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Mathews, the investigator, asked John Guide, the BP well team leader for the Macondo job, whether cost-consciousness colored decisions involving safety.
BP cost-cutting measures are focus of U.S. inquiry into gulf spill Joel Achenbach 2010
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Mathews, the investigator, asked John Guide, the BP well team leader for the Macondo job, whether cost-consciousness colored decisions involving safety.
BP cost-cutting measures are focus of U.S. inquiry into gulf spill Joel Achenbach 2010
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David Jones' management said recently that stores in its most affluent neighborhoods are seeing the biggest slowdown in sales, as cost-consciousness pervades even Australia's biggest spenders, a trend that's likely to continue given expected job cuts in the financial services sector.
David Jones's Premium Days May be Numbered Cynthia Koons 2011
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(Or, as Prof. Hacker rather drily observes, "Perhaps they will discover inner wellsprings of cost-consciousness we didn't know they had.")
RJ Eskow: Getting Health Reform Right: A Q&A With Jacob Hacker 2009
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Tisch, especially, has imposed a tough bottomline cost-consciousness that grates with many of the network's veterans.
Changing Channels 2008
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These advertisements and articles embraced thrift, presenting cost-consciousness as a virtue to be admired and desired by teenaged girls.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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Notorious for cost-consciousness, he forbade first-class flights and forced managers to find the cheapest hotels.
The Teflon Shield 2007
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We want to promote cost-consciousness by consumers and providers and universal coverage without deviating too far from our basic institutional structure.
Markets and Majorities Steven M. Sheffrin 1993
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If it works, Epps predicts the device could send a shiver of cost-consciousness through the industry.
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If it works, Epps predicts the device could send a shiver of cost-consciousness through the industry.
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