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At least one major materials and manufacturing company in the United States we spoke to has already begun outsourcing analytical services to a research center in India. When we spoke to users about the expense of owning and maintaining inspection tools, the biggest expense is the fact you need to hire and pay a highly trained scientist to successfully operate it, and there's big opportunity there for outsourcing.

At a time he's down in the polls, he's looking at this issue to gain support in his community at the expense of other communities, ... He's done nothing to improve race relations in the region since he's been in office.

At expense of margins, we believe Pier 1 continues to rely on heavy promotions to drive sales. March results seem to have improved, but we await greater signs of improvement.

As much as we intend to aggressively expand the FHA program to help even more families realize their American Dream and become homeowners, we will not do so at the expense of the financial soundness, integrity or reputation of the Federal Housing Administration.

It sets a bad precedent to focus on one food, as if it were a magic bullet. What this will do is encourage people to stuff themselves on oat bran products or oat products at the expense of some other good food.

It seems that heavy discounting succeeded in clearing unwanted inventory, but only in some areas of retailing and at the expense of retailers' profit margins.

It's a $2 million expense for the city, and so far the city has paid $1.5 million to the state. We give out the money in phases as per request. It's roughly $500,000 per request.

It's a Catch-22 situation. With a club like ours trying to reestablish that we can win and compete, we have to win every game we have a shot to win. But I'm not going to do that at the expense of hurting our pitchers.

It's a black and white issue. The only people who would say that options aren't an expense are the ones that don't want to include it as an expense.

It is pandering to the pushy middle classes at the expense of children in less advantaged circumstances. A period of calm would be more welcome in our schools than yet another period of change.

It moves cost from capital expense that needs to be depreciated to the operating budget, so it's easier to budget for.

It's not really a problem for higher ed. So why go to all this expense for so little gain?

It's no secret we've been looking to strengthen the museum, our collection, and raise scholarship funds. If (moving) will get us to the point where we can do that without the expense of a building eating up our funds, then it is a good thing.

The number of individuals and families in Georgia who buy their own health insurance is growing every day and, like all Americans, they are struggling to fit another expense into their budgets at a time when everything seems to cost more from the gas pump to home heating.

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

It's one thing to buy existing buildings with existing showroom space, ... It's another to go through the expense of buying a building and converting it into new showroom space.

It is this negligence and indifference by the two departments that has precisely emboldened the oil firms to freely increase their prices, often in concert, as if they were operating like a cartel, at the expense of consumers.

It's a loss. I can't search for things and try to figure things out at the expense of this ball club. Not now. Not in August. Not with a 2 1/2-game lead. Tonight was a night when I certainly had the stuff to win and just did not execute.

It?s good that these guys are waking up management. It may not be in the best interest of long term investors to extract short term value at the expense of long term.

It's my practice to pay as I go. If I go out to the Oscars, I have an expense account for legitimate business expenses.

It's unfounded. That's an expense that has to be covered by each government.

Dan's highly successful track record in sales leadership with world-class enterprise software companies is impressive, ... With Dan on the team, we are confident that his sales execution strategies will help increase our market share in the growing telecom expense management space.

The new regulation does not say: New immigrants can come to the EU, or you don't have to work and we'll give you more rights, even if you're living at the expense of our tax payers.

The No. 1 problem facing dot-comers is the amount of commitment and time spent at these start-ups at the expense of the employee's personal life. People make the sacrifice of putting the job ahead of relationships and personal health.

The obsession with this one individual at the expense of 11 million others is, in my view, wrong,

It's not appropriate for City Hall to be used for private business. It seems the better part of valor would be to have Southern California Edison reimburse the city for the expense or for her to use another facility.

It's not a people target, it is an expense target, ... We do not expect a significant impact to the head-count at GTE.

Earnings have bottomed, we're regaining market share, contained the expense growth and pursing with our plans for restructuring and with everything going well, we can maintain our dividend.

Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

The biggest expense was the travel funding. That was by far the biggest concern. It was pretty close to doubling the cost of taking a bus to Waynesburg College, maybe from $400 to $800.

The administration is claiming extraordinary presidential powers at the expense of civil liberties and is putting the president above the law.

Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?

Strong revenue generation and disciplined expense management were the highlights of the second quarter, while credit quality remained stable." ()

It's certainly helpful for the commuters, but it comes at the expense of people trying to use their own town. The people who live in town are having trouble getting across the streets.

It's clearly a reward for the fact that Mike DeWine has been one of the president's most loyal supporters. He has voted the way George Bush wants him to nine out of 10 times. He has voted with the president even when it's at the expense of Ohio.

