Short-term margins did improve, going from negative to positive, which is great, but almost all attributable to cost cutting, not growth.

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But only a part of this cost is directly attributable to the audit.

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And it turns out -- we were just talking about the budget -- about a third of our increase in health care cost is directly attributable to obesity and illnesses like diabetes that are entirely preventable and curable if folks got back into the same habits that our parents and our grandparents had.

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But Mr Kendall said only about 10% of the cost of a loaf was attributable to wheat.

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These proposals can be a significant cost for multinational corporations with high gross margins attributable to intangible property.

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The decrease is primarily attributable to the continuing effects of actions taken in conjunction with Clearwire's cost cutting initiatives in 2011 including lower employee-related expenses resulting from headcount reductions and outsourcing of the customer care function, reduced marketing spend, as well as decreased selling commission expense associated with our no-contract product offering which was launched at the beginning of 2012.

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