Sentences with phrase «switching costs in»

Replacing, maintaining, and servicing this large sunk cost for the DOD means Lockheed enjoys large switching costs in military rotary aircraft as well.

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Instead, enough voters switched, stayed home, or went for third parties in the final days to cost me the state.»

In 2008, Express Scripts paid $ 9.3 million to settle a suit by New York and 28 other states that claimed it deceptively inflated costs for state employees, in part by secretly switching to higher - cost drugs, and that it allegedly pocketed millions in manufacturer rebateIn 2008, Express Scripts paid $ 9.3 million to settle a suit by New York and 28 other states that claimed it deceptively inflated costs for state employees, in part by secretly switching to higher - cost drugs, and that it allegedly pocketed millions in manufacturer rebatein part by secretly switching to higher - cost drugs, and that it allegedly pocketed millions in manufacturer rebatein manufacturer rebates.

When boot maker Vans signed on as a partner in the summer of 1995, Switch agreed to produce 6,000 bindings, which cost Switch $ 50 a pop.

The company lost $ 20.7 million in the first quarter, largely because of costs associated with switching to International Financial Reporting Standards.

«We've built in what we call a switching cost,» he explains.

Because of a mid-year CEO switch in 2015, Twitter split its security costs among two CEOs.

In 2005, according to documents supplied recently to Congress, GM failed to make a repair of the switch that would have cost just 57 cents.

Once upon a time, your only constraint in switching brands was the cost of the phone.

In last year's bestseller ReWork, 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson remind us that the true cost of an hour - long meeting with 10 attendees is 10 hours of productivity — «and it's probably more like 15 hours, because there are mental - switching costs that come with stopping what you're doing, going somewhere else to meet, and then resuming what you were doing beforehand.»

Despite the increased costs, Lee is hopeful that the costs of mistakes will go down and customer satisfaction in a consistent experience will go up to balance the effects of the switch.

Smartphone maker BlackBerry once accounted for 20 % of Celestica's revenue (which was US$ 6.5 billion last year), but as BlackBerry lost market share in recent years and had to cut costs, it switched to cheaper Asian suppliers, and the two companies formally announced their split last summer; sure enough, Celestica's first - quarter results showed a BlackBerry - sized hole in the balance sheet, with revenues down 19 % from the year before.

In addition, 15 percent say they have increased their plan's cost - sharing to avoid reaching the excise tax thresholds, and 9 percent say they switched to a lower - cost health plan.

For instance, Navius found that households in the Peace River region could save up to $ 1200 a year by 2030 on energy costs by switching to cleaner and more efficient vehicles, home heating and energy sources.

Households in the Peace River region could save up to $ 1200 a year by 2030 on energy costs by switching to cleaner and more efficient vehicles, home heating and energy sources.

Due in part to a growing lack of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online advisors (often called robo - advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.

Although competition for online services may seem to be «just one click away,» research drawing on behavioral tendencies shows that the «switching cost» of changing web services can, in fact, be quite high.225

For once, this is a good cost as it's designed to penalise market - timers switching in and out of funds like manic high - frequency traders.

If not, you will no longer be able to rest on the laurels of barriers to entry, high distribution costs, incumbent advantages like shelf space, bigger advertising budgets, switching costs, or just about any other advantage that you used to enjoy in years past.

FCA's 80 % plus market share in the North American coal car market is protected by high switching costs and 100 plus years of market share and technological dominance.

In fact, the pressure on Savvides could well switch quickly from his apparent lack of willingness to cut costs to the far more important question of whether or not he has the ability to execute a strategy of integrating health insurance with health services.

Many financial advisers who favor low - cost, broadly diversified and tax - efficient portfolios for wealthy clients are switching from no - load index mutual funds to exchange - traded funds, or at least including ETFs in the portfolios.

This isn't necessarily optimal for (all) platforms — it cannibalizes a potential revenue stream and reduces switching costs — but it would dramatically lower the friction of entering and actively participating in accredited crowdfunding markets.

The switch from TLTRO I to TLTRO II will provide banks with a net subsidy that may or may not be booked immediately in treasury accounts, but will eventually help compensate the aggregate cost of negative deposit rates.

A subscriber requested corroboration of the findings in «Simple Debt Class Mutual Fund Momentum Strategy» with a universe restricted to a family of bond funds (such as Fidelity) to enable low - cost fund switching.

Benefits have also been trimmed in recent years by switching from defined contribution pensions to 401 (k) s and increasing employee contributions to health care costs.

