Overburdened with retiree pension and health care costs, competing against both imports and modern minimills, the steel industry was convulsing again.
Since then, state officials — struggling with escalating costs, competing demands and limited land — have had to shrink their ambitions, devising a series of alternative plans that provide a far more modest expansion than envisioned three years ago.
But the ritual could end for two reasons: right before a presidential election, with health care costs competing as a major issue, such a move might be too embarrassing.
They said that some were probably even going to figure out how to cut costs, compete effectively and maybe even thrive -- especially considering the fact that you can't get to Paris, Tokyo or London on little JetBlue.
Our findings suggest that: (1) patients have a high level of commitment to medication adherence; (2) the high cost of transportation for monthly clinic visits is a serious concern for many individuals and can compromise both ARV adherence and access to care; and (3) transportation costs compete with other essential personal and family needs when resources are scarce.
Compared to contemporary scientific calculators, some functions were slow to execute, and others had limited accuracy or gave the wrong answer, but the cost of the Sinclair was a fraction of the cost of competing calculators.
Their shares fell yesterday as analysts factored in the cost of competing with the world leader.
Girardin's great triumph, however, was the founding of La Presse (1836), a basically conservative newspaper that sold for less than half the cost of competing newspapers.
He wants the cost of competing in the next edition of the Cup to be considerably less expensive in order to attract more teams.
If these are taken into account, it says nuclear power will be able to hold its own in terms of cost with competing.
