Sentences with phrase «cost control efforts»

Reducing extraneous operating expenses through accurate inventory management and stringent cost control efforts.

Qualifications * Leadership / communication skills * Business operations organization * Client account management * Overall business development Core Accomplishments Innovative Product Representative and Operations - Skilled in overall management functions to ensure smooth operations including scheduling, budgeting, resource allocation, and cost control efforts.

Pure hourly rate engagements and a rainmaker culture have stagnated cost control efforts and law firm innovation.

Despite this ratio, the Board's actually boasted about its recent cost control efforts..!

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Bloomberg had read a draft blog post in which SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung explained that the company was letting go of 173 staff, and shutting down its offices in London and San Francisco (leaving only offices in New York City and Berlin) as part of an effort to reduce costs at the company whose losses have been spiralling out of control.

The message needs to be positive -LRB-??? We are looking good, feeling confident in our recovery???) but firm -LRB-??? We must still make every effort to control costs and work smarter???).

Patents and drug costs — The intellectual property chapter of the TPP could prove a minefield for efforts to control drug costs in Canada, which are already the second highest in the world.

Healthcare is another area that stubbornly resists even the most comprehensive efforts to control costs.

Even refusal to eat or toilet train can be efforts at maintaining control at all costs.

The gun control effort, however, cost Cuomo a pile of political capital and his popularity suffered for it in public opinion polls.

The governor told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that there was a «political cost» after he led New York's efforts to adopt new gun control legislation shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre in late 2012.

Cuomo has been clashing with de Blasio for over a year on a wide range of issues including homelessness, higher taxes on the wealthy, pre-K education cost, minimum - wage hikes, and efforts to win Democratic control of the Senate.

The Committee Chair, Rep. Darrell Issa (R - CA), did praise Governor Cuomo for his efforts to bring costs under control.

Last year, the Common Council abolished four departments and transferred a fifth to country control, among other cost - saving measures, in an effort to stave off a double - digit tax increase and better align general fund expenditures with incoming revenue.

As part of the effort to control costs, NIH is also proposing an agency - wide cap of 10 percent on indirect costs.

While an $ 18.1 billion cost of smoking is still quite an economic burden for California to bear, the results of this study show that, overall, the state's tobacco control efforts have yielded positive results.

Although the economic costs for control efforts have not reached the widely - reported $ 4 billion level predicted by government officials in the early 1990s, control costs of $ 120 million have been documented.

In 2010, for example, Southeast Farm Press reported that the cost of weed control efforts on Georgia farms had risen from $ 25 per acre to $ 60 to $ 100 an acre in response to Palmer amaranth invasions.

Under Maryland's ambitious effort to control medical costs, both are supposed to try to improve residents» health outside the hospital and prevent admissions.

And globally, the cost of invasive species» impact and control efforts is an estimated five percent of the world's annual economy.

Our combined efforts will focus on improving community health and providing evidence - based medicine to improve quality and cost controls.

In an effort to provide a cost - effective alternative to constructing traditional brick - and - mortar towers at currently non-towered airports, the FAA is exploring the provision of air traffic control services through the use of remote tower systems.

In an effort to control its development and production costs, the Mark III was offered only as a two - door hardtop derived from the chassis underpinnings of the four door Ford Thunderbird.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Axcelis will continue to fully focus its efforts on tight cash and cost controls and on developing and selling innovative products like our Optima implanters and Integra dry strip tools, both of which have received strong customer reviews.

I'm not going to offer advice other than to say I wish more Canadians would take control of their investments and put the necessary effort into constructing a cost efficient portfolio.

Commercial bank customers are focused on controlling operating costs in an effort to stay competitive.

The Cat Network, Inc. (CN) is a 501 (c) 3, Florida not - for - profit corporation dedicated to humanely reducing cat overpopulation by educating the public about the need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low - cost spay / neuter services for stray, homeless and abandoned cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes; and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public policy.

The clinic is owned and operated by The Cat Network, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 Florida not - for - profit corporation dedicated to humanely reducing cat overpopulation by educating the public about the need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low - cost spay & neuter services for cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes; and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public policy.

Throughout New Jersey, forward thinking town officials are increasingly seeking to develop TNR programs to manage feral cats, and Old Bridge Township would do well to enlist the support of OBARA in its efforts to control feral cats through this humane, effective and cost - effective management program.

To carry out our humane commitment to the animals of Benton County by operating an open - door shelter and caring for homeless animals; providing education and enrichment programs to promote healthy human - animal bonds; offering access to low - cost services to those in need, with an emphasis on population control; developing progressive outreach programs; setting a high standard of animal care and husbandry; supporting opportunities for clinical education; and enhancing our funding resources to continue expanding these efforts.

Saving energy complements efforts to shift toward renewable energy in important ways, such as by reducing energy demand, giving customers control over their consumption and costs, and reducing the investment required to meet the renewable energy goal.

Further, efforts to improve the efficiency of conventional systems employ control strategies that can add considerable cost and complexity to the systems, increase maintenance requirements, and often compromise occupant comfort.

Mørk added that «as part of our commitment to helping the industry transition to a low - carbon energy mix while maintaining safety and reliability of supply, we focus our efforts to develop industry guidelines on grid - scale energy storage to help designers, manufacturers, investors, insurers, and authorities mitigate risks and control costs in energy storage projects».

In the 2000s, we had tremendous growth in emissions, not much in the way of policy efforts to control those emissions, and so when we got to the last IPCC report we were asked by the diplomats to study the feasibility and cost of meeting widely discussed goals, not just 2 degrees — also 1.5 degrees.

The theory of prices versus quantities for pollution control (Weitzman 1974) shows that such uncertainty will invariably lead the policy to under - or overshoot the optimum: imposing a quantitative target will lead to higher or lower marginal abatement costs than expected, while a given tax rate will lead to greater or lesser abatement effort than expected.

Third, experience with efforts to limit SO2 emissions indicates that the cap and trade approach has greatly reduced the costs of implementing control measures.

Even worse, opponents have undermined good efforts: Last November, Oregon voters dealt a potentially lethal blow to Portland's sprawl control when, in a state referendum, they ordered the city to begin to compensate developers who claim the policy costs them potential income.

If you are managing your PPC advertising efforts on your own, you truly control all the costs.

For years these legal departments had been supporting litigation efforts that created a trail of information — information that, if mined correctly, could aid them in controlling their costs.

In our efforts to control escalating claims costs for administrative dismissals (more than $ 10 million in the last four years), LawPRO has circulated repeated warnings and resources about the risk of having a claim dismissed for delay or by reason of abandonment under Rule 48 of the Rules of Civil Procedure.

And where are the results of the Law Society's efforts to control the cost of legal services stated and displayed for the public?

Firms will continue to require less office space to accommodate their personnel and will continue to explore ways of reconfiguring office space (e.g., hoteling, elimination of «partner - size» offices, etc.) in an effort to control costs.

Project management efforts have to work in reducing actual costs, enhancing actual control, and producing actual across - the - board changes in all aspects of the client relationship.

The data — some $ 18 billion in legal invoices — suggests the largest law firms have modified staffing models and reassigned IP litigation work to more junior partners in an effort at cost control.

Formula E currently requires all teams to use the same chassis in order to control costs, keep the playing field level, and focus development efforts on the electric powertrains.

Therefore, you'll need to focus intently on showing margin improvements, describing cost controls, or showing how quickly growth occurred from your efforts, instead of merely referencing your ability to achieve results.

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