Sentences with phrase «other cost cutting»

The plan encompasses salaries and benefits; programs and facilities; use of the capital spending fund, bequests income, and the League's endowment fund; as well as fundraising, and other cost cutting measures.

Other cost cutting sources, such as packing a lunch instead of paying to eat out, are also available online.

The Springfield School Committee approved the new budget that avoids teacher layoffs and counts on energy savings and other cost cutting, according to Superintendent of Schools Dan Warwick.

The additional funding Richmond City Council is expected to allocate for city schools won't be enough to keep school closures and other cost cutting measures off the table, said RPS Superintendent Dana Bedden Wednesday morning.

More recently, in many districts teachers» salaries have been reduced as a result of unpaid furlough days, cuts in benefits, and other cost cutting moves.

«In respect to expenses, I have advocated and worked hard since January 1, 2016 that we must cut overtime, consolidate and / or share services, have greater financial accountability and transparency, and worked to find new revenues and other cost cutting measures in the city,» Mantello said.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Trump's latest budget — if enacted — would make deep cuts to smart grid, power - grid operations, and other research that could improve the reliability, efficiency, and cost of US energy infrastructure.

As would other key players, including former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond (author of a detailed report outlining cost - cutting opportunities in Ontario) and former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who has spent decades uncovering wasteful spending in the public service.

An accomplishment resume, on the other hand, emphasizes accomplishments and results, such as «Cut costs by 50 percent» or «Met quota every month.»

Pessina and KKR cut jobs and costs but also invested, sprucing up the stores and differentiating them with an increased emphasis on beauty and other higher - margin products.

Citi, like other big banks, has been cutting costs to boost profit as low interest rates and new regulations crimp revenue growth.

Most revenue from Apple's services business comes from the App Store, where it can take a cut of any app sales, whether through upfront purchases or micropayments, without bearing costs other than curating and maintaining the App Store's virtual shelves.

It feeds all of the data it collects back into algorithms that help detect its customers» IT problems early, identify where costs can be cut and share other insights.

I don't think now that they have a majority they're going to all of a sudden rock the boat with Conservative principles, which could mean any number of things in terms of cost - cutting and other policies.

Like almost every other traditional media entity, it is trying to grow one side of its business — the digital side — while simultaneously cutting costs and managing the decline of the print side, which continues to generate the bulk of the revenue and profits.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Along with customers, the other likely losers in the merger would be Norfolk Southern employees, who would be squarely in Harrison's cost - cutting crosshairs.

First we'll take a look at some ways to keep your energy costs in line, followed by some other ways to cut corners and save.

For others it's cutting coupons or figuring out where the absolute lowest cost items are in neighborhood stores.

Stephen Smith, a marketing executive Broader hired at Sweetbay who followed her to other companies, says the chain's culture had been «quite abusive,» with a rapid succession of leaders and vicious cost cutting.

The AT&T - Time Warner deal announcement touts «a combination unlike any other,» «a perfect match of two companies with complementary strengths,» and a billion dollars a year worth of «synergies,» which is how business people talk about cost - cutting.

The test is one of several blockchain experiments State Street and other financial institutions have been working on over the past year as Wall Street grows increasingly hopeful that the technology, first developed to run cryptocurrency bitcoin, can help them increase efficiency and cut costs.

JPMorgan, Amazon and Berkshire announced in January that they would form a venture that would use technology to try to cut healthcare costs for their employees, and potentially open the venture to other companies, but have provided few details since.

Other cost pressures came from overblown expenses, expenses that, once Nikollaj opened the books, his employees were quick to find — and cut.

Palin and other critics decided to label this fairly innocuous cost - cutting mechanism as «care rationing» that would let government bureaucrats decide whether or not granny gets to live (again, this is not actually true).

Didi Kuaidi was created in February when competing apps Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache merged to cut the costs of competing with each other — and more importantly, with Uber.

Major drivers of the increase over that last decade according to the PEW Center were: recession related revenue declines (28 %), defence spending (13 %; cost of the wars on terror alone were over $ 2.4 trillion to the end of 2009 according to Homeland Security Research), Bush tax cuts (13 %), increases in net interest (11 %), and other non-defence spending (10 %).

Other non-performers include making the Bush tax cuts permanent (29 cents in added GDP for every dollar it costs the government) and cutting the corporate tax rate (Republican front - runner Sen. John McCain's favorite, but worth only 30 cents).

If your business is internet - based or primarily a computer - based enterprise such as software design, web content writing or other creative industries, a simple way of cutting down on your office space costs is to let your co-workers telecommute from home.

A third model, expected to cost $ 1,000 or more, that will have a 5.8 - inch OLED screen and other cutting edge features has been dubbed the iPhone 8, iPhone X or iPhone Pro.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

She noted that with the $ 15 minimum wage (a frequent point of comparison in the discussion) Safeway chose to absorb the cost of the minimum wage instead of cutting jobs or passing the costs on to consumers, but that made Seattle Safeway stores» profit margin half as much as stores in other locations.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

He said he's noticed businesses in diverse sectors — health care, construction, financial and nonprofit, among others — transitioning to BYOD to cut IT costs.

It has about 4,800 employees and has been preparing more job cuts and other cost - cutting measures, according to court documents.

Senior management has vowed to cut costs mostly via a reduction in its U.S. workforce and other changes.

Peltz also proposed cutting other «excess» costs, adding debt, adopting a more shareholder - friendly policy for distributing cash from CyclicalCo / CashCo, prioritizing high returns on invested capital for initiatives at GrowthCo, and introducing more shareholder - friendly governance, including tighter alignment between executive compensation and returns to shareholders.

Such a wholesale change would have been unheard - of a few years ago, when Ford and other carmakers were under intense pressure to cut costs and save money.

Similarly, Srivatsa of Blowhorn shared how his firm started off 2016 with just two weeks of capital left in the bank but successfully strove through the year on cash flow, thanks to the core team taking pay cuts and the company cutting down on other costs without a single employee quitting.

Other topics likely to come up include Berkshire's decision to team up with Amazon and JPMorgan Chase to form a new company to lower health care costs; Berkshire's growing pile of cash and the environment for deal making; and the tax cuts passed late last year, which provided Berkshire with a hefty windfall.

However, there is no evidence that broad - based tax cuts can pay for themselves completely, and economic studies from across the spectrum have found that deficit - financed tax cuts only pay for a fraction of their cost (including from the Congressional Budget Office and other economists).

They're acquiring startups focused on organic and other fare, investing like venture capitalists, and cutting a variety of costs to free up money they can spend in areas such as product innovation and advertising.

Jana wasn't satisfied, and in July, Qualcomm announced it would shed nearly 5,000 workers, among other moves to cut costs.

This creates budgetary pressure and leads to a choice of raising revenue to fund these costs, cutting other government programs, or cutting benefits.

Despite the cost of monthly student loan payments, many are spending just as much as their less - indebted counterparts, choosing instead to cut back on savings in favor of other expenses.

Besides the national sales initiative, other elements of the plan — digital development, new revenue sources, acquisitions, even cost cutting — turn on centralizing operations to a much greater degree than they had been already at Tribune.

However, economic studies from across the spectrum have found that deficit - financed tax cuts only pay for a fraction of their cost (including from the Congressional Budget Office and other economists).

But what Sequoia married itself to was an offshore drug company that borrowed heavily to buy other drug companies, cut costs and research, then raised prices on many older drugs to astronomical heights.

On the other hand, Best Buy did report its best quarterly comps since 2009 and is no longer relying on cost cutting initiatives to support its business while simultaneously seeing strong growth in many categories.