The unions also charge that much of the current rhetoric about bloated costs is little more than standard posturing by management during tough contract talks.

The company has been plagued by delayed shipments, bloated costs and the inability, after two seasons of big hits, to do it again.

Thanks to more flexible labor rules, he plans to slash bloated costs by laying off 1,000 of Planeta's 5,500 workers.

Hollywood, in fact, may be among the last American industry to come to grips with bloated costs because it still has little incentive to do so.

The company attributed its continued earnings problems to bloated costs, competitive pricing for personal computers and slow sales growth.

After 10 years of trying to save money by spending less on care, they hope to squeeze savings from their bloated administrative costs.

Unquestionably, an industrial restructuring is under way, and it is expected to force companies to reduce their bloated costs.

The system had a reputation for bloated costs and sometimes substandard care.

It would not think to tie payments to managed care plans to the bloated costs of running fee-for-service.

Yet some of the wage disparity results from bloated costs hiding behind protective trade barriers.