $70 million. That's not even close today. People want their kids to play soccer. There isn't even a playground, not one, north of Pine Island Road. That is an expanding part of the city.

I think the company clearly has had a tough time driving their top-line growth, and I think they are cutting costs now in anticipation of boosting their market share.

I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.

I think the availability of these new products, especially without a doctor's prescription and the costs associated with that, will be a very useful tool for the millions and millions of smokers in the United States who desperately want to give up the habit.

I think that there is a fairly positive outlook. It is really tied to improvement in pork demand domestically, ongoing strength in export markets, and the fact that they have locked in feed costs near term." ()

It is frustrating to hear the fans criticize the manager so close to the World Cup. As players it is hard for us to take. They are entitled to their views because it costs a lot of money to follow the team everywhere.

It is clear that organizations are looking at ways to cut costs and make sure their investments offer immediate value. Virtualization helps them achieve those goals by aggregating the workloads handled by older machines on a bigger machine.

Labor costs were one of the key inflation concerns cited by Chairman (Alan) Greenspan in his latest testimony, ... Our outlook reinforces his concern.

Labor costs are moderating, productivity is rising and pricing indicators are all very subdued.

Land costs are getting high, but are still cheap compared to California, or even Sun Valley, where an acre of land can cost $1 million. But it's still pushing housing prices up.

Lafayette does not have a fiscal crisis. I don't care if it costs a half million dollars,

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

I think all these reports taken together are going to paint an economy that is too hot. Labor costs are rising and that is beginning to lead to some signs of inflation.

I think at the Fed they believe we're getting near full employment. You've got unit labor costs going up. If we get a very strong jobs number, I don't totally rule out a 50-basis point (half of a percentage point) hike in June.

I think it's very likely that these costs will be passed on to consumers.

It gives scant attention to environment and social costs of the kind we saw in the eyes of the displaced families

It goes to show that proper planning, being able to weather the inevitable ups and downs of the business, is vital. Those that do survive bankruptcy addressed their costs and strategic issues in a comprehensive manner. That's how Continental approached its restructuring.

It goes in 10-year cycles. One of the things that's happening now is that radio is in transition. So everything is up for grabs. Also, you have a very slow market out there - labels aren't putting out so many records. And, because they're looking at the costs of promoting records, they're putting out fewer left-field ones.

It had to happen. It's the sign of the times. It's the victim of the inexorable march of costs vs. benefits.

I think this serves as a wakeup call to Wisconsin policymakers and consumers, ... We have an emergency situation with regard to health care costs and we need to act quickly.

I think ticket prices are too high, but it costs so bloody much money to get anything together anymore.