Thus, while the mainland refiners are legally free to purchase and refine all sugar within the raw sugar quota and Puerto Rican refiners are limited to their shares of the refined sugar quota, Congress apparently thought that Puerto Rican refiners operated at costs sufficiently low to insulate them from mainland competition.
While other fund management firms heap on fees to bolster profits, Vanguard operates at cost.
"Some plans decided to operate at cost, or below cost, to get a substantial share of the market," said Babette S. Edgar, a former Medicare official who is now a consultant at the Gorman Health Group.
"We need to raise $2.7 million to build out these spaces on Howard Street so we can operate at cost and have no debt when they open," said Carly J. Bales, artistic director for EMP.
The NPL's platform contained concrete and specific measures: state ownership of elevators, flour mills, packing houses and cold storage plants; state inspection of grain grading and dockage; state hail insurance; rural credit banks operating at cost; exemption of farm improvements from taxation.
Sir John has calculated that if every NHS organisation in Britain currently operating at costs one standard deviation above the mean were to improve its performance to the mean level, the NHS would save somewhere close to the £15 billion it is supposed to find over the next five years.It is about care as well as costs.
We chose not to assess allocative efficiency using price information, because Japanese hospitals are under rigid price control by the government, and operated at low cost [ 14].
They proved efficient, especially in raising poultry and cattle, but operated at high cost.
The BBC's coverage of the tournament was anchored by Gary Lineker from a local studio in the Austrian capital, built and operated at a cost of an extra £250,000, the report said.
Smaller airports could be built and operated at lower cost than larger airports, but both airports and airlines would need subsidies to operate.
While the toilets are operated at no cost to the city, they're numerically insufficient to meet public need and, as was documented on the A&E show Intervention, have become hotbeds for drug use.
