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expense and operating

Attention
to details can
cut in half
the size unit you need
and pare
operating expense proportionately
.

Balancing can
be difficult
and expensive
, and is normally done only when
operating tolerances are such that
the effort
and the expense are justified
.

Hill avoided this by investing
a large portion of
the railroad's profit back into
the railroad itself —
and charged those investments
to operating expense.

Printers that have this issue have
a replaceable " waste toner bin ", which
is another periodic
operating expense.

Due
to their poor color quality
and increased
operating expense, color impact models never replaced their monochrome counterparts
.
The economics of automated trains tend
to reduce
the scale so tied
to " mass " transit
( the largest
operating expense is the driver's salary
, which
is only affordable if very large numbers of passengers are paying fares ), so that small-scale installations are feasible
.

Many believed privately owned power companies were charging too much for power
, did not employ fair
operating practices
and were subject
to abuse by their owners
( utility holding companies ), at
the expense of consumers
.

KKM & D earned $ 152
. 7 million
in 2003
, which made up 31 percent of sales
, with a reported
operating margin of 20 percent or higher
, but these mark-ups were largely at
the expense of its franchisees
.

Whether it
is the goal or
a necessary condition
, understanding how
to make sound financial decisions based on throughput
, inventory
, and operating expense is a critical requirement
.
The primary measures for
a TOC view of finance
and accounting are: throughput
, operating expense and investment
.

Goldratt adapted three
operating level performance measures — throughput
, inventory
and operating expense —
and adopted three strategic performance measures — net income
, return on investment
, and cash flow —
to maintain
the change
.

Bias can move
the diode's
operating point higher on
the detection curve
to produce more signal voltage at
the expense of less signal current
( higher impedance ).
The county courthouse
, built by William Johnson
in Johnstown
in 1772
, partly at his own
expense, still stands today
, as
the oldest
operating courthouse
in New York
.

Three factors were largely responsible:
the difficulty
and expense of developing
and operating mining technology that could economically remove
the nodules from depths of five or six kilometers
and transport them
to the ocean surface
, the high taxes
the international community would charge for
the mining
, and the continuing availability of
the key minerals from land-based sources at market prices
.

* Optimizing
the valve timing
to improve burning efficiency-usually this increases power at one range of
operating RPM at
the expense of reducing it at others
.
The move also saved Amtrak
the expense of
operating two stations
in New York
.
( c
) a petroleum
and gas revenue tax of 8 per cent applied
to net
operating revenues before royalty
and other
expense deductions on all production of oil
and natural gas
in Canada ...;

Because
the railroad experienced cost overruns
in Kenya
, the British decided
to justify its exceptional
expense and pay its
operating costs by introducing large-scale European settlement
in a vast tract of land that became
a center of cash-crop agriculture known as
the " White Highlands
.

Some recirculating systems reduce standby loss by
operating only when hot water
is expected
to be needed
, at
the expense of
greater system complexity
.

Total
operating expenses for fiscal year 2010
, including depreciation
expense, were approximately $ 86
. 9 million
.

However
, being less efficient than public power
, they increase
operating expense and are
a source of pollution
( atmospheric
, acoustic
, etc
.

This fault-tolerance sets
the alias apart from similar functions
in some other
operating systems
, such as
the Unix symbolic link or
the Microsoft Windows shortcut
, at
the expense of increased complexity
and unpredictability
.
The Company was not inclined
to involve itself
in further
expense for colonization
, and matters threatened
to come
to a halt
, when someone — very likely van Rensselaer himself — evolved
the plan of granting large estates
to men willing
to pay
the cost of settling
and operating them
.
expense and budget
The police pursue THX up an escape ladder
, but are ordered by central command
to cease pursuit
, mere steps away from capturing him
, as
the expense of his capture exceeds their pre-determined
budget.

Although PCMCIA was similar
in spirit
to Commodore's expansion architecture for its earlier systems
, the intended capability for convenient external expansion through this connector was largely unrealized at
the time of release because of
the prohibitive
expense of PCMCIA peripherals for
a budget home computer
.

