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Health care offered a chance to do so (broader coverage could come with tougher cost controls).
Kodak said it would counter a slide in demand with tougher cost controls, cuts in capital spending and a $200 million reduction in inventories.
Without tougher cost control devices, be it vouchers to limit government spending or direct government rationing, counting on savings of the scale needed to overcome the expected increase in Medicare rolls may be hoping for pie in the sky.
Updated at 5.15pm BST 4.20pm BST City analyst Louise Cooper points out that Pfizer would have to make even tougher cost cuts to justify a higher bid: Please note that the higher AZN Board drive the price up, the larger the cuts will be if Pfizer does eventually buy it.
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If the introduction of new vaccines is greeted with anger that some children have missed the boat, rather than gladness that science brings new advantages with each year that passes, then the further lump sum spent on protecting children who are at much less risk will simply become part of an even tougher cost-benefit analysis.
Known for its tough cost controls, Fox is coming off a difficult stretch.
It also noted a return to central control of budgets from Westminster with funding decisions increasingly tied to tough cost reduction targets.
As Jonathan Chait writes:Democrats could have stiffed the unions if a few Republicans stepped forward to support the bill in exchange for tough cost control measures that Obama clearly wanted.
Coucher said his decision to step down after three years in charge was not influenced by the financial pressures bearing down on the company, which faces tough cost cuts regardless of the state of the wider public finances.
"We've got to move faster in addressing some tough cost challenges like health care in the United States and our overcapacity and high cost footprint in Europe," he added in a separate statement.
John Appleby, the King's Fund's chief economist, said the results indicated that with many trusts facing "very tough cost improvement targets … there must be a significant doubt about whether many of these targets will be met".
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