Sentences with phrase «inflating costs for»

A foreclosure law firm in New York is accused in a federal lawsuit of overbilling Fannie Mae by inflating costs for mortgage - related services offered by its wholly owned affiliates.

What it does do is inhibit those clubs spending disproportionately on transfer fees and wages and inflating costs for all other clubs not all of which are backed by sovereign wealth funds.

The stores inflate costs for consumers by tens of thousands of dollars with various vague fees.

Public furor over StubHub's inflated costs for tickets to the Tragically Hip's farewell tour shows the risks of variable pricing.

In 2008, Express Scripts paid $ 9.3 million to settle a suit by New York and 28 other states that claimed it deceptively inflated costs for state employees, in part by secretly switching to higher - cost drugs, and that it allegedly pocketed millions in manufacturer rebates.

There are long lines, cramped seats and hotel rooms, and a la carte pricing that is leading to some pretty inflated costs for even the most basic travel arrangements.

Google will actually penalize advertisers who have a low score by inflating the cost for each click.

An average - charge program may not be used in a way that inflates the cost for settlement services overall.

The comment would have clarified that, if the creditor develops representative samples of specific settlement costs for a particular class of transactions, the creditor may charge the average cost for that settlement service instead of the actual cost for such transactions, and that an average - charge program may not be used in a way that inflates the cost for settlement services overall.

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That created an incentive for the operators to inflate costs in ways that allowed them to capture more of the project's value.

For the U.S., truck and rail costs inflated by about 50 percent, said David Sedney, a former Pentagon official who organized the alternative northern routes.

That cost can come two ways: some delivery companies slightly inflate the price for grocery items (as Urbery does, plus a delivery fee) and / or charge delivery fees from $ 3.99 to $ 9.99 (as in Instacart's case).

For enterprises, coin miners put corporate networks at risk of shutdown and inflate cloud CPU usage, adding cost.

Changes in power costs due to falling oil prices, meanwhile, can vary considerably by market and region, and, in many markets, gasoline prices are so inflated by taxation that the impact of lower oil prices for consumers is considerably dampened.

For example, in this chart, our marketer's key challenge is that their overall CPL (cost per lead) is being inflated by the amount of money they are spending to acquire leads through paid programs — implementing a solid content strategy could reduce the CPL.

Furthermore, the costs of new programs may be inflated for political reasons.

The one sector where costs have continued to inflate every year looks to be set for technology to have its deflationary effect.

Other similar things might be investing in supermarkets and «consumer staples» (because if your weekly shopping basket inflates, their shares and divis probably will too) or investing in healthcare as a hedge against future healthcare costs inflating or investing in utilities as a hedge against utilities bills rising (I've yet to buy any but I quite like the idea of owning enough ~ 7 % yielding Centrica for the divis to cover the gas and electricity bills) or investing in travel and tourism companies as a hedge against holiday costs inflating.

This urgency for efficiency stems from the inflated costs of labor in the United States when compared to Mexico.

CHEP benefits not only the environment, but it creates increased efficiency in cost reductions for Kirschenman, a crucial aspect in an inflated industry.

As soon as a club overspends once, they keep getting inflated prices, so the 5 — 10 mill, could end up costing 50 mill within a few years, and no club that exists for profit can afford to do that.

At current super inflated market rates, Macolm cost close to 50m while Lyon will not release Fekir for less than 50 as well

Remember we got an Academy and some players need to come from within our system I for one would be delightedly happier if the solution comes out from within rather than buying and putting money into agent pockets particularly when prices are inflated this inflation got to be burst before we all get bussed come on 100 milion for pogoba if thats the case what money is on messi or ronaldo or for the new messi and the new ronaldo you got to have limit this limitless soccer business got to stop some where and the monies got to filter down I like the premier league because all have equal opportunity but than you have guys like the moron morinho will just spend and get his player no matter what the costs are as I said they must be a limit and for that reason I salute MR wenger and the likes of Leicester

But, that is the difference between a system that works on government mandates and another that ask for inflated costs by the insured of private companies to make up for it.

Schools will report inflated costs in order to keep their reported profits lower, so they can cry poor when asking taxpayers and students for financial assistance.

To inflate costs, schools will charge their athletic programs for things like «overhead,» «university fundraising,» and even «library renovations.»

