Sentences with phrase «with escalated costs»

Meeting the customer's desire for inexpensive menu items with the escalating cost of running a business «is tough to balance,» Poitras says.

Back to school is often equated with lavish expenses and students are faced with escalating costs on everything from tuition to gadgets.

With the escalating cost of veterinary fees, you can reach that with one illness or injury, as I recently experienced.

There's a major difference now with renewables — fossil fuels are a dwindling resource with escalating costs, renewable energy is an evolving technology with declining costs.

It is unsurprising the judges who case - manage class actions are beginning to get fed up with the escalating costs associated with these allegedly procedural motions.

Notably, SatoshiPay is not the only startup to switch from bitcoin to another blockchain because of issues with the escalating costs of micropayments.

Not exact matches

With a dwindling ready - labor supply and the escalating costs of attracting good workers, each new hire becomes increasingly consequential.

Escalating capital costs, occurring simultaneously with the growth of buy - side assets and revenues, indicate that the industry is moving toward leveraging benchmarks and other index products aimed at passive investors.

«The unrelenting and escalating cost pressures from shopping centres on their retail tenants, supermarkets creating franchise - like «stores in stores», successful brands being copied and co-located in food malls with no regard for the original tenant's interests, are just some of the challenges facing franchisees who are looking to run profitable businesses,» Mr Bilson told The Australian Financial Review.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

The Union will also be consulting members in schools where the cost of living award has not been paid with a view to taking escalated industrial action in those schools.»

A fight over disability pension benefits escalated on Friday, with the de Blasio administration defending its proposal and police and fire unions and members of the City Council claiming it short - changes uniformed workers, forcing them to choose between a better line - of - duty pension or a higher cost - of - living increase after retirement.

They are a pastel symbol of Easter joy, but behind the wax - eyed candy is a company at war with its union workforce over rising pension costs - an escalating legal tangle that could soon upend the retirement plans of 10 million Americans.

Negotiations with the public employee unions on contracts will have a dramatic impact on the budget as the county grapples with the rising cost of health insurance and rapidly escalating costs of paying into the public employee retirement and pension system.

The lawsuit lists Purdue, Teva, Janssen and Endo pharmaceutical companies as the defendants, and attempts to hold them responsible for health care and treatment costs related to opioid addiction, rising crime rates and escalating social issues across Albany County, said Elizabeth Smith, an attorney with Motley Rice.

With this focus on electrified urban centres, allied to escalating costs of operating conventionally - fuelled cars are oil prices increase, rural areas may require some further action to resolve mounting personal transport challenges.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has defended the increase saying it is «needed» to deal with escalating maintenance costs.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner testified today in Albany that Syracuse is facing «impending insolvency» that won't vanish with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to stabilize escalating pension costs.

The conditions, in a nutshell, are that the group and its purpose must be clearly defined; costs and benefits must be equally shared; decision - making must be by consensus; misconduct should be monitored; sanctions should start out mild and escalate only as needed; conflict resolution should be fast and fair; the group must have the authority to manage its affairs; and the relationship of the group with others must be appropriately structured.

The anterior insula was sensitive to escalating alcohol costs especially when the costs of drinking outweighed the benefits, indicating this could be the region of the brain at the intersection of how our rational and irrational systems work with one another.

But the obvious appeal attached to slowing the march of time, coupled with concerns from Western governments about escalating healthcare costs for ageing populations, has kept research interest alive.

With the lifetime costs of civilian brain injuries escalating, are local communities prepared for the complex treatment measures many veterans will require?

In «ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare,» directors Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke break down the factors that contribute to this national emergency, illustrating an entrenched system of overmedication, escalating costs, insurance tangles and physician quotas that mean less time with more patients.

In essence, the cost of operating a cloud - hosted Learning Management System tool can escalate pretty quickly for large organizations with thousands of employees working in a diverse list of departments.

