cost-cutting

Better discipline and aggressive cost-cutting seem to be helping Starbucks recover from the hit it took at the onset of the recession.

更严格的纪律性和尖锐的成本缩减似乎在帮助星巴克从经济衰退中恢复过来。

Sokol: NetJets Co-Founder Jim Jacobs said Sokols cost cutting has cost the company customers and left it a ? tiny shadow of what it was.

索科尔：NetJets的联合创始人雅各布斯（JimJacobs）说，索科尔削减成本使公司客户减少，并使前景略微蒙上阴影。

Xavier Niel, the entrepreneur, lost patience and launched one of his former lieutenants on an expeditious cost-cutting operation.

企业家XavierNiel失去了耐心，开始了启用他过去的一个副手，让其执行一个快速有效的减少报纸开支的计划。

The food cuts could be a harbinger to further cost-cutting; Deep Fried has heard that the building might be put up for sublease.

餐饮开支的削减只是一个更广泛成本削减的先兆，DeepFried已经听闻整栋大楼都将用于转租。

Cost cutting during a downturn is often necessary to ensure a company's current profitability and future competitiveness.

在经济下滑期间成本消减必须确保公司当前的可盈利性，以及将来的竞争力。

One of the most obvious changes is expected to be a less intense pursuit of cost-cutting, which the unions also blamed for the suicides.

预计一个最显著的变化是，法国电信将不再像此前那样大力寻求削减成本——工会认为这也是引发自杀潮的原因之一。

Lotito has always maintained that his cost-cutting measures were necessary to help the club out of their dire fiscal position.

洛蒂托一直坚持认为他的削减成本措施是有必要的，以帮助俱乐部摆脱悲惨的财政状况。

In spite of these cost-cutting measures, Mr Potter knows that, without help, the service could run out of cash by the end of the year.

尽管采取了这些削减开支举措，波特明白，如若得不到帮助，邮政业今年年底就会资金告罄。

The company reported that it has reduced its debt to $18. 9 billion through a combination of cost cutting and asset sales.

该公司公布说，通过削减成本和出售资产双管齐下，已经将债务减少到了189亿美元。

Eventually, there could even be a hybrid version of Zeta but cost-cutting may end up delaying the release of such a model.

最后，甚至有可能是一个混合版本的泽塔但削减成本最终可能推迟释放这种模式。

Instead, Fiat watched in despair as an effective cost- cutting programme was offset by slow sales, leaving four years of losses.

但菲亚特迎来的却是失望，有效的成本削减计划被缓慢的销售增长所抵消，导致公司四年出现亏损。

Toyota Motor is to reduce year-end bonuses for thousands of managers as part of a cost- cutting drive in response to plummeting sales.

丰田汽车（ToyotaMotor）计划减少数千名经理的年终奖，以此作为应对销售额暴跌的成本削减举措的一部分。

The bank laid off 260 employees in Seattle when it moved its call center to India as part of its cost-cutting initiative.

当该银行为了实施初步的节省成本措施而将其客服中心迁往印度时，他们解雇了西雅图260名职员。

Robert Gordon, of Northwestern University, reckons that the post-2001 acceleration was the result of cost-cutting, not innovation.

西北大学的RobertGordon则认为2001年后的上涨是削减成本的缘故，而非革新。

AFTER years of fat profits and bonuses, cost-cutting is once again at the top of the corporate agenda.

在经历了多年的巨额利润和红利后，削减成本再一次成为了各大公司议事日程中的头等大事。

By taking personal charge of the 111 cost-cutting initiatives promised by RBS, Sir Fred delivered greater savings than it had projected.

通过亲自负责苏格兰皇家银行承诺的111项成本削减计划，弗雷德爵士节省下来的成本超出了该银行的预期。

Only significant cost-cutting and a one-off change in its tax position stopped that loss from being bigger than it was.

唯有大幅削减成本以及税务状况的一次性转变，才能使损失不致于扩大。

In 2002 it withdrew from seven countries, including Bolivia, which had poor profit margins, in a cost cutting exercise.

在2002年，麦当劳因销售业绩不佳关闭了包括玻利维亚在内的七个国家的门店，以减少开支。

"I don't think I would say that cost-cutting was an issue, " he says. Lack of oversight?

“缩减开支？我不认为这是个问题，”他回答说。缺乏监督？

The scheme has none of the characteristics of a conventional corporate merger or cost-cutting drive.

此项计划不具备一般商业合并或是降低成本举措的任何特征。