Sentences with phrase «forcing businesses and consumers»

Even if one buys into the premise that the government should be forcing businesses and consumers to alter their behavior in the name of fighting climate change (or «oil dependency»), it is still an unavoidable conclusion that CAFE standards are absurd.

Not exact matches

«As industry lines blur and we enter the 5G era, consumers and businesses need a company with the disruptive culture and capabilities to force positive change on their behalf,» he added.

The FCC is forcing consumers and businesses to pay a huge price in order to boost the profits of telecommunications and cable companies.

If pork, wine, and other products lose sales to China, they could ultimately go out of business or be forced to charge higher prices when selling to businesses and consumers back here in the U.S.

The migration of Chinese consumers to online commerce and entertainment is squeezing traditional retailers, cinemas and other businesses, forcing them to improve service and add offerings.

«As industry lines blur and we enter the 5G era, consumers and businesses need a company with the disruptive culture and capabilities to force positive change on their behalf.»

«I'm excited to announce that @TMobile & @Sprint have reached an agreement to come together to form a new company — a larger, stronger competitor that will be a force for positive change for all US consumers and businesses!

Conservatives should be supportive of such innovations — consumer - supplied information can reduce reliance on regulation and enforcement by encouraging market forces that reward better business practices.

If pork, wine, and other products lose sales to China, they could ultimately go out of business or be forced to charge higher prices when selling to businesses and consumers back here in the US.

Those negative forces include a drop in demand for eurozone exports from emerging countries like China, unstable financial markets, and a decline in confidence among consumers and business managers.

Clearly consumer perception is the driving force for Tanger's brand equity and arguably the success of the brand is based upon the collection of brands within Tanger's highly scalable business enterprise.

It was reported that Greg Gonzales, Tennessee's top banking official, is now affiliated with a task force to assess the adoption of bitcoins and how to balance consumer protection legislation with free market innovation to benefit businesses and consumers.

The Livingston survey shows 55 per cent of small business and 60 per cent of medium - sized businesses will either be forced to pass down the cost of tariffs to consumers, making their businesses less competitive, or eat the cost and reduce their business investment.

She has been arrested 30 times for intentionally creating crises, i.e., situations that force the powers that are — transnational corporations, the media, security forces, consumers — to cease doing business as usual, examine the inequities that they may be perpetuating, and change policies.

The trend brought a change to consumers» buying habits and forced distributors such as The Best of Beers of Hickory, N.C., to start looking at business differently.

Mr Reitzer said trading conditions in the core grocery business remained challenging as frugal consumers shopped for value, deflation persisted in fresh food and the marketing war between Coles and Woolworths forced Metcash to spend more on advertising discounts.

While there is widespread support in the industry for cutting waste, and groups such as Marriott and All Bar One have already removed plastic straws from their businesses, many industry leaders are reluctant to back an initiative which would force consumers to pay more for their drink.

In spite of the decision by the 1982 jury, and the fact that antitrust laws were designed to promote free enterprise and competition for the benefit of business, employees and consumers, the NFL continues to lobby in Congress in hopes of obtaining limited exemption from antitrust laws, retroactively, thereby forcing the Raiders to return to Oakland and blocking other teams from moving in the future.

This, they said was hampering their businesses, and one of the reasons for the increase in prices of goods, as they are forced to pass on these costs onto the consumer.

«This proposal will cause some businesses to close and force some consumers to other surrounding counties.»

In a highly niched industry that often forces providers into vertical silos, we've managed to stay «horizontal» on two levels: 1) Delivering an elegant UI / UX for consumers who are trying to make sense of the noise, and 2) Providing an API for developers and analysts seeking a faster path to underlying data that drives their business.

He joined Southwest in 2003 as senior vice president of business development, where he led the Southwest school sales force and directed comprehensive sales and marketing plans, including corporate communications, community relations, advertising, consumer direct marketing and public relations, as well as the development and expansion of products and services.

