uncontrollable costs

Uncontrollable costs cannot be controlled or influenced by a conscious management action.

Of particular concern are so-called uncontrollable costs in areas like employee pension plans, health benefits, Medicaid spending and interest on debt.

By control ability: controllable, uncontrollable costs.

Action also occurs to reduce costs, increase return on investments, and to reduce dependency on uncontrollable costs.

These plans guarantee a fixed benefit, addressing both employees' insufficient contributions to 401(k)s and the uncontrollable costs of conventional defined benefit plans.

Siegel traces New York's devout faith in big-government paternalism to the sainted Fiorello La Guardia, who, he says, "left the city with uncontrollable costs."

"Even with all that, the budget was still an 8.9 percent increase," Dr. Hunderfund said, because of uncontrollable costs like contracted raises and increases in health insurance and pension costs.

With uncontrollable costs like our teachers' retirement fund that is increasing next year by 130 percent, and health insurance that is going through the roof, the money that we are getting from the state is nice but not enough."

Together, they negotiated almost to the point of tears with the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera, San Francisco Opera and Houston Opera but to no avail, always defeated by uncontrollable costs or the unavailablity of key singers.