Sentence examples for used cost from inspiring English sources

Hansen and Zwanziger [ 4] used cost functions to compare marginal costs in general acute care among US and Canadian hospitals.

Muilenburg, who took over last July, used cost cuts to shore up profits in a period of constrained defence spending when he ran Boeing's defence unit.

"We found that some people used cost as an excuse to postpone the purchase," said Lindsay Zaltman, managing director of the company, speaking from the company's office in Pittsburgh.

The chief executive, Patricia F. Russo, has used cost cuts to return Lucent to profitability in the last two quarters after sales plummeted to $8.47 billion last year, from $30.6 billion in 1999.

A comprehensive overview on commonly used cost functions for wireless data networks is given in [5].

Reference pricing in drug reimbursement is a widely used cost containment method.

Businesses have used cost-cutting and the easy availability of credit to continue to generate record profits, the most important factor in stock prices.

Shared Lives Plus, for example, which employs a family-based model of care, has used cost-benefit evaluations to demonstrate the huge savings it can make on the public purse, along with amazing outcomes.

A survey by Mercer Management Consulting of businesses that used cost-cutting as their primary strategy in the first half of the 1990's -- a period that included a recession -- showed that 71percentt failed to achieve profitable growth in the strong second half of the decade.

Local ecological knowledge is an increasingly used, cost-effective source of data for conservation research and management.

The study used Cost-of-Illness approach by Rice [11] including WHO guidelines [1] for estimating economic consequences of disease and injury.