Barclays executive Jerry del Missier quit the bank after apparently mistakenly concluding from an email sent by his boss, Bob Diamond, that Tucker had sanctioned the bank's massaging of its borrowing costs downwards.
Alpha Edition dolls are £99 but they plan to reduce the costs downwards, obviously, and they have to be push the 3D printed products through extensive toy safety testing before they can be labelled for use by babies, toddlers and younger children.
For plants adjusting their average wage downwards, the annual adjustment cost claims, on average, up to 3.6% of revenue.
On the right, devotion to HSAs and high-deductible coverage has crowded out other promising ideas, including some that, like the MRP, would achieve the central goals of fiscal conservatives by "bending the cost curve downwards".
Political definitions take precedence over scientific definitions in an attempt to try to bend the health care cost curve downwards.
The cost-effectiveness ratios are also biased upwards (or downwards) to the extent that transport costs and costs of work lost due to treatment exceed (or are exceeded by) the transport costs and costs of work lost due to screening [ 93, 94].
Lung inflation contributes positive buoyancy, which facilitates locomotion and feeding in still or slow water, but at the cost of swimming downwards to maintain position in the water column (Ultsch et al., 1999).