[P] ublishers quickly realized that if market forces were allowed to prevail too quickly, these efficiency enhancing characteristics would rapidly lead to lower consumer prices, improved consumer welfare, and threaten the current business model and available surplus (profit margins).

In putting off big purchases, consumers force businesses to lay off workers which creates additional downward pressure on wages and on prices.

Consumer demand remains weak, forcing many businesses to cut labor costs and raise prices in an effort to remain profitable.

These laws were designed make it more difficult for consumers and businesses to file under Chapter 7 bankruptcy, under which most debts are forgiven (discharged), and instead be forced to file under Chapter 13.

By teaching consumers NOT TO SUPPORT PET SHOPS THAT SELL PUPPIES, it sends a message to the cruel & heartless puppy mills they are going to be forced out of business when the day comes that EVERY CONSUMER WISES UP and tells puppy mills to go to hell.

For platforms, I think Steam's inflexibility with custom business models and the forced nature of promoting Early Access titles as final SKU's on their storefront next to finished titles goes against the idea of providing developers safe ground to sell their game while in - development (while also sending conflicting messages to considering developers and consumers).

Well as you know, that world got blown up and the new democratised world of the enfranchised consumer and the occasional angry crowd has forced businesses (and the PR people and firms that advise them) to open up.

When the money will just be poured into the budget deficit, and the costs passed onto the consumer, possibly forcing some energy intensive business abroad.

Public policies and robust market forces are driving businesses to prioritize energy efficiency, consumers to put solar panels on their roofs and utilities to invest in wind farms.

This policy would force a lot of American consumer and business dollars to flow into the Soros» owned «cap & trade» energy solutions.

«These additional costs will either be passed on to consumers through increased food prices, or poultry farmers will be forced out of business,» warn the National Chicken Council and National Turkey Federation.

Just as it has in the past, consumer demands were a key driving force behind business innovation and the demand for legal tools accessible from anywhere with the power to collaborate with clients, opposing parties, etc., forced businesses and technology vendors to innovate and create those tools for law firms.

Violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act — Texas has a strong, consumer - oriented deceptive practices law, and business found guilty of violation of the Texas DTPA can be forced to pay treble damages and attorney's fees to a successful plaintiff.

When we force a vote on this bill, Republicans in Congress will — for the first time — have the opportunity to right the administration's wrong and show the American people whose side they're on: big ISPs and major corporations or consumers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners.

Meanwhile, the advent of lead - generation companies, which get referral fees for homebuyers and homesellers they find online, has forced real estate companies to retool their business models and step up efforts to find consumers early in the process.

REM: What do you see HomeLife providing to consumers and your sales force over your next 25 years in business?

Technological advances and consumer demand for increased convenience and service in the homebuying process are the driving forces behind the growth of innovative business development such as... one - stop shopping.»

These association health plan entities would inject competition into the market and force insurers to offer more affordable insurance plans to small businesses, says Gregory Scandlen, director of the Center for Consumer Driven Health Care.

The highly educated Canadian Consumer have failed to accept the discount business model forcing them to continually reduce their fees to try and compete.

By joining forces, Trulia and Zillow can accelerate our efforts to revolutionize the home search process for consumers, help professionals build their businesses and create additional value in adjacent markets.

The «balance of convenience» is in reality a balance that occurs naturally within a truely freely operating market economy wherein buyer / seller forces act automatically, over time, to right any actual and / or perceived wrongs that would be being experienced by consumers as they examined the benefits, or not, of dealing with business operations at play within said market place... with said market place being entirely devoid of bureaucratic socialistic pupetteering (before - the - fact of forcing the market to seek «its» interpretation of top - down derived equilibrium).

The successful full service stock brokers had to justify their fees and show value for what they were charging once the discounters came along, but many stock brokers could not show consumers they were anything more than a required conduit to the stock exchange to buy and sell stocks and were forced to leave the business.

Government should stay out of our business and let market forces decide what consumers want.

Some settlement agent commenters believed that implementing the Closing Disclosure would be a significant expense, would force them to raise fees on consumers, and could decrease settlement agent productivity and put small practitioners out of business.