Chicago and New York City, for example, have multi-million dollar deficits in food services, attributable to escalating costs and money owed from families who have not kept up with either their full or reduced - priced payments.

The cost to states for designing and administering high school exit exams is modest compared with the «rapidly escalating» costs school districts face as they try to raise student performance on the exams, concludes a report released last week.

While the number of school fires has decreased over recent years, the costs associated with school fires have escalated, while the effects of loss of facilities, equipment, coursework, disruption of classes and lowering of morale also have a significant impact.

Staff sickness is a major issue for any school and, with the average daily charge to schools for a supply teacher being as much as # 100 higher than the daily pay rate for the absent teacher, costs can escalate quickly!

With skyrocketing costs of higher education, in conjunction with an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testamWith skyrocketing costs of higher education, in conjunction with an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testamwith an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testament.

Escalating construction costs, along with a steady decline in enrollment that means a loss of state aid, could drive the price tag for the entire building program beyond its $ 19.2 billion budget, said Guy Mehula, the chief facilities executive for the Los Angeles Unified...

But when it comes to the operation of districts, Christie and the Legislature's subsequent 2 percent cap on property tax increases is clearly having a more lasting impact, as schools try to meet escalating costs with fewer financial resources.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.

«When we look at the budget conversations that are just forming up now for our school district, we have escalating costs in maintaining our facilities, we'll be going into negotiation conversations with our teachers and we want to treat them well for the costs they experience living up here or commuting up here to service our children.»

The numbers are even more impressive given the funding challenges facing the district in recent years, where rising teacher pension costs and declining state support have forced endless borrowing, budget cuts and layoffs, escalating tensions with the local teachers union.

For a long time, niche publishers and publishers of specialist books have had a particularly hard time coping with the problem of constantly declining print runs alongside escalating (printing) costs.

Taking on a mortgage with a poor credit score will escalate your costs further.

Both councillors say the city is facing a housing crisis, and with costs escalating, the dream of home ownership is getting out of people's reach.

On top of the fact that your money is going towards an asset that isn't giving you much of a return, a house has costs that a rental simply doesn't have (or rather, it does have them, but they are wrapped into your rent)- closing costs as a buyer, realtor fees and closing costs as a seller, maintenance costs, and constantly escalating property taxes are examples of things that renters deal with only in an indirect sense.

With the costs envolved to develop a quality firts party game escalating and the risk of Metacritic destroy the chances of your game sales.

It concludes with a brief discussion of solutions that may help control escalating costs.

With escalating energy demand and declining fossil fuel supplies — and more efficient production capabilities — it will very quickly be cost competitive.

Instead, the industry has responded to escalating costs with escalating demands for government support.

The report also describes how the protection of homes in the Wildland - Urban Interface (WUI) has added to these costs and concludes with a brief discussion of solutions that may help control escalating costs.

This report describes how the protection of homes in the Wildland - Urban Interface has added to wildfire costs and concludes with a discussion of solutions that may help control escalating risks and expenses.

Faced with rapidly escalating energy costs and an uncertain energy future, it makes sense for all of us to promote conservation and renewable energy options.

This ought to be a question of simple self - preservation for those wishing to avoid assessments of their accounts and protect their reputation among the bench and bar, but it also avoids unnecessarily escalating the conflict between the parties and the possibility of the client being faced with an adverse award of costs.

But if the investment value doesn't build up, the cost of cover can escalate with the increasing age of the life assured.

Pedestrian accident victims are left with escalating medical expenses, loss of income as a result of being unable to work while recovering, continuing treatment costs and long - term losses such as those that involve permanent injuries or disabilities.

It has created a culture of defensive medicine which can prejudice patient selection for surgery and escalate health costs with «just in case» investigations.

As the reforms have reduced opportunities for referral fees and escalating costs, the fraudsters have found ways to build their income through layering profit into multiple heads of loss with either fictitious or exaggerated elements of the claim.