Sentences with phrase «made huge cost»

The makers of wind turbines have made huge cost reductions in recent decades with relatively small tweaks to an otherwise familiar system.

Platform Dating, the privately owned host of ooOo and saucydates.com, has managed to make huge cost reductions in a major back - end rework.

Not exact matches

In every case a huge amount of fixed costs up front is overwhelmed by the ongoing ability to make money at scale; to put it another way, tech companies combine fixed costs with marginal revenue opportunities, such that they make more money on additional customers without any corresponding rise in costs.

And given the high cost of college and the huge gaps in achievement between those who make the most of their time as undergrads and those who flounder, the stakes for getting it right are pretty high.

In other words, consumers» rather modest gains have been far surpassed by the profits reaped by corporations making stuff in China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goods.

It'll cost you an extra $ 200 on top of the laptop's $ 1,300 - $ 1,500 price tag, but it will make a huge difference.

In the case of huge industries such as retail, healthcare, and education that maintenance starts to not only slow down the industry and innovation but it also increases costs, makes the customer experience more frustrating, and ultimately distances the seller from the buyer.

Over the life of a project, these cost increases can make a huge difference to the project owners.

Her company, Embrace Innovations, makes low - cost baby incubators for use in the developing world, she explains in the post, and the emotional struggles of getting to know seriously ill infants, many of whom sadly didn't make it, and their families was taking a huge toll on her.

Fortunately, two factors make it easy for small businesses to serve specialty markets with less risk: minimal startup / operating costs and quick access to a huge market of hungry customers via the internet.

She made some huge saves in the U.S.'s 1 - 0 group - stage victory against France, but Solo's howler against Colombia cost the U.S. two points in a 2 - 2 tie.

Kocher speculates that Amazon could reduce costs by accepting lower margins than pharmacy benefits managers — intermediaries that now make huge profits through sales of generic drugs in particular.

The program made huge inroads into schools because it often cost school districts nothing and came with a uniformed police officer as an instructor.

A model carbon - capture plant being built in Mississippi has encountered repeated delays and huge cost overruns that will make it one of the most expensive power plants ever built.

To make matters worse, there was a huge opportunity cost of having capital allocated away from U.S. equities.

RCP seems to have made his comparisons without any reflection on the huge costs of Mike Harris's disinvestment in the Ontario economy, without any reflection on the need for stimulus funding, and without any consideration of the level of services and government investments required for good government in Ontario.

The on - again, off - again deal has been in the works for years without having made progress, but the realities of needing to address the huge costs of upgrading to new 5G network standards poses a substantial competitive obstacle that could make a combination more rewarding.

Fortunately, interest rates rarely make sudden, huge leaps that would explode the cost of your home.

There is a huge opportunity to make these payments quicker and more cost - efficient,» said Emi Yoshikawa, director of joint venture partnerships at Ripple.

And that huge discount, which translates into a high cost of capital and makes acquisitions difficult, has emerged relatively recently.

Middlebury's biomass gasification plant is the product of an administration comfortable with multi-million-dollar projects, made possible by a sizeable and wealthy circle of alumni, a massive endowment, huge tuition costs, and subsidies from our colossal nation - state.

Making things explicit incurred huge costs, to be sure, including much sectarian strife and even religious wars, but believers assumed it was important to know specifically what was right and what was wrong.

Whether it's a package that has your favorite baseball team or a local high school, customization is huge, and it's making the supply base figure out a way to offer lower quantity items [at a] cost - effective point.»

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Drop cloths from your local hardware store are an excellent way to get a huge bunch of fabric for cheap - this one cost me $ 17, and I could probably make 15 more tote bags out of it.

Mustafi also made a huge mistake costing us the second goal.

Rather than terminating managers and recruiting new ones with huge cost, they are happy to keep the one that can make them save a lot of money.

The most expensive signing Middlesbrough made last season, he cost the club a whopping 12 million pounds, which is a huge fee for such a player at such a club.

«It may only cost supporters a pound a week but that money can make a huge difference and help us to deliver courses, classes and workshops that genuinely benefit some people locally who could use our help.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Just remember, streaming costs bandwidth and you want to make sure you have enough on your phone or home's Internet connection before getting zapped with a huge bill for going over your allotted bandwidth.

Most of these ads are relatively low - cost and bought in large numbers, since mass sites have huge inventory and make their money off of volume.

«Huge profits will be made by arms companies, but the costs are borne by the UK taxpayer, and millions of people whose lives are blighted by the arms trade.»

It will cost businesses — both big and small — absolutely nothing, but it will make a huge beneficial difference throughout the state for working families.

Speaking at the Conservative party conference a fortnight ago, Hunt described the costs as unaffordable and indicated the health department would need to make savings from «the huge amount of inefficiency in the system» to foot the bill at least in part.

I haven't done the maths but surely this huge increase (albeit possibly temporary) in the number of Peers will increase the cost of Government to such an extent that Cameron's much publicised 5 % ministerial pay cut and other proposed measures to «streamline» Government will be made redundant?

He said the statement by Monitor, that leading hospitals must make savings of up to 7 per cent a year, proved that the reorganisation of the NHS and cost - cutting plans are putting the system under «huge strain».

That's a huge cost; companies need customers to sign up to make a project financially feasible.

The gradual reduction in cost made a huge increase in the amount of data possible, allowing us to read the genomes of tens of thousands of organisms.

Of course, making algae oil in any quantity remains a huge challenge, from perfecting the growth of the organism and its oil production to extracting the product in a cost - effective manner.

Over here in the UK we've been using GPS to guide our delivery vans to more effective routes and it's made a huge difference o our fuel costs.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

«Our research makes it possible to produce fermentable sugars from this huge amount of waste in a cost - effective way to increase its commercial value,» says one of the lead researchers, Jin Chuan Wu, from the A * STAR Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences.

Right now scientists understand far too little about Earth's inner motions to make reliable earthquake forecasts, and the cost of an unreliable forecast could be huge: Millions of dollars of business would be lost by shutting down San Francisco for a week awaiting a temblor that might never arrive.

But whereas a power plant is huge and costs hundreds of millions of dollars to build, SOFCs can be made to be any size.

First conceived in 1912, lithium - metal batteries have the potential for huge amounts of energy storage at a low cost, but they suffer from a fatal flaw: dendrites — sharp needles made of clumps of lithium atoms that can cause batteries to heat up and occasionally short - circuit and catch fire.

In order to grow our company without compromising quality, we have to pass some of that cost to our customers, or we will end up as a failed business with a huge heart that did not make meaningful change for people and the planet.

The SAD is hugely profitable for the big food companies — cheap sugars, flours, oils and meat turned into a myriad of products that cost only pennies to make and sell at huge profits.

It is worth the slight extra cost if you can afford to do so and the taste makes a huge difference.

You can make a huge batch for a fraction of the cost..