Competition is severe, costs high, and the audience, never huge, seems to be shrinking every year.
With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many people worse off.
The auditor pointed to the need to cut heavy payroll charges that keep labour costs high.
This helps keep transfer costs high, since customers have no other choice.
But it has not been without costs — high debt, many people relocated and a deadly accident.
Maintaining the GE machinery would keep running costs high for years to come.
A reluctance to dismantle regulations has kept domestic telephone and data-transmission costs high.
A lack of competition in energy and telecoms keeps business costs high.
The subjects are usually ungrateful, if not mutinous, the military and economic costs high, the rewards murky.
It has stifled innovation and kept costs high for consumers, they say, even as it reduces expenses for agents.
And just like the other real estate companies, for now Insignia has found start-up costs high and profits elusive.