It's an expense for them and I understand that. But that doesn't help me pay my child support.

It's a major challenge. No one can depend on the advertising revenue stream for profitability anymore. The key is finding additional revenue streams, but not at the expense of quality.

I've got two kids and I don't want to burden them with that kind of expense when I'm 75 or 80 or 85. People with houses, stocks, savings, retirement funds, they may want to look at this. That's what drives the middle class to think about long-term-care insurance, to preserve estates.

Nokia will go on conquering the mobile phone market at the expense of its rivals. Nokia has reiterated (its) forecast for the next three years, which makes a refreshing change for companies in this sector.

Nokia and Motorola are running away with it and taking share at the expense of everyone else.

Notebook computers now offer much of the functionality of desktops, and consumers and businesses alike are spending the extra for the added benefit of mobility. In that sense, mobile growth is coming at the expense of desk-based PCs to some extent.

It's wrong to accept what China is doing just to do business in the country. There's profit to be made, but it comes at the expense of free speech, and, ultimately, it goes against the very idea of the Internet as an open arena for communication.

It's very good to put theories to the test--some work, and some don't. It's a big study, but expense is kind of relative given the public health costs of giving wrong advice.

It will take the rest of fiscal 2001 to get back on track, ... In the second half of the year the significantly reduced expense levels will take hold.

They will be happy about the upgrading of relations, even if it comes at the expense of more tension in U.S.-China relations.

They've really reeled in their expense structure. You're going to see more of that going forward,

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.

Once a beach is nourished, it has to be constantly maintained and re-nourished at a rate of anywhere from every two to five years resulting in a huge expense for the county or government.

Sleepy workers are a pricey expense for businesses, since their productivity and the quality of their work is negatively affected,

That's an operating expense, and we always treat it as an operating expense no matter how it is reported.

That's a sharp contrast to Gore's 'People v. Powerful Business,' delivered last week on Capitol Hill, ... is in the hands of an elite, which embodies wealth and power and represents them at the expense of citizens.

Their (the students') goal was to get some money for the sisters to have, outside of the special trust that's been set up for them. The Key Club's goal was to give them some general expense money.

The consumer reporting agencies used to view (consumer interaction) as kind of an expense and onerous and it wasn't anything they were too interested in. We want that experience to be a positive one. This is a business now.

In follow-up to our announcement in late November, we've been working diligently to restructure the secured notes under terms that we believe are beneficial to our stockholders. This restructuring, which relieves the Company of approximately $3.4 million of amortization and debt service costs and $500,000 of interest expense per quarter, is a major step towards our goal of generating consistent profitability and positive cash flows.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

In anticipation of the receipt of RTB proceeds, we elected to reduce our debt by repurchasing a like amount of our high cost senior notes using excess cash on hand. The notes repurchased will reduce ACS' gross cash interest expense by approximately $790,000 per annum, more than offsetting the expected loss of approximately $500,000 in annual dividends we have historically received from our investment in Class C RTB stock.

In an effort to address the concerns of city agencies and to utilize our site as an enhancement to the Mill River Corridor Project, there is a significant expense planned in the area of landscaping and site screening.

In a market where employees place a higher priority on their personal lives, employers need to understand that it hasn't come at the expense of the quality of their work. More than ever, staff are looking for professional development and career advancement on the job, though perhaps within a compressed time schedule that allows them to get home to their families.

I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.

If you can cut that second-biggest monthly expense in half, groceries, that makes a huge difference in the family budget.

In the world of unregulated hedge funds, it can be hard to tell fact from fiction. This one was pure fiction. The defendants led lifestyles of the rich and famous at the expense of their investors.

In the history of TSU, historically these expenditures have been allowed. Secondly, every dollar that was spent was the kind of expense that is an appropriate use of state funds.

In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains - Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey - in at least two subsequent general elections.

Institutional activism is a double-edged sword. When prudently applied, activism can provide effective monitoring of publicly traded corporations. When abused, portfolio managers can pursue their personal agendas at the expense of those whose money they manage.

In-state tuition is a benefit for citizens. These students would be getting a taxpayer benefit at the expense of citizens.

I have put in 23 years of service and have been a donor. This has all been done in a very callous manner. I feel the board and the director should have done something. They're hanging on to their endowment at the expense of the staff.

Investors need to do the same degree of comparison shopping they would normally do when choosing between funds, which means digging into things like expense ratios, historical performance and holdings.

