Sentences with phrase «reining in costs of»

He isn't buying it.Jason Kenney isn't buying the idea reining in the costs of the Alberta government means slashing and burning and services savaged with masses of nurses...

Jason Kenney isn't buying the idea reining in the costs of the Alberta government means slashing and burning and services savaged with masses of nurses and teachers on the bread lines.

Health Care: The Best Medicine (p 50 & p 12) There are large amounts of useful patient data stored in health records that could be analyzed to help physicians better assess treatment options while reining in the cost of health care in the U.S..

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Conversely, reining in non-labor costs is one of the reasons JPMorgan is downgrading JetBlue from «overweight» to «neutral»

Pharmaceutical companies are concerned about an onslaught of legislative proposals percolating in state houses around the country, among them: changes to Medicaid programs to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs, intellectual property issues, and the fight over biosimilars.

Now, thanks to its planned merger with H.J. Heinz, led by a 3G Capital and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - B), Kraft stands a better chance of taking on overseas markets, getting the clout it needs to rein in rising commodity costs and attain more efficient operations that will lower its expenses.

Her comments came shortly after the Senate Committee on Aging asked Mylan to provide information on the reasoning behind what it called the «drastic» price increase of EpiPen, and the American Medical Association «urge [d]» Mylan to «rein in these exorbitant costs.»

The actual work of boosting healthcare quality and reining in costs gets done in medical offices, not corporate cubicles.

The departure follows several difficult years for the UK hedge fund company and comes amid plans to rein in costs and reverse an exodus of investors from its funds.

The comments, made at a conference organized by a leading U.S. health insurer lobbying group, stoked speculation over what steps the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may take to rein in lofty prescription drug costs.

Broadly the picture seems to be that over the past thirty years, the results of efforts to rein in administration costs in UK central government were at best modest as long as governments stuck to a fairly consistent definition of what counted as administration costs.

One thing is that it takes more to cut running costs in government than cutting numbers of civil servants — something that seems to have escaped the Thatcher government in the 1980s but has been clearly recognized in the current government's much more determined attempts to rein in consultancy and IT contract costs.

First off, he wasn't overtly confrontational with the Cuomo administration, going out of his way to praise the governor's efforts to rein in costs and acknowledging he «inherited a miserable budget situation.»

Gov. Paterson has moved to rein in the spiraling costs of pensions.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, a government watchdog, said the pension system was already under financial strain, so reining in the costs by thwarting abuses should be a priority in Albany.

The first fruit of a collaboration between libraries and scientific publishers to rein in soaring journal costs will be a journal tentatively called Organic Chemistry Letters, the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced today.

«The economic costs of not reining in greenhouse gas emissions are more serious than we previously estimated,» ADB chief economist Shang - Jin Wei said in a statement.

A more reasonable middle ground between reining in increasing prescription drug costs and preserving freedom of speech would be to forbid mentioning specific products that are not easy to purchase legally in «educational» advertising.

Cost cutting has been the name of the game for Osamu Motojima since he took the reins of the ITER fusion reactor project, the world's most expensive science experiment, in July.

John Thompson took the reins of the U.S. Census Bureau in August 2013 with orders from Congress to dramatically lower the projected cost of the 2020 decennial census.

Reining in manufacturing costs of fuel cell vehicles is the first major issue the automakers are addressing.

Experts say the tool, described in the June Nature Biotechnology, could help rein in the skyrocketing costs of vaccine development.

, who called for the independent review in June to identify the root causes of cost growth and schedule delays on the JWST, expressed dismay over the panel's findings and warned NASA that it can not let the telescope's scientific potential override the need to rein in costs.

Leaders of the 63,000 - student district were looking to rein in costs on an expensive busing program, and respond to some parents» wishes for more neighborhood schools, when they convened a task force of parents,...

At last schools can personalize learning, extend access, and rein in costs in ways that seemed impossible before the arrival of this innovation.

Despite issuing official sketches of the new car, details continue to remain scarce, but in a move aimed at reining in development costs and providing crucial economies of scale, Audi is thought to have held firm to its original plans to base the road - going production version of the well - received Quattro concept on a modified version of the MLB platform that underpins the A5.

The most crucial safety feature, namely the ventilated all - disc braking system, is of course more than up to the task of reining in this most extreme of Audi Avants, and an upgrade to ultra high performance ceramic brakes with even more exceptional performance and fade resistance is also available at extra cost.

A decision by China's central bank to rein in reserve funds held by payment firms could cost the industry upwards of $ 689 million a year, spur consolidation and alter the way Asia's biggest tech firms move money.

The majority of the time, you'll be attending classes at school: after that, you are given free rein to run around town, purchase items and complete various NPC quests, but certain actions will «cost» one day's time, immediately warping you back to your house in the evening.

What, if anything, would it do to try to rein in the growth of health care costs?

