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In its fiscal 2013 budget request, the agency notes that it's asking for about $128 million less than it got last year, including what it called a "cost-conscious" reduction of 25 jobs.

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The company 's desktop and laptop computers are priced similarly to high-end PCs, but many companies are reluctant to make the switch because Apple doesn' t offer cheaper products that cost-conscious businesses are looking for.

Apple Sees a Ripe Corporate Market Ian Sherr 2010

Mind you, we want poor people to be less cost-conscious when it comes to consuming healthcare, so in one obvious sense this is a strength of the French alternative.

On the Health Care Front, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

After initially dismissing the likelihood that consumers would "cut the cord" by turning off their pay-TV subscriptions, media executives are starting to acknowledge the need to sell smaller bundles of TV to lure younger, and more cost-conscious consumers.

Cable-TV Honchos Cry Foul Over Soaring Cost of ESPN Sam Schechner 2011

Meredith Corp. is adding two food magazines as it expands into a category the company says is ripe for targeting cost-conscious consumers.

Meredith Expands Its Menu Russell Adams 2011

Some cable and satellite executives argue that rising costs driven by fees for big networks like Fox could even tually have a similarly dire consequence: encouraging cost-conscious consumers to cut off their TV subscriptions altogether.

News Corp., Cablevision Dig in Heels in Fee Fight Sam Schechner 2010

One of the book's recurrent subplots involves the industry's focus on Pulitzer Prizes, with cost-conscious executives who prefer shorter and more local stories puzzled by editors' single-minded focus on the sort of expensive, multipart reporting projects that win prizes from their peers.

Newspaper Daze Matt Welch 2011

Companies such as Roche, Abbott and Eli Lilly are betting that the emphasis on diagnostics will enable them to produce more efficient and cheaper therapies that will satisfy cost-conscious and risk-averse watchdogs, who are constantly lifting the bar for approving new drugs.

Companies Aim to Personalize Therapy Goran Mijuk 2010

But in today's cost-conscious world the cutting edge concept car is a broader and more complex expression of a company's heritage, abilities and ambitions.

Dream Cars Matthew Master 2010

It encourages competition among private insurance plans and provides incentives for cost-conscious choices among plans by beneficiaries.

Medicare Reform: Obama vs. Ryan Daniel P. Kessler 2011