Sentences with phrase «low operating expenditures»

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That's why analysts expect the government to look for operating expenditure cuts — such as cutting remaining fuel subsidies — even as it tries to keep up development spending and target lower - income households, often called the B40, or bottom 40 percent with incomes of less than around 2,500 ringgit a month.

However, the various expenditure reduction exercises over recent years, without major cuts to programs and services, have forced departments to operate «closer to the edge», implying that the lapse at the end of the year will be lower than in previous years.

S&P opined that, in the words of the Canadian Press, «in the next two years there is a one - in - three chance the province will not be able to meet its budget targets of low or no growth in operating expenditures.»

Free cash flow2 for the first quarter was $ 181 million, compared to $ 161 million in the prior - year period, reflecting slightly higher operating cash flows, combined with slightly lower capital expenditures.

«The net effect is a reduction in the upfront expenditure and lower operating costs,» says McGrath.

With the exception of the District of Columbia, which is anomalously low at 61 percent in 2010 — 11, state spending on salary and benefits exceeds 75 percent of total operating expenditures in every state.

Like the Education Next survey, the Friedman survey asked respondents whether they thought public school spending was too high, about right, or too low, after first randomly assigning the respondents into two groups: one that first heard a prompt explaining that the average U.S. public school spends $ 10,658 per pupil (this is average operating expenditure per pupil), while the other group was not given any prompt.

According to the website, some school districts may operate more efficiently, so while expenditures are lower, the quality of education is still high.