1.   The systems also offer cost efficiencies in terms of easier administration and cheaper maintenance.

2.   Because of cost efficiencies, the large carriers, which in many cases own all or part of regional lines, are shifting business to them, Rodgers said.

3.   A forthcoming study by Peter Greenwood of the Rand Corp. attempts to measure the relative cost efficiency of prevention versus prison.

4.   Breaking them up would reduce some of the cost efficiencies and, thus, their value.

5.   Cost efficiency dwindles with increasing size.

6.   Falling prices account for much of the momentum behind the consolidation sweeping the natural gas business as companies seek greater cost efficiencies.

7.   In that era of city fiscal crisis, he advocated merger and regionalization of municipal hospitals to improve the quality of care and achieve cost efficiency.

8.   The company can still make money on those cars if it succeeds in harnessing its enormous size to produce cost efficiencies.

9.   The cost efficiencies are also considerable, Lack said.

10.   Typically, he targets a fragmented business like physical therapy and, by developing a network of facilities, achieves cost efficiencies unavailable to individual practitioners.