Sentences with phrase «substantial cost increases»

This after an already substantial cost increase in February of 2008.

I don't know how the real cost of energy has changed over the past one or two centuries, but I understand there was a substantial cost increase in the 1970s.

Not exact matches

In the wake of the financial crisis new banking regulations (such as the Volcker Rule) and increased costs of capital contributed to a substantial decline in dealer inventories.

Otherwise, Portugal risks suffering a substantial increase in financing costs,» he said.

While the most substantial way to increase your campaign's ROI still involves increasing your account's overall average keyword quality score (as quality score and cost per lead metrics are directly correlated), your level of success in AdWords is heavily reliant on whether or not you have first acquired all the proper ingredients to create an overall bigger pie for yourself.

But the increase in health care costs pales in comparison to the substantial increase in deductibles.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More commonly, as the business became more profitable and the owner begins making more money, he will leave wages where they are, but try to find a way to cut down on overhead adn production costs (potentially at a loss of worker salary or through layoffs when outsourcing is utilized), and will pocket the increased profits until the business is positioned well enough to be sold to a larger conglomoration for a substantial payout that NONE of the workers will see a dime of.

Lactic acid giant Galactic is the latest ingredients firm to announced substantial price increases on the back of rocketing energy costs.

I think the theory of it is fine, but I think the practical result is fewer people paying their taxes — some accidentally, some intentionally — and a substantial increase in enforcement costs.

In approving the Nitti subdivision, a planned development of 56 new homes to be built on the site of the former Elmhurst Hospital site on Berteau, Elmhurst city council members also approved substantial increases in impact fees that will add $ 10,100 to the cost of a house in the subdivision and generate $ 470,000 for Elmhurst schools and $ 95,000 for the Park District.

Partnership, if precisely planned and structured, can be a powerful tool not only to keep public company viable but also to address cost and investment challenges, improve efficiency and service quality, increase expertise, attract more rapid and substantial investments in infrastructure and new energy technologies.

Cuomo called the increased costs a «substantial burden» on taxpayers and could risk an increase in property taxes.

The RGB's yearly vote pits advocates pushing for little to no rent increases amid continued economic turmoil against landlords who argue the cost of managing buildings has risen significantly enough to demand substantial rent hikes.

«Subsidised transport arrangements have been altered by the local council, increasing the cost to us by a very substantial amount.»

But in a written statement the DfT said there had been «substantial increases in the cost of buying and operation commercial aircraft» since the idea was first floated.

The state's Restaurant Owners Association, in a statement, says «any substantial raise to wages needs to be phased in over a significant amount of time» in order to give allow restaurants time to prepare for what they say will be a «huge increase in labor costs.»

«It's an across - the - board substantial increase in labor costs in a city where it is already extremely expensive to do business,» said Robert Bookman of the Council N.Y. Nightlife Association.

More substantial increases come from a predicted 10 percent rise in contributions to retirement, totaling $ 15,000, and an almost 15 percent rise in health care costs, or $ 40,000.

«Frontotemporal degeneration is associated with substantial direct and indirect costs, diminished quality of life, and increased caregiver burden,» said James E. Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., lead author, associate dean for clinical research in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and a leading international expert on AD, Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), and FTD.

However, the authors also predicted substantial growth in costs in eastern African countries (such as Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania), increasing from $ 3.

Rising healthcare costs will be caused by a substantial increase in the number of people living with the condition in the coming years, experts project.

Policymakers must weigh these costs against the substantial educational and economic benefits such systems can create for successive cohorts of students, both through avoiding the career - long retention of the lowest - performing teachers and through broad increases in performance in the overall teaching workforce.

Not surprisingly, these enhancements have come at a substantial cost: Combined contributions for teachers and districts increased from 16 to 29 percent of salary over this period.

As a result, the school saw an increase in canteen takings and healthier choices for pupils, as well as making substantial cost savings and reduced administration time.

The plan for increased childhood subsidies sketched in this paper would cost roughly $ 42 billion a year and would provide a substantial subsidy for every child in a family at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

[19] There are also substantial costs to employers related to employee absences and turnover caused by childcare breakdowns that would be reduced with increased childcare subsidies.

