Still, what makes this a better cost control than what existed before is that these recommendations automatically become law unless Congress can pass a different plan that achieves the same savings.
Backed by the corporate bureaucracy, a chief executive might once have got by with good managers, cost-control, and a beady eye on the accounts.
But with cost control, a strong balance sheet and loads of stock buybacks, Gap has made itself an attractive investment.
Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and believe they maintain such a policy for idealistic reasons, the fact is such a strict environmental policy is also a great cost-control strategy.
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But while there are many who would agree we live on a crowded isle, population control comes at a cost - social and economic.
But in the commercially insured population, the program led to a net medical cost decrease of 22% compared to a control group not using the care-management services.
The sense that Skype is a free service, both in terms of cost and overt corporate control, is a big part of its appeal.
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His budget specified these savings despite saying that he would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key Medicare cost-control measure included in Obamacare.
"Clubs are now in a reporting period that will count towards the first assessment of UEFA's financial fair play break-even requirement for international competition and Premier League clubs are also considering the implementation of additional cost control regulation at a domestic level, " added Jones.
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This is because Medicaid so severely underpays doctors, as a clumsy attempt at cost control, that doctors lose money seeing these patients.
Among other cities that have recently experimented with new parking technologies, some, including San Francisco, have introduced dynamic pricing systems that raise and lower the cost of a space in order to control the supply of available on-street spaces.
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These include disciplined project management skills that will allow a company to process a resource play as efficiently as if it were an assembly line, repetitively drilling and fracking and completing wells one after another with a rabid eye on cost control.
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His team figured out a way to control Stanford's network with a few low-cost switches, some software, and a single PC.
If you don't have discipline in your team, then you don't have control and if you're not in control it can cost you a game.
The excellent television program by Fareed Zakaria on health care concluded that cost control was not due to a lack of the technology it was a political problem.
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It powered a revolution that cost Pelosi and her party control of the House of Representatives.
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Our elected officials in both political parties have not shown a willingness to act to implement cost control solutions.
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If Ryanair gains control of Aer Lingus, it would mark the first time one of Europe's "legacy" -- or formerly state-owned -- carriers falls under the control of a low-cost pioneer.
And should U.S. Bancorp make a big acquisition, Davis has the cost-control skills to make it pay.
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Research from Vanguard found that semiannual rebalancing can strike a reasonable balance between risk control and cost minimization.
But he adds that many businesses are still concentrating on cost control to grow profits, which suggests a lack of confidence.
Francis and others have shown that FEHBP provides superior customer satisfaction, a better benefit package, and greater cost control than Medicare does.
In that climate of uncertainty the U.S. Agency for International Development opted for a cost-plus, fixed-fee deal--a contract often used by governments to exert some control over costs and give the contractor incentive to engage in open-ended work.
The only of the four biggest banks with true cost-control credibility is Wells Fargo, home to a long line of maniacal bean counters.
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Under the new health care law, many insurers were, as of August 2012, required to cover the cost of most FDA-approved birth control prescribed by a doctor (but not abortifacient drugs).
Of course, government-run health care systems also insulate the patient from the cost of care, but they control costs by imposing a fixed budget, which eventually leads to the rationing of care.
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Environment minister Lord Taylor said the government and households could not control the rising cost of energy but could play a part in ensuring that it was used more efficiently.
And Mr Obama's cost-control mechanisms, imperfect though they are, have a fiscally useful role to play in bringing down the costs of government-provided insurance for the poor and the elderly.
The whole imbroglio is small potatoes for the Fertitta brothers, Frank and Lorenzo, who pulled their Station Casinos through bankruptcy and now control a large part of the lower-cost local gambling market in Las Vegas.
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Big Pharma could integrate low production cost in China with the quality control of Western medicine and tap a huge domestic demand, Li foresees.
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