Sentence examples for fierce cost from inspiring English sources

The higher forecast reflected the store's fierce cost reduction program that closed 11 stores, eliminated 7,000 jobs, chopped capital spending, scaled back employee retirement funds and hacked its dividend.

And thanks in large part to fierce cost-cutting, very low interest rates, and strong demand in developing countries, corporate profits have been strong.

The Tribune Company has a reputation not only for being a fierce cost-cutter and union buster but for putting greater and greater emphasis on entertainment and business.

But these days, faced with one of the most savage downturns in the history of a notoriously cyclical industry, Lufthansa is desperately trying to conserve cash and cut capacity to match plunging demand.The airline recently warned that without fierce cost-cutting measures it would fail to make even an operating profit this year.

Exxon, the world's largest energy group, is likely to be the dominant partner; it has a fierce cost-cutting reputation.See article: Exxon and Mobil talkAlliedSignal failed to gain control of AMP, an electrical-equipment maker, in what had been one of America's biggest hostile takeover battles for years.

The U.K., now under a coalition government led by Tory David Cameron, is involved in a fierce cost-cutting campaign that is sparking widespread social tensions.

But racked by strong competition, escalating research and development costs and fierce price wars, selling heaps of cameras simply isn't enough.

The debate over the tax reform was so fierce it cost the leader of the PRI in Congress, Elba Esther Gordillo, her job.

"All the issues that are plaguing labor around the country -- health care, pensions, fierce low-cost competition -- are running through this strike," Harley Shaiken, a professor who specializes in labor issues at the University of California, said in a telephone interview.

An increasing number of students are looking to (mainland) European Medical Schools where competition is often less fierce and costs are lower.

With competition still fierce and low-cost carriers battling the majors, "there are lots of creative new ways to work the system legitimately," he said.