SRA's criticisms of lax management of cost-plus maintenance contracts.
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An expert witness testifying on behalf of the plaintiffs - the US Department of Justice and the US states affected by the spill - countered that the disaster was a direct result of poor management and heavy cost-cutting at BP.
Never before in the short history of pension asset management have such high-cost, high-risk investment products proliferated pensions.
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Mr Summers wants the Fund to focus on short-term crisis management, and to avoid being a low-cost source of money for countries with ready access to private capital.
"The only reason we survived was that our management style was fundamentally low-cost, " says Motsepe.
Big phone companies offer cost-management services, but only for their larger customers and only for their own services.
Most of its growth since then, says Steve Wharton of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has come from cost-containment lay-offs, trimming delinquencies and getting rid of bad loans rather than top-line growth.
Thus encrypted drive key management can be offered as an on-line service, eliminated the cost and complexity of implementing key management for laptops and other storage devices.
Netflix : As mentioned in our previous response, management believes that in a largely fixed-cost streaming world with ease of cancellation and subsequent rejoin, net additions provides the most meaningful insight into our business performance and consumer acceptance of our service.
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Rowe Price Group (nasdaq: TROW - news - people ), the cost has been split 50-50 between the fund management company and investors, for at least two decades.
However as far as EA management really cares, they could be low-cost Foxconn workers making iPads.
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This deal still fell short of the cost-savings that the management wanted and the banks had rubber-stamped.
The CSB blamed lax safety culture at the firm as well as cost-cutting, bad management culture and worker fatigue.
Rather, take an aggressive stance on liability--on what you're responsible for and how you can control it--and the effect on cost management will be tremendous.
Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
The analysis of physician pay by the Medical Group Management Association indicates a greater shift to lower-cost primary care as employers, insurance companies and government health programs try to provide financial incentives to health professionals who work in outpatient care settings.
And he often suggests that clients hire case-management companies a fast-growing industry with telephone banks of nurses offering high-cost patients advice in the hope of making up for the deficiencies of the system.
Betterment uses low-cost exchange-traded funds from iShares and Vanguard Group, and takes a management fee of 0.15% to 0.35% on top of underlying fund fees.
Yet net earnings grew by 22% as a result of cost-cutting and adept financial management.
Despite this fall in sales, the company said more store space, cost-cutting and better stock management had enabled it to boost its profits.
When integrated into modern disaster risk management schemes, traditional management techniques have proven to be efficient and cost-effective tools to mitigate environmental risks and reduce vulnerability.
In one analysis by the Office of Management and Budget, of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17.
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While the near-term outlook for semiconductor equipment demand has softened, we are committed to achieving the appropriate balance between cost management and continued investment in next-generation solutions for our customers.
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At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.
It seems that management wants to run a premium airline on a low-cost budget.
When profits grow considerably faster than sales, management is probably making cost cuts, which are one-time efforts that cannot be repeated over and over.
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There may be plenty of reasons why teams and leagues have trouble with cost control, though weak-kneed management that tends to buckle under these kinds of ultimatums are certainly a big one.
Perhaps more interesting than the rankings, though, was the finding that customers of MVNOs (like Virgin) ranked their services higher in account management and cost, while direct services (like T-Mobile) fared better in areas like company image and call quality.
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This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.
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