71.   Other automakers are also shaking up their organizations to cut vehicle development costs.

72.   Parnon declined to provide details of the development costs or licensing terms.

73.   Previously, sliding-scale contracts forced investors to increase returns to the government as production increased, cutting into profits that offset development costs.

74.   Profit margins are generally too small to let them recover development costs.

75.   Property and banking stocks also fell on concern that rising development costs will hurt profits.

76.   Reducing product development costs.

77.   Research and development expenditure rose sharply because of clinical development costs that were previously borne by Sterling Winthrop.

78.   Saab also blamed currency damage and high development costs.

79.   Rising development costs, including an interest rate rise last July, eroded earnings as sales slumped due to oversupply.

80.   Setting up networks in several Asian cities would help the company recoup development costs and earn profits faster, analysts say.