Sentences with phrase «biggest cost in»

By far the biggest cost in publishing, but a good book editor will help a lot (although, they probably won't fix the story, which may be the main problem).

«Staffing is always your biggest cost in a school.

«The biggest cost in an underground lab is the hole,» says Matteo Volpi at the University of Melbourne.

«Energy is a big cost in steel,» said Kavanagh.

One of the biggest costs in litigation today is e-discovery and document review.

Given that electricity is one of the biggest costs in a mine, under the table agreements like this are advantageous.

Not exact matches

Nearly two - thirds of payer executives cited cost as the biggest barrier in the way of a product overhaul.

He slashed listing fees, saving home sellers big money in commission costs.

While it looks like a big beat, this result is primarily due to cost cuts and not massive growth in its businesses.

One way to reduce costs, he recommends, is to reduce «dead space» in shipping boxes that might be too big for the item, which drives up prices.

A spike in fuel prices, generally airlines» biggest cost after employee pay, is eating away at carriers» profits.

Even if the big public - sector research projects succeed in sparking up a fusion fire first, the cost of actually building power plants would be prohibitive.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

In this edited excerpt, the authors discuss a few benefits that may not cost much but have a big impact on employee satisfaction.

Probiotics — pricey bacterial supplements that can cost upward of $ 1 per pill but are found naturally in smaller amounts in yogurt and other fermented foods — have become a big business with a market of roughly $ 23.1 billion in 2012.

Conor Muldoon of Causeway Capital Management says the bank is benefiting from a cost - cutting campaign that involved closing branches and making big tech investments — one that's helping it expand more profitably in new markets.

Non-Prime users spend a little more than half that ($ 700), but they may be picking up the tab elsewhere, like in the cost of gas to shop in - store, the higher price of items from big - box retailers, and shipping from other stores.

A few years later, all six of the country's big banks, along with Desjardins, the Canada Pension Plan and Canaccord, joined together to launch Alpha, in hopes of lowering trading costs and bringing more competition to the market.

Here's What It Cost to Become the Biggest Oil Refinery in the U.S.

The PBMs» biggest profits no longer lie in maximizing rebates on brand - name drugs or shifting patients to higher - cost medication.

But rising labor costs and slow growth in overseas demand left Pan with no choice but to sell the business to a bigger textile manufacturer with a domestic focus, in the hope that new capital can keep it afloat.

As jet fuel costs rise in accordance with oil prices — and already fuel has overtaken labour as airlines» biggest expense — air travel could risk becoming unaffordable for the average person.

Here, we've highlighted the cost of living for a single person (one adult, zero children) in the ten best big cities for young professionals, determined in a report by the American Institute for Economic Research.

The concept of using online communities to solve problems for big companies is intriguing — the wisdom of crowds has been tapped at a low cost in a variety of industries and has proved surprisingly accurate.

In this context, «hard» business applications are such things as manufacturing and financial management software from companies like SAP and Oracle, and the databases that underly those applications as well as transactional systems that — should they fail — cost companies big money.

Housing is a big part of the cost of living in Washington, D.C. but it's not the only factor.

As for costs, Pizza Hut spokesperson Doug Terfehr says, «While I can't share specifics of the investment, I can tell you this is biggest thing we've done in a very long time.»

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

Southwest Airlines ($ 2.3 billion in revenues, 15,833 employees nationwide, headquartered in Dallas) shares more information than most big companies: chairman Herb Kelleher's quarterly letters to employees describe the big picture, and weekly updates give detailed reports on costs.

As a patient, finding a doctor in - network on your health plan can make a big difference when it comes to out of pocket costs.

While the most substantial way to increase your campaign's ROI still involves increasing your account's overall average keyword quality score (as quality score and cost per lead metrics are directly correlated), your level of success in AdWords is heavily reliant on whether or not you have first acquired all the proper ingredients to create an overall bigger pie for yourself.

«Labour costs are a big factor in day - to - day profits,» he says.

It looks like next year might be a good time to cut the carbohydrates as a drought - fueled jump in wheat costs will make bakery goods the food items with the biggest price gains for U.S. consumers.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey explain.

According to Ed Sollbach, a Desjardins Securities strategist, the buy - rent ratio for the four biggest Canadian cities is currently above 2 — meaning it costs twice as much to buy as to rent the average home — and 3.1 in Vancouver.

They seem more interested in avoiding mandates and shifting the costs to employees than trying to find a solution to the bigger problem.

While the trip's big costs are out of the way — I bought my flight in October and I'll be staying with a friend — stretching $ 60 over the four days I'm there could be tricky.

That kind of trading up was easier for customers in 2002, when the Dollar Menu launched and a Big Mac cost $ 2.49.

Advances in user interfaces, automation and cognitive computing are removing the barriers to adoption of big - data tools and they are now at costs that small businesses can afford.

Given the cost factors, analysts expect Android to continue leading the big smartphone growth in emerging markets.

Adding Norwegian's short - haul operations in Europe to Vueling would create a budget carrier better placed to compete against the continent's two biggest low - cost airlines Ryanair and easyJet.

Sundance Resources boss Giulio Casello has taken a big pay cut as the company seeks to cut costs, with the Perth - based explorer also locking in a $ 1.3 million investment to assist in the search for a partner for its Mbalam Nabeba iron ore project in Africa.

It got its first big boost from a 2012 YouTube video, in which Dubin stars, that cost $ 4,500 and took a single day to shoot.

He says in the past few years, payroll costs have become the biggest expense for his business, surpassing the costs of food.

Those bubbles aren't a reason to raise borrowing costs; you don't hurt the prospects of the broader economy to contain a mania in a couple of big cities.

If your home would rent for $ 4,000 a month, the implicit tax break you get is a lot bigger than someone living in a home that would cost $ 1,000 a month.

But some were also concerned it could hinder Europe's biggest carmaker in its efforts to cut costs and improve efficiency, as it embarks on a huge investment in electric vehicles and self - driving technology.

World stocks were in their biggest two - day dive in six months on Tuesday and commodities were also jammed in reverse, as rising U.S. borrowing costs cooled financial markets» euphoric start to the year.

With this deal, the big synergies are not in cost savings, which are over $ 9 million.

Bob Johnson, director of photovoltaics at research firm Strategies Unlimited, in Mountain View, Calif., says PV cells may drop below their current price by 30 % or more by 2010, even without big technological advances, making the cost of solar energy competitive with conventional sources.