It may well be the case that these costs are justified by the achievement gains of having students spend more time in the school, but in the current fiscal environment substantial increases in educational spending are unlikely to be forthcoming.

And all districts will face substantial increases in pension costs for teachers, which will rise an additional $ 3.7 billion collectively over the next four years.

«We believe the Tesla Semi will deliver a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo transport, while increasing safety and making it really fun to operate,» Musk penned in his online opus.

However, at these levels, the Cadillac CT6 starts to lose the cost - effective USP the less expensive models lay claim to, so we'll let you decide if the extra features they offer are worth the substantial price increases.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

House Representative Jim McGovern (D) applauded the College Cost Reduction Act stating that it «provides such substantial increases for the Pell Grant program, initiatives to help control college costs, increased funding for Perkins loans... and restructuring the way in which students repay their loans.»

More importantly, the unseen costs associated with such a strategy, the bid / offer spread for example, often increase management fees which can have a substantial detrimental impact on your overall returns, as shown in the chart on the right3.

These investments can provide large benefits including increased revenues & profits, a larger market share, increased ability to bundle services, and substantial synergies that enable cost cutting.

The capacity constraint meaningfully raised the portfolios» effective Ns, reducing trading costs, but at the cost of substantial increases in volatility.

Walsh warned shareholders and employees of the painful restructuring, cost reduction & rationalisation still to come, and then began systematically ticking each action item off his list: i) After one last kitchen sink loss in 2012 of EUR 116 million (mostly goodwill impairment), One51 actually recorded a net profit in 2013 for the first time in 7 years, ii) free cash flow increased from just EUR 1.1 million in 2011 to 15.4 million in 2013, iii) almost EUR 100 million was raised in two years from the sale of the plastic extrusion business, the disposal of stakes in Island Renewable Energy, Thirdforce, IFG, and (most significantly) Irish Continental Group, in addition to a substantial 2013 capital redemption from NTR, and iv) net debt (exc.

As I've said, if a small but attractive dairy brand is plugged into another company's much larger manufacturing & distribution network, there's v little incremental cost / investment required — therefore, the incremental operating margin to be earned can be pretty substantial (not to talk of the increased revenue potential).

This rapid increase comes with substantial increases in operating costs, management challenges, corporate culture shifts, and maybe overly optimistic growth expectations by management.

In communities where laws have mandated spay / neuter regardless of breed, there has been an increase in shelter intake of animals, not a decrease, and substantial increase in animal control costs.

It would cost the state substantial tax revenue while increasing unemployment by imposing requirements that are bad for pets, bad for pet owners and bad for the state of Illinois.

Valuation: The new AAdvantage award chart goes into effect on March 22, spelling a substantial increase in the cost of many awards, fewer dates available for off - peak travel and the switch to a revenue - based earning system.

Koller says these changes will greatly reduce production costs and will instigate «substantial market increase in the sales base of PlayStation 3.»

In a statement, the school administration said that Cooper «has experienced decades of substantial operating deficits caused by a consistent pattern of cost increases that have exceeded the growth of its revenues.»

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

The successful delivery of this project will provide a route for substantial financial benefits to both the purchasers of wind turbines and manufacturers, through increased blade life and significantly reduced maintenance costs, as well as a reduction in the cost of energy from offshore wind farms.»

In dollar terms, the cost of building wind farms has increased in the last few years, at least partly due to substantial increases in the price of steel.

-- The term «carbon leakage» means any substantial increase (as determined by the Administrator) in greenhouse gas emissions by industrial entities located in other countries if such increase is caused by an incremental cost of production increase in the United States resulting from the implementation of this title.

Poor air quality increases respiratory ailments like asthma and bronchitis, heightens the risk of life - threatening conditions like cancer, and burdens our health care system with substantial medical costs.

Our modeling shows that if the ANE pipeline is built as proposed, ratepayers will bear substantial net cost increases on their utility bills, even if the pipeline alleviates winter price spikes.