Walcotts looking for obscene wages but who can blame him for looking for 40/50 grand more than Squillachi, Chamakh, Bendtner and Diaby... question is how they are on 50 per week in the first place, ludicrous considering we cudnt give Song a payrise yet these guys who havnt merited any wage in my opinion are on drastically inflated wages, which also now makes it almost impossible to get rid of these guys as a result and they can now sit on their arses costing us a fortune and they leave for free at their contract end.

Lacazette, 25, is believed to be considered the most attainable target for the Gunners in an inflated market in which Juventus paid # 78m for Gonzalo Higuain and Romelu Lukaku would cost more than # 60m.

The Senate Republicans have pitched several inflated and often contradictory figures for the cost.

He also described the cost of the official residence being constructed for the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives as inflated.

«And it has yet to reveal the lifetime cost - fees, charges and fines that will inflate the price for anyone foolish or unlucky enough to find themselves prey to the government's ID regime.»

Pension costs can be controlled by limiting overtime and other salary inflating factors for the final three years of their employee's careers.

Although the cost has been inflated, you'd be hard - pressed to find a puzzle game of this calibre on PSN or Steam for just over a fiver.

The firm is never going to detail how the game's development budget was spent, so we'll never know for sure, but there are rumours circulating that Hideo Kojima called for major revisions of certain elements of the game, which may account for both the inflated cost of development and his strained relationship with the Konami bigwigs.

It will add new funding streams to the state's woefully under - funded pension plans, limit pension «spiking» whereby employees cash out vacation and sick leave to artificially inflate their benefits, raise the retirement age for current workers, limit annual cost - of - living adjustments, and allow a limited number of employees to choose a defined contribution plan over the traditional defined benefit.

But the EFA said that London Horizon's turnover was «significantly inflated» because it does not pay rent to DET for use of the school site, and charges the academy trust for pupils» swimming costs.

Not only does the annual outlay for master's bumps inflate demand for master's degrees, it understates the full financial and social cost of this traditional facet of teacher compensation in the following three ways:

Earlier this year in Missouri, a U.S. District Judge found that the cozy relationship between Imagine Schools and SchoolHouse Finance LLC «clearly constituted self - dealing» and ordered Imagine Schools to pay nearly $ 1 million for inflated rental costs.

While CEP is a valuable nutrition program, it makes FRPL functionally unusable as a proxy for counting low - income students and has the effect of artificially inflating FRPL rates in participating schools and districts because all students receive no - cost meals, regardless of family income.

It also comes with more of the features we look for in a car at a reasonable price, without making you get unnecessary items that inflate the cost.

Not only did it possibly result in sanctions from anti-trust violations, but it kept the ebook prices overly inflated to the end that reading consumers opted for print editions that had similar price points but that carried with them enormous printing and shipping costs meaning a smaller profit for the publisher.

The cost of an Audiobook are often drastically inflated and is a financial barrier for mainstream acceptance.

In an unregulated marketplace, where the same service can cost $ 500 against $ 15,000, for pretty much the same thing, depending on where you shop; where useless services are sold at inflated prices; where one large operation with many imprints, and controversial practices dominate the information stream, how do you know who to trust?

Adobe is currently receiving flack for selling software at inflated prices in Australia, where Creative Suite costs $ 1,400 more than in the US.

Because credit cards charge the highest interest rates of any type of consumer debt — typically about 18 % to 22 % — and allow borrowers to string repayments out for so long that it greatly inflates the cost of everything they buy.

It is unwise to use your credit card for everyday items like your morning coffee, groceries, and gas because you'ill end up paying interest on them which inflates their cost.

You should also look for a lender who will help absorb some of the costs of refinancing your mortgage - such as appraisal fees, attorney fees, and other fees that are tacked on that can inflate the amount of money that refinancing will cost you.

The increase in shorter - term lending costs may sound terrible for individual borrowers, but the Fed is unlikely to inflate the federal funds rate drastically over a short period of time.

Many rescuers and rescue groups I know will «poo - poo» this, saying that they have every right to ask for the money they do, but the fact remains that they are having trouble rehoming dogs because of the inflated costs and intrusive questions / home inspections they do.

I went back and forth between HP and PetPlan for a while, but here's why I went with HP: premium increases are based on inflating veterinary costs rather than PetPlan's «based on the age of your dog and average veterinary costs for your type of pet.»