And decisions made at the lowest level possible are most likely to take costs into account.
Paradoxically, if nuclear warfare represented the highest level of warfare, there developed at the lowest level covert operations.
London shares slid more than 6% to Friday to close at the lowest level in nearly three years.
At the lowest level you can make more money in a band than you can in a job.
In theory, a team at the lowest level could, over the years, fight its way up to the top one.
Housing spending was only 33.8% of overall spending, compared with 34.4% in 2010, putting it at the lowest level since 2005.
Expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months remained at the lowest level registered since August 26, 2010.
This is the sixth consecutive monthly decline for construction spending, which is now at the lowest level in more than a decade.
Crime Prevention Minister Jeremy Browne said crime was continuing to fall and was now at the lowest level since the survey began.
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Inventory levels in many markets were at the lowest level in years.
Gross platinum shorts continued to decline for the seventh week in a row and now sit at the lowest level since April.
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This net length is now at the lowest level since July 2010.
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EU's much-flouted principle of subsidiarity (acting at the lowest level of government).
The latest survey of consumer confidence in America, published on March 25th, showed it to be at the lowest level for nine years.
It's a signal that labor costs for businesses are not picking up even though the unemployment rate hovers at the lowest level in a generation.
First, as the discount rate is at the lowest level it has been in decades, forest assets are much more competitive with other asset classes.
At the lowest level - the village - it had cells of between three and seven people, rising up to regional commands and a national command.
Separately, December industrial output in Italy rose 0.4% on the month, but for all of 2012 output was at the lowest level since at least 1990.
NAFTA's complex rules of origin, moving instead towards a customs union with common tariffs on goods from other countries (to be set at the lowest level of any of the three).
President Obama wins biggest debtor honors, by a small margin over his predecessor, because of the combination of large outlays to fight the recession and tax revenues at the lowest level since the Truman Administration.
Of course, some Manhattan brokers are now warning of listing shortages and potential price increases this year, as the inventory of co-ops and condominiums on the market are at the lowest level in a decade.
McGregor notes that while the company has enough cash to self-finance the deal, he adds that with interest rates at the lowest level in more than 60 years, the company will look at options for financing transactions.
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While acknowledging that DEC staffing was at the lowest level in a decade, Martens said there were no plans to close any state facilities such as parks, campgrounds, fish hatcheries, or the pheasant-breeding farm in central New York.
The mortar has changed little since World War II and remains one of the simplest weapons to operate, which is why it is found at the lowest level of infantry units, said Joseph Trevithick, a mortar expert with Global Security.org.
Housing inventories are at the lowest level since 1963, corporate profits are at an all time high, cash in the bank is at an all time high, announced stock buybacks are at an all time high, consumer spending is at an all time high, household obligations are the lowest since 1993.
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"On the contrary, if you look at the services sector, we see that the PMI continues to fall and is now at the lowest level since 2009 and this is a reflection of extremely weak domestic demand and with the budgetary austerity continuing in Europe for sure, domestic demand is going to remain negative in the near future, " he said.
Jewelry consumption meanwhile is declining by one third and is at the lowest demand level since 1990.
The tax law should be so clear as to resolve all, or most tax issues at the lowest possible level.
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And airlines have raised the price of award tickets by introducing higher-cost award tiers, reducing availability at the lowest award level.
The survey is based on 7, 000 booking requests for two seats at the lowest mileage level, now often called "saver" awards, at 25 airlines.
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