In fact, many of these brands market the fact that there is no middleman as a cost savings that's passed directly on to the consumer.
Plus, filming locations are often subbed for budget reasons – a cost savings that may be emulated by Bond-ophiles looking to drive, dive and parkour in the same spots as the internationally famous British spy.
Stated reasons for switching software packages included: incompatibility issues between Reference Manager and Mac computers, difficulty importing references into EndNote, and, in one instance, a cost savings that would result from replacing EndNote with Zotero.
This week, the Detroit automaker announced a cost-saving plan that is expected to save the carmaker $15 billion by the end of 2009.
"It was a cost-saving measure that failed," said Robert Cvejanovich of Cannon Architecture and Design, the firm that designed the renovation, which began two years ago.
They both expressed concerns that a major justification for the proposed merger was a cost-saving program that would require many thousands of workers to be laid off.
According to Elias Haase, Co-founder and Community Manager of B9lab, the world's leading provider of blockchain education and training, he thinks that the next 10-years will bring blockchain into mainstream organizations as a cost-saving measure that can help with compliance.
On Monday, European Union ministers agreed that military training operations underway in Africa should have a headquarters in Brussels, a cost-saving move that is also a step toward the permanent European command structure called for in the union's 2009 Lisbon Treaty.
In 1993, President George Bush authorized a cost-saving program that eliminated accountability for merely "secret" material.
In dozens of cities, TV stations share a newsroom, broadcasting identical local news items, Brian Stelter writes, in a cost-saving effort that is similar to what has happened at some local newspapers.
It has also agreed to use the airport's boarding bridges instead of having its passengers enter and leave its planes through both doors, a cost-saving technique that speeds up the turnaround between flights.