In the production process, the press runs pages in sets of 16 called 'signatures.' A 208-page guide allows for 13 signatures and would cost institutions no more additional expense than it would to publish a 200-page media guide.

If you want to invest in emerging markets, invest in a good manager. Although emerging market funds are expensive, the disparity between returns at the top and bottom of emerging markets funds makes the expense worthwhile.

In addition to the economic impact dollar figure, of particular interest to us was that the All-Star Game and related events generated nearly 20,000 hotel room nights, with an average lodging expense of $403 per group.

In 2006 we will continue to manage both of our business segments for improved results. Our 2005 strategic initiatives included product development, increased new sales, actuarial and pricing analysis, and providing exceptional services to our agents and customers. Our 2006 objectives are increased new sales, expense reductions, actuarial analysis on our medical business and continuing to provide exceptional service.

If the lessons of September 11th and the Asian tsunami are learned, some cold-hearted evil scam artists will use this occasion to perpetrate fraud, lining their own pockets at the expense of hurricane victims.

It has certainly occurred at the expense of the fair-use rights, which underpins our right to speak freely in society. That growing body of scholarship includes a number of prominent law professors and writers on the West Coast.

I have worked with a number of leveler types in the past, including pure manual and hydraulic. With this one, we don't have to deal with the time and expense involved with digging and pouring a concrete pit." ()

Clearly the costs are huge. Just the lost revenue itself is substantial, plus all the other expense involved in a tragedy like this. We were already having an extremely difficult year. This will only exacerbate that. But this remains a fundamentally sound company.

He's right. If the wedding has become more important than your relationship, that's a warning sign. Yes, you want a lovely wedding, but not at the expense of your relationship. After all, what's the point? Keep your future in mind.

By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving it back to truck or train at the other end of the ocean voyage.

Gap's financial control and expense discipline have been excellent, as seen in recent results, providing some comfort to the lenders, ... What is clear is that the problem and its solution lies with Gap's product offerings.

Gannett is of more of an expense story than revenue story, ... how the spike in costs are going to carry forward.

GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.

ICE is at the forefront of pursuing those who are engaged in human trafficking. We will continue working with our federal, state, and local partners in investigating, combating and bringing to justice the ruthless traffickers who have no regard for human life and whose only goal to profit at the expense of others.

I don't think the balance of the programming should be achieved at the expense of the one program that distinguishes us. Are we potentially slapping the man right in the face?

I am very pleased with our first-quarter performance, which reflects solid same-store sales growth and excellent expense control,

I appreciate his attitude about this. It was the most difficult thing I've had to do with this organization. Otis is a quality person and has a lot of integrity and character. It's just a business situation. We have to manage our business on the income and expense side.

I am very impressed with the company's commitment to building a strong brand. I think all too many brands, especially in the food industry, have focused on price incentives at the expense of branding. It is refreshing to see Emerald invest for the long run.

I am outraged, and I don't think the public is going to stand for it for one minute. It's a scheme to raise money at the expense of the national forests, the wildlife, recreation and all the other values that Americans hold dear. It's the ultimate threat to the national forest.

I fear that the failure to expense stock option grants has introduced a significant distortion in reported earnings,

However, all this came at the -- at the expense of personal freedoms.

Colleges and universities are really people-driven places. The bulk of the expense is in salary and benefits.

Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

Car-sharing is poised for explosive growth, as it enables consumers to save on the expense and hassle of car ownership, while reducing traffic and pollution.

Greater vehicle security is an asset for consumers, but security improvement should not come at the expense of placing motorists in an unsafe situation or forcing them to pay unnecessarily high prices to obtain replacement keys.

Gov. Bush says his approach to this issue is working. Environmentalists say that he has been captive to financial backers at the expense of the citizens of Texas.

For the balance of fiscal 2001, we are focusing on moderate top line sales growth with a very keen focus on gross margin enhancement and expense reduction,

You can't solve your problems at the expense of your neighbors, especially nearby and dear Poland, which is freezing.

Their legislation actually creates a singles penalty that I believe will be the subject of further debate ... their amendment lopsidedly favors those at the very top of the economic scale at the expense of the middle class,

The trouble with measuring the economic cost of obesity is that it's very difficult to determine whether someone incurred medical expense because they were fat, or because they had heart disease, or they had this or that.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travelers pay the expense of it.

This is monumental. This sets in motion the move to expense stock options. A while back this would have been a death wish on the part of the FASB but now the environment has changed.

All in all, a solid quarter, but with upside coming from expense control versus revenue upside, investors may be disappointed with these results, particularly in relation to peers,