Gathered in cramped six-person "cells, " they assemble computers from batches of parts that arrive via a computer-directed conveyor system overhead.
Big black bags holding 250 pounds of dirty coveralls and uniforms are dumped from a rail system overhead into 450-pound steel washers big enough to scrub a small rhino.
Dr. Rivlin is a brilliant woman, and she must know that the two biggest problems in our health care system are overhead and overuse.
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The unbundling of the lucrative distribution system from the overhead-heavy movie making operations was devastating for the studios.
Initiatives such as a single billing system or one nationalized electronic medical record would go a long way toward decreasing the overhead in our system.
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And yet the private insurance reimbursement model is literally built on a system of foisting huge overhead on small medical practices.
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Over the 8% overhead in the system, about 2.5% are commissions to brokers, and 3% profits of medical providers and health insurance companies.
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"Our crews will essentially be rebuilding 2, 000 feet of damaged track and overhead wires and signal system, " Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut said in a statement.
The gap between the pantograph, which is the arm on top of the train car that draws power from overhead lines, and the catenary system must remain within a precise distance and tension.
With high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, C4 plants are not as productive as C3 plants, which do not have the overhead costs of the carbon-dioxide enrichment system.
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The system consists of sensors fitted on cables throughout the network, both overhead and underground, measuring current and conductor temperature.
As a single exchange, Duffy figured it could cut millions of dollars in overhead costs, offer every product class in a single electronic system and be large enough to expand into over-the-counter derivatives trading.
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