Sentences with phrase «keep a lid on costs»

However, Edward Hertzman, a sourcing agent based in New York who also publishes trade magazine Sourcing Journal, said pressure from U.S. retailers to keep a lid on costs continues to foster unsafe conditions.

And we've taken measures in the 2015 budget and in the 2016 budget that we'll be proposing next week to keep a lid on costs to control our costs, to find opportunities to cut so that we can get on with moving towards a sustainable budget.»

This will keep a lid on costs and act as an incentive for the contractor to move the job along faster.

If your professor isn't using a free textbook, Turgeon says you can still keep a lid on costs by using websites such as bigwords.com, abebooks.com and bookfinder.com to hunt down secondhand copies.

In other words, these skeptics will say: yeah, a frugal management team is great, but if keeping a lid on costs is the only advantage one company has over competitors, soon those competitors will cut their costs also and erase this edge.

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Aside from these tips, there are a host of other things you can do to keep a lid on costs — for more ideas visit our money - saving tips page.

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But investors will task Delta to keep a lid on increasing costs, which the airline expects to rise 2 to 4 percent this quarter, not including fuel.

These plans are becoming increasingly popular among employers as they try to keep a lid on medical costs.

While workers may get paid more than they would have if their hourly wages rose, the lump - sum payments keep a lid on fixed costs for Ford.

Home Depot Inc reported a 9.3 percent rise in quarterly profit and boosted its full - year earnings forecast as it kept a tight lid on costs, while benefiting from a strong U.S. housing market.

Of course freight costs keeps a lid on the overwhelming possibilities of Asia because it makes the product more expensive than it is here.

In Mike's view, successive Federal Governments wanted «to keep the lid on industrial unrest by keeping the gap between a worker's income and the cost of living apart».

One board spokesperson said: «Boards are desperate to keep a lid on fees, but there comes a point at which they just won't be able to keep taking the extra costs.»

Keeping it simple is critical; it will help you track where your money is going and it will keep a lid on fees, service charges and other costs.

The uncertainty associated with this overhang combined with the bad taste left by the destruction of value in 2008/9 should keep a lid on the share price for the near future; I don't anticipate the share price returning to levels of early 2011 ($ 60) until the Treasury is able to do another secondary offering, and that won't happen until the price returns above its cost basis of around $ 27 / share.

The cash advance fee is 3 percent, and a $ 200 cap on advances keeps a lid on cardholder costs.

Even before the recent economic turmoil, there was growing grumpiness in Europe, and on Capitol Hill, about the costs of top - down regulation as a means of keeping the lid on greenhouse gases.

I did not find this a complex case from a technical perspective — the challenge was to keep a lid on legal costs with the other side wanting face - to - face meetings to resolve things.