Sentences with phrase «inflated cost base»

Saga Furs is now restructuring what had become a progressively inflated cost base, but more aggressive cuts are obviously needed... otherwise, the company's v dependent on the supply - demand situation correcting itself (there do appear to be signs of that, Chinese farms seem to have the ability to turn on & off production at will).

And the Law Officers Department will reduce its budget by a total of 24 per cent over the four years, with the Crown Prosecution Service «greatly reducing its inflated cost base», Mr Osborne said.

Not exact matches

Still, it's worth thinking about the impact of inflated costs on the base.

The retail value (using market value and insurance based rates) is highly inflated and driving up the cost of health care.

I went back and forth between HP and PetPlan for a while, but here's why I went with HP: premium increases are based on inflating veterinary costs rather than PetPlan's «based on the age of your dog and average veterinary costs for your type of pet.»

It wasn't too long ago that the producer - director told the world he once tried to float an animated series based on the franchise, but its inflated cost got in the way.

A March 7 memorandum from agency experts to the White House team recommended that the carbon dioxide pledge be kept, saying the Energy Department study «was based on assumptions that do not apply» to Mr. Bush's plan and «inflates the costs of achieving carbon dioxide reductions.»

Actually, I was pointing out that there ARE benefits in cheap energy, and fossil based energy, when it is not artificially inflated in cost, has certainly been cheap.

In any event, even using such inflated claims of «subsidies», on a joule / subsidy - cost basis, fossil fuels beat the snot out of renewables.

Energy analyst Roger Bezdek estimates that the benefits of using carbon - based fuels outweigh any hypothesized «social costs of carbon» by orders of magnitude: 50 - to - 1 (using the inflated SCC of $ 36 / ton of CO2 concocted by EPA and other federal agencies in 2013)-- and 500 - to - 1 (using the equally arbitrary $ 22 / ton estimate that they cooked up in 2010).

I suspect that much of the increased patent litigation costs come from companies that are bringing questionable cases based upon inflated damages theories or refusing to settle infringement cases against them despite the fact that the facts do not support their case.

When this is combined with an ownership model and media culture that gives a distorting emphasis to profits per partner, the total cost - base of the law firm can be significantly inflated beyond sensible levels of cost - efficiency and market sustainability.

Coin Center research director Peter Van Valkenburgh added that US - based startups are also subject to state regulations that multiply the duplication of license requirements dozens of times over and inflate costs.