41.   At the same time, manufacturers continue to compete on prices by holding down production costs and improving the efficiency of their plants and employees.

42.   At the same time, growing production costs are fostering new alliances, mergers and public offerings.

43.   Avondale, which beat back organizing drives in decades past, insists that unionization would hurt it by pushing up production costs and causing it to lose contracts.

44.   At the same time, companies that make things in Asia, including Digital, will benefit from lower production costs.

45.   Because of lower production costs, many entrepreneurs believe they can give free access to their publications, and support them by selling space for electronic ads.

46.   Bekaert could be vulnerable to a Kevlar tire if the production costs involved in its manufacture decrease.

47.   Biondi also said that he is concerned about rising production costs throughout the industry.

48.   Boesel tends to favor utilities with high production costs because he feels their stocks have been hurt excessively by the specter of deregulation.

49.   Blending different grapes lowers production costs, by giving the company a choice among a much bigger group of grape suppliers.

50.   Boeing has a number of advantages over Airbus, including lower production costs in the U.S.