As
a conservative Republican
and a financier
, Mellon was irritated by
the manner
in which
the government's
budget was maintained
, with expenses due now
and rising rapidly
, with the failure of income or revenues
to keep pace
with those
expense increases
, and with the lack of savings
.
The budget of
the organising committee showed
a cost of £ 15
, 000 ; over one-third was labeled " entertainment
expense ".

*
The MZ ETZ 250
and 251 are currently being used
in club racing around Britain
, providing
budget racing for those who want
to race
with all of
the fun but less of
the expense.

# Expenditure Effect Buyers are more price sensitive when
the expense accounts for
a large percentage of buyers ’ available income or
budget.
The West Stand cost £ 45
, 000 while
the East Stand went far over
budget and ended up costing £ 130
, 000
, mainly thanks
to the expense of
the facade
.

By
the mid-1960s
, Powell was increasingly being criticized for mismanaging his committee's
budget, taking trips abroad at public
expense, and missing sittings of his committee
.
The department is allocated an
expense budget and a capital
budget.
The expense budget covers
the total expenses incurred by
the agency
, including salaries
.

On September 22
, 1972
, the school received from
the U
. S
. Department of Health
, Education
and Welfare
, for payment of $ 1
, a site
in Astoria that had formerly been
the U
. S
. Army Pictoral Center
, with the intention of moving
the college
to a campus on
the new site
, but when
the city's
budget crisis hit
in 1974
, the site had
to be sold off
, as
the expense of maintaining it
in the interim was too high
.
The money used
to pay
the debt came from unallocated funds from
the Assembly's previous
budget and it was said by
the Minister for Heritage
, Rhodri Glyn Thomas
, that
the new money allocation would not come at
the expense of other art projects from other parts of Wales
.

; Community
and Family: People are increasingly choosing consumerism over family welfare
, that
is: consumption over fertility ; debt over family
budget discipline ; fiscal advantage
to oneself at
the expense of community welfare
.

Another important change was that
the frequency of scheduled sessions of
the legislature
( and hence
the budget cycle
) was altered from biennial
to annual
, though
the General Assembly
is still limited
to a total of fifteen organizational days
and ninety legislative days every two years ; sessions extending beyond this
( and special sessions extending beyond twenty legislative days
) result
in the legislature being unable
to continue
to receive its
expense per diem
.

Since
the state
( and ultimately
the ship's insurers
) bore
the expense of
the passenger ferries
and shuttle services
, some commuters found
budget savings
in their commuting expenses as
a meaningful offset
to the inconvenience
.

In 1997
, the program reached 44 382 children of 22
. 493 families
, with an
expense of R $ 32 million
, or
in other words less than 1 % of
the budget of
the Federal District
.

Hart had
to postpone
the cyclopedia
, and he asked
the Association for research
and clerical staff
, but
the Executive Committee of
the Roosevelt Memorial Association delayed appropriations for
the cyclopedia
, because
the expense was " so great ,"
and it was not until May 1928 that
a budget was approved for
the cyclopedia
, although
the project had been publicly announced years before
.

This
is partly because
the recent additional member states of
the EU
, which are considerably poorer than
the 15 pre-2004 states
, will
be a considerable
expense on
the CAP
and the EU
budget in general
.

Child care
is the largest
expense in this
budget, followed by housing
, taxes
, and food
.

On February 11
, 2008
, Benedict Fitzgerald filed
the lawsuit against Mel Gibson
and the production company Icon Productions
, alleging
the unfair deprivation of compensation
and deception on
the overall
expense of
the film production
budget after
the blockbuster box office success of
the film
The Passion of
the Christ
, including but not limited
to " fraud
, breach of contract & unjust enrichment " seeking unspecified damages
.

At
a budget of almost $ 1 billion it ranks second only
to the Toronto Transit Commission
( TTC
) in city budgetary
expense.

Safety Camera Partnerships must bid annually for funding
to council
budget holders along
with other local authority funded organisation for carry out their operations ;
the funding
, while
a road safety grant can
be used for any local authority
expense that
is not connected
to road safety
, ring-fencing of local authority funds not being allowed
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