As my colleague Tim Green pointed out in an in - depth article about Buffett's IBM investment, most of IBM's revenue comes from clients who use multiple IBM solutions, which creates big switching costs (this is what Buffett means by «stickiness»).

But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

«For instance, we once had a customer switch to another bakery in an attempt to reduce costs.

In keeping with their philosophy of supporting their customers, the company removed the motherboard in its CAB USA machines, replacing it with switches to making it easily repairable by the owner, thereby reducing the cost of labor and partIn keeping with their philosophy of supporting their customers, the company removed the motherboard in its CAB USA machines, replacing it with switches to making it easily repairable by the owner, thereby reducing the cost of labor and partin its CAB USA machines, replacing it with switches to making it easily repairable by the owner, thereby reducing the cost of labor and parts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly two - thirds of consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers that shifted retail sales activities from internal teams to sales and marketing agencies (SMAs) reported a positive impact on selling costs after switching, according to Maximizing the Impact of Outsourcing: How CPGs Can Best Use Sales and Marketing Agencies in a Changing Environment.

In this video, Klaus Langen of Langen Kaffee explains how switching to DuPont ™ Cyrel ® round flexographic printing sleeves helped his company reduce costs while elevating the quality and style of its flexible food packaging.

Koch said more Australians need to be proactive in scoring better deals to cut household costs on expenses including utility bills and insurance costs by comparing products and switching.

Connecting both safety switches and safety sensors with OSSD outputs in series minimizes the amount of wiring and the number of inputs at the safety controller, thus reducing costs.

We kinda switched off in the final minutes of the palace match, and it nearly cost us all 3 points!

The duo have played key roles in our new 3 -4-2-1 formation since the successful switch, and should be kept at all costs, but until new contracts are signed, the cloud of doubt remains over the pair.

Having seen Edinson Cavani close in on a PSG switch Jose Mourinho will have to identify alternative striker signings and Zenit are looking to garner around # 40m from the sake of a player who cost them # 35m last September.

The France international's future is in doubt at the moment as a summer switch to a bigger club looks likely, with Don Balon tipping him to cost $ 100million.

A self - deprecating NCAA is a welcome switch from the previously smug organization that has only been moved to meaningful action in the recent past by federal court decisions (the ban on cost - of - attendance stipends became illegal once the NCAA got whipped in O'Bannon vs. NCAA) and terrible PR (Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier made the schools look silly with their food rules by speaking out during a tournament that makes $ 770 million a year for the NCAA in television revenue, hence the unlimited meals rule change).

The Spaniard made the switch from Atlético Madrid to Chelsea in July, at a cost of # 32 million to the Blues, but he was more than a worthy investment.

Similarly, as has been noted elsewhere, when touting the savings to be gained by switching from disposable cutlery to metal flatware, the book doesn't ask food service directors to factor in the increased labor and utility costs of washing that flatware on a daily basis.

Bloomingdale — The Park District saved about $ 20,000 in health insurance premiums by switching insurers, but employees may still find themselves paying part of their insurance costs by the summer.

Switching from planned birth in an obstetric unit to midwifery units was on average cost saving and associated with a non-significant decrease in adverse perinatal outcomes.

For low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour, the mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios associated with switches from planned birth in obstetric unit to non-obstetric unit settings fell in the south west quadrant of the cost effectiveness plane (representing, on average, reduced costs and worse outcomes).25 The mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios ranged from # 143382 (alongside midwifery units) to # 497595 (home)(table 4 ⇓).

Disposable pads and tampons are made from many of the same materials used in making disposable diapers — bleached pulp or viscose rayon from tree cellulose, super-absorbent acrylic polymers and gels, and plastic backings (a petroleum product)-- if you're a cloth diaper devotee and realize the hazards and costs of disposable diapers, switching to cloth for yourself might suddenly seem easier!

In Virginia's Alexandria City Public Schools, the switch to whole grain sandwich buns cost the 12,000 student district nearly $ 75,000.

The Labour leader used an article for the Sun on Sunday newspaper to accept his proposed switch in the way Labour is funded via the trade unions will «cost us money».

If the United States were to adopt the metric system of units, as commonly used in all other advanced industrial economies, there would clearly be switching costs for the economy as a whole, and there would likely be cost savings due to greater standardisation with other economies.

Stopping the gas trade would cause internal disorder in the gas consuming countries as there would be many residents w / o adequate heating and there would be switching costs and chaos while workarounds are implemented.

Young children in Western New York suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in the upstate region — a rate that's more than three times higher than that in Flint, Mich., where a cost - driven switch to an alternate water system left 4 percent of children tested with signs of lead exposure.