Taylor said costs increased mainly because the bank booked the reorganization charges in its French business ( which lost 203 million pounds in the first half ) and investments in systems to its cost line.
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Intel has responded by bringing out its own low-cost line of chips called Celeron, and also by launching companywide efforts to reduce costs, so the company can charge less for Pentium II chips while still making a profit.
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The partners in Opodo are British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, Alitalia, Austrian, Finnair, Iberia and KLM . All their routes are covered, as are any other regularly scheduled carriers'routes that are included in the Amadeus system, which generally excludes the low-cost lines.
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He discussed the idea of a light railway with Henry S Ellis, a director of the B & ER; Pain suggested a low-cost line as a steam or possibly horse operated tramway running in or alongside the roadway, to serve the Culm Valley settlements.
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The manufacturing outsourcing deal is IBM's second with Sanmina-SCI, a leading contract manufacturer based in San Jose, Calif . A year ago, IBM reached agreement with Sanmina-SCI to produce most NetVista desktop PCs, the company's lower-cost line, in a three-year deal estimated at $ 5 billion.
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"Hospitals are under pressure from managed care to reduce costs, and they are looking at nurses as their highest-cost line item, " said Howard Berliner, professor of health policy at the New School for Social Research, who predicted that nursing layoffs would " greatly accelerate " this year.
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The "'point of total assumption "'( "'PTA "') is a point on the cost line of the profit-cost curve determined by the contract elements associated with a fixed price plus incentive-Firm Target ( FPI ) contract above which the seller effectively bears all the costs of a cost overrun.