The benefits of the Clean Air Act have typically far outweighed the costs: According to EPA estimates, a proposal to rein in smog - causing sulfur - dioxide and nitrogenoxide would cost polluters $ 2.8 billion per year by 2014, while providing as much as $ 290 billion in health benefits to the broader public (including 21,000 fewer cases of bronchitis, 23,000 fewer heart attacks, and up to 36,000 lives saved).

The EPA spoke of the health and other benefits of reining in climate change through reduced C02 emissions, while utility industry officials decry a «war on coal» that will cost jobs and raise electric rates.

The Obama administration knew that reining in carbon pollution from power plants would be easiest and most cost effective if states and companies could use a broad suite of tools, including adopting energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Adopting a cap - and - trade or carbon tax system to rein in surging levels of emissions will be necessary to allow businesses to factor in the cost of carbon into their operations.

Here's what the President said in his State of the Union address: «I'm willing to look at other ideas to bring down costs, including one that Republicans suggested last year: medical malpractice reform to rein in frivolous lawsuits.»

Barry bemoaned the recent trend of laying off lawyers and reining in costs as firms struggle to deal with dips in transaction work.

General counsels of large companies and financial institutions are facing significant internal demands to rein in legal costs.

E-discovery can easily cost millions of dollars if you don't rein things in.»

The effect, one hopes, is to rein in the kind of unlimited electronic document discovery that causes litigation and arbitration costs to soar, but the wording still leaves the door open to pre-hearing wrangling over the scope of document production.

Checks should be put in place to rein in superstars in danger of believing their own PR (even at the cost of reduced income in the short term) and to nurture the self - esteem of those at the other end of the spectrum.

To rein in costs and abuse of insurance policies by hospitals, four public sector general insurers — National Insurance, New India Assurance, United India and Oriental Insurance Company — have prescribed rates for a number of surgeries.

• Cultivated an extraordinary level of company loyalty, achieving a 10 + year tenure amongst 70 % of employees • Introduced a safety system that monitors equipment dynamically to prevent damage to utility lines • Decreased maintenance costs by 55 % by employing preventative maintenance activities on monthly basis • Reined in a colossal project that required complete replacement of landscaping in 7 parks across the city in the limited time of 3 months • Reduced equipment repairing and maintenance cost by 50 % by setting up an in - house maintenance unit • Filled 85 potholes within the city in record time of 2 weeks, following election preparations • Trained 52 newly hired maintenance workers in routine light and heavy labor work, pertinent to construction work and maintenance • Utilized extensive knowledge and skill of maintenance logistics to significantly improve work team's efficiency by 49 %

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Installed vinyl flooring over a large expanse of a commercial building within the record time of weeks, in time for its opening date • Reduced materials transport cost by 67 % by suggesting buying basic materials in bulk from a local vendor • Reined in a massive floor installation project by assisting in project planning and making sound recommendations • Trained 52 apprentices to work as flooring installers over a period of 4 years

ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN HOSPITALITY ARENA • Reined during a particularly tricky situation involving confused reservations, by ensuring customer satisfaction for both parties • Recommended addition of health food into the menu, resulting in an increased customer base • Reduced supplies cost by 50 % by recommending bringing onboard a local supplier • Held 5 workshops of food safety and hygiene as part of a food preparation training progrIN HOSPITALITY ARENA • Reined during a particularly tricky situation involving confused reservations, by ensuring customer satisfaction for both parties • Recommended addition of health food into the menu, resulting in an increased customer base • Reduced supplies cost by 50 % by recommending bringing onboard a local supplier • Held 5 workshops of food safety and hygiene as part of a food preparation training progrin an increased customer base • Reduced supplies cost by 50 % by recommending bringing onboard a local supplier • Held 5 workshops of food safety and hygiene as part of a food preparation training program

ACHIEVEMENTS IN HVAC • Integrated a complex HVAC system into an already constructed commercial building • Created a series of field surveys which reduced system assessment time by 50 % • Reduced per component cost by 60 % by creating liaison with a local pats supplier • Reined in a high performance HVAC project that spanned 13 months and ended up in being rated as the «best designed HVAC system in the state» by the Home Floor magaziIN HVAC • Integrated a complex HVAC system into an already constructed commercial building • Created a series of field surveys which reduced system assessment time by 50 % • Reduced per component cost by 60 % by creating liaison with a local pats supplier • Reined in a high performance HVAC project that spanned 13 months and ended up in being rated as the «best designed HVAC system in the state» by the Home Floor magaziin a high performance HVAC project that spanned 13 months and ended up in being rated as the «best designed HVAC system in the state» by the Home Floor magaziin being rated as the «best designed HVAC system in the state» by the Home Floor magaziin the state» by the Home Floor magazine

Most COOs spend their time ensuring that costs are reined in and that the company's infrastructure will support growth, while sales managers are assessing the competition, CEOs are busy forming strategic forecasts, accountants are closing the books, IT Managers are negotiating with vendors, and CIOs are dealing with the rising costs of technology.