The phrase "attacking cost" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing strategies or tactics related to financial implications, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The company's focus on attacking cost has led to significant savings in their operational budget."
Alternatives: "reducing expenses" or "cutting costs".
As a way of attacking cost problems, officials at General Motors should have asked why they needed 21% more hours than Ford to accomplish the same thing or why GM was some 68% less efficient than Nissan.
They're called "guaranteed-dollar programs" and are one way travel companies are attacking cost shifts, says Marshall Calder, vice president of marketing for Leading Hotels of the World, a consortium of luxury destination hotels.
Some online scammers have developed strategies for attacking "cost-per-action" (CPA) and affiliate programs that were once believed to be fraud-proof.
Toshiba is also attacking costs, with plans to eliminate about 10percentt of its work force, or some 19,000 jobs.
In its absence, Aberdeen must keep attacking costs and hunt for smaller rivals to buy and restructure.
Instead, they seemed able only to tighten the thumbscrews on their existing processes, attacking costs through mergers and layoffs, as they withered away.
Buffett says that we should "attack cost cost cost" as "jobs jobs jobs".
Booth was dismissed for 71 while attempting to loft the spin of Tony Lock over the infield, as captain Richie Benaud needed quick runs; observers felt the need to attack cost Booth his maiden Test century.
The concessions were not the only way American has attacked costs.
In the presidential campaign, for example, he attacked cost-cutting proposals by his Republican opponents and won support from millions of voters by promising to defend Medicare.
Horta-Osório has attacked costs – by £1bn, he says, over the past two years – and Lloyds has benefited from gentler funding conditions for all banks.
