With its high fixed cost structure, UNOPS has found it difficult to operate smaller, transaction intensive services on the basis of full cost recovery.

Cost structure of the unified budget breakdown

The political cost is high.

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Cost structure of the unified budget, excluding contributions from the United Nations regular budget

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Any change in the value of the dollar therefore affects their cost structure and profitability.

Chilled slabs cost less per unit of surface area, and are more integrated with structure.

The cost in lives is already unbearably high.

Indeed, the wage increases of recent years have not changed the basic cost structure of Chinese companies.

China s rapid growth has been achieved at extremely high cost.

The human cost of these passages has been dramatically high.

Product bundling is most suitable for high volume and high margin (i.e., low marginal cost) products.

(b) Within market tolerance, increase managerial flexibility and alignment of structure with demand by converting fixed costs into project based variable costs where feasible, while containing the overall cost structure.

But the cost of not trying again could be extremely high.

We must also recognize the high cost of ignoring fragile States.

Many assume that the cost is so high because reconstruction is expensive.

Due to its high surface area and porous structure, drugs can be adsorbed from supercritical .

To keep the cost of storage acceptable, the geophysical exploration may be limited, resulting in larger uncertainty about the aquifer structure.

The Committee recommends that, given the cost of building and removing a temporary structure, full information be presented to the General Assembly on the relative costs and merits of constructing a permanent structure instead.

Peacebuilding has a high cost, which is generally spread out over several years.

The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.

Participants agreed to finance 380 high impact high visibility projects within the Interim Cooperation Framework, at an estimated cost of 750 million.

The challenge is to identify policy circuit breakers that have relatively high benefit cost ratios.

But for Lebanese it's the high cost of living that is haunting them the most.

Demonstrators are expressing their anger with the Palestinian Authority, with the high cost of living, and the high rate of unemployment among Palestinian youth.

But Barroso s punchline was that the cost is low compared to the high price of inaction.

Some were pushed there by the high cost of containing the damage from banks irresponsible behavior.

Hong Kong is notorious for its crowded living conditions and the high cost of residential housing.

But these operations are cross subsidising small, under performing portfolios and a high fixed cost base.

Conversion Sound has developed a high quality, ultra low cost digital hearing aid for the developing world.

We accept paying a high and inefficient cost for national defense against what are often unknown enemies.

Simply put, the current cost of pollution is too low, while the level of urgency is high.

The debate about austerity and the high cost of public debt is thus misleading on two accounts.

Making North Korea pay a high economic cost for its rash behavior should be considered as well.

(c) Helping to stop ongoing recidivism by high cost drug abusing offenders, through drug treatment court programmes

The Inspector concurs with the above points of view, but observes that the method used to compare procurement staff productivity and cost addresses more specifically the important issue of the overhead structure and cost, which is essentially the staffing and cost of the procurement function within the United Nations system in 2002.

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 9.5 per cent of estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 13 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 21.4 per cent of estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 24.3 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

(c) Increasing complexity of issues as regards methodology of cost of living application in two track benefits payable in countries in which there is high inflation, there are no cost of living data available, there is negative cost of living adjustment

However, the approach I built here is actually high resolution, low cost, and probably most importantly, very scalable.

The cost of the course was too high and was halted after the completion of only one course.

The deal with Amazon helped CBS to mitigate the high production cost of nearly 3 million per episode.

Any future course of action will need to address pricing accuracy and reduce the high fixed cost base.