Sentences with phrase «government at fair market prices»
The Trust for Public Land was what is known as an «eco-profiteer:» an organization charged with buying private land at distress prices from rural owners, usually under threat of federal condemnation, then, with the help of huge lobbying efforts and insider congressional contacts, selling it to the federal government at fair market prices and taking a cut.
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India gives broad government food subsidies to its farmers and poor consumers — a benefit that has allegedly undercut fair - market agriculture prices and is at the heart of a World Trade Organization dispute that has irked the U.S.
While the government has sold land at fair market price to a few Christian groups, the Church of Pakistan has been unable to build because irate Muslims keep tearing down foundation stones, the most recent incident being the defacement of an inaugural marker unveiled by Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury in a spring 1990 visit.
Despite having Fair Tax Mark status, SSE lost marks in the Anti-Social Finance column for several reasons including criticisms of inflated prices and profiteering levelled at all the «big six» energy providers, from Ofgem, the government regulator for gas and electricity markets.