Sentence examples for old costs from inspiring English sources

The way H.P. made its numbers, Mr. House said, was not just cutting any old costs, but by "chopping R.&D.," which had always been sacred at H.P. The research and development budget used to be 9 percent of revenue, Mr. House told me; now it was closer to 2 percent.

Amazing not just because the book is almost half a century old, costs $40 and contains 752 pages of labor-intensive and time-consuming recipes — the art of French cooking is indeed hard to master — but also for what those recipes contain.

Meanwhile, the old costs in this buffer are shifted into the layer buffer.

One drawback: Retrieving articles more than 30 days old costs extra.

At the same time, some old costs in Q p0 - 1, l - 1) are moved to Q p0 - 2, l - 1) in a similar way.

Since no old costs or future costs were included in the analysis, there was no need to inflate or discount costs in this study.

"It should be marked by bludgeoning, boring, good old cost-cutting".

However, United didn't morph but rather maintained its old cost structure, which prevented it from competing effectively in the low-cost market.

John F. Maher, former chief executive of Great Western Bank, a large savings and loan that was later acquired, said that the old cost-of-funds index benefited borrowers.

NHS Direct is broken up among 46 bidders for local 111 services, paid only 30% of the old cost per call, so already many contracts are going bust.

The most important innovation for the space program, Mr. Musk said, would be to get away from the old "cost plus" model in which NASA contractors are guaranteed a profit on top of whatever costs they incur.