PAGE A29 BUSINESS IN FRANCE, DOWNTURN Costs Unions Influence Union workers at a Peugeot car plant in eastern France once had enough clout to win shorter workweeks and longer vacations -- during the Great Depression.
To add to that, the economic downturn had cost me most or all of my clients, I was unable to find work and I was losing my home.
In the aftermath of an economic downturn, the costs of attracting nurses back often outweigh the short term cost savings.
After that downturn, the cost-of-funds spread between small and large banks rose to 0.69 percentage point.
Farmers argue that the supermarkets have squeezed their margins even harder during the downturn, while costs for fuel and fertiliser have gone up.
One of the most important jobs of the next mayor could be to weather an economic downturn, controlling costs while encouraging business growth.
A new Halifax report says that, despite the downturn, houses costing more than £1m have shifted upwards by £134,000 in a year and, as Barry says: "There's a lot of European money competing in that sector, too.
The 2009 promotion was hailed as a tremendous success, not only by Diageo but also by many hard-pressed publicans, whose businesses have come under severe pressure from the economic downturn, below-cost sales of alcohol in supermarkets, antismoking legislation and, in the case of rural pubs in particular, a crackdown on drunken driving.
During this historic economic downturn, low-cost drugs would seem even more appealing than usual.
In times of economic downturns recruitment costs sink, so that even if firms train apprentices instead of employing skilled workers, the latter become relatively more attractive to employers.
