Western materials and Russian taxes mean high costs.
For another 2,900 firms, profits are on a downward trajectory, higher in 2011 than in 2012.Temporary losses are not always a problem: developing new products can mean high costs today and big profits tomorrow.
Starting up even a small website can mean high costs, and there is almost no protection for intellectual property.
Visible at certain degrees of magnification, they are widely accepted in the industry; though fewer would always mean higher cost.
Growing spuds, once one of the more rudimentary agricultural activities, has gone high-tech in recent decades, and high-tech inevitably means high cost.
This means high cost, urbanized areas — which already skew toward accommodating upwardly mobile and wealthy white collar workers — could see the working-class segments of their workforces further undercut.
The higher premiums mean higher costs for employers and, in many cases, for employees, he said.
That could mean higher costs passed on to consumers and imperiled jobs, they contend.
An ageing population will mean higher costs in pensions, health and social care.
Would being treated as systemically important mean higher costs for Vanguard investors?
