Sentences with phrase «jacking up costs»

So you're jacking up the costs for the long - term holders.

Evidence suggests higher prices may not be the best way to make more money in the digital literature market, but publishers may have other reasons for jacking up costs.

The good news is, Amazon and e-reader rivals like Kobo could build TTS and navigational marvels into the next generation of E Ink machines without significantly jacking up the costs.

Now, an average of one in six items dumped in blue bins is not recyclable, gumming up processing facilities and jacking up costs.

This, despite the system impeding trade deals with Europe and Asia while jacking up the cost of groceries for Canadians.

A couple of checks and balances exist or have been introduced to ensure that TV providers don't jack up the cost of individual channels too high.

Minutes after Clinton released her statement, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that «greedy» pharmaceutical companies which jack up costs «often do real damage to their reputation» during a media briefing (while declining to «second guess» Mylan's specific pricing strategies).

It was 2015 when Martin Shkreli, then CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and the notorious «pharma bro,» jacked up the cost of the lifesaving drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent.

They don't necessarily have to include video components, which can really jack up the cost (and, ironically, lower the quality) of multimedia shows for books.

Those concerned that 3G functionality will jack up the cost of the system were both proven right and put at ease with -LSB-...]

Given the amount of equipment the system is going to come with, the two game pads and now the pro controller, this is sure to jack up the cost.

Claims jack up your cost of insurance.

It's a shame not to be able to crank the graphics up on this gorgeous game, but one doesn't expect to run Crysis: Warhead — one of the most visually sophisticated shooters ever made — at full steam without a pair of top - of - the - line cards and lots of speedy memory, which will jack up the cost of any machine to a couple grand or more.

The jacked up cost can be attributed to its improved specs.

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It could be in fact not buying more U.S. Treasurys or selling some U.S. Treasurys they currently hold, jacking up our borrowing costs.

And no, we can't just jack up prices and pass the additional cost along to customers.

The cost estimate of the second phase remains at $ 8.9 billion and is not at risk of being jacked up by the same factors that affected the first.

Going in with Jurvetson was a lineup of household - name investors that includes Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jack Welch; their money will be used to build up Memphis Meats» already formidable trove of intellectual property and to fine - tune the process of combining cells to produce the tastiest steaks and patties, and drive down the cost.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's budget proposal includes jacked - up costs for business licenses and stricter noncompliance penalties.

As Warren Buffett and Jack Bogle can attest the cost of fees adds up over time and will make (or break) a successful investment or retirement plan.

The B.C. Liberals told British Columbians one thing about the cost of the B.C. Place roof throughout the election campaign, only to turn around and jack up the budget by 58 per cent:

If we continue to require insurance companies to pay for more and more, they will just continue to jack up the rates making the cost of insurance more of a financial hardship than it already is.

Yet, they want to reward the over-rated - injury - prone Jack Wheelchair, with a new deal that will end up costing the fan's # 31 million!?

Jack Wheelchair has signed a new contract, Which will end up costing the club just over # 30 million his weekly wages will rise to # 110,000.

Every year, the R.G.B., like a rubber stamp, votes to jack up rents, as landlords, following script, complain about rising heating oil costs, property taxes, and other charges.

Even if surgery doesn't cost YOU a dime due to healthcare coverage, every surgery performed that isn't entirely necessary jacks up healthcare spending.

And i do nt mean smart boards and little gadgets that are specialized to one thing so they can jack the costs up.

Unlike the standard business model that has automakers jacking up the sticker price to compensate for the extra cost of a hybrid system, the MKZ Hybrid starts at $ 35,180 — exactly the same price as a base MKZ with the 3.5 - liter V - 6.

Jacked - up new Octavia variant offers all - wheel drive and rugged looks, and will cost from # 25k when order books open later this month

I know authors who use indie presses and the cost of buying copies of their books from the indie is so high, they can't make a profit on their copies unless they jack up the price to a point where it drives potential customers away.

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I don't buy paper anymore and the rising costs of ebooks have already made me give up on Patricia Briggs, Jack Campbell, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and many, many others.

However, as always tends to happen with new technology, people are jacking prices up tremendously (remember when DVD players used to cost $ 1000)?

2) Of the 44 jack - ups currently under construction, 6 will have lower mobility costs in the Gulf and they have a higher specification (p. 15 of 10 - K).

But the opposition parties warn it's a ticking time bomb that will herald a new wave of public sector job cuts and provoke a downgrade of Ontario's debt rating, jacking up borrowing costs that are already consuming about $ 11 billion a year — its fourth - largest expense.

MONTREAL — Canadian snowbirds who were lucky enough to escape property damage from hurricane Irma will still face higher costs as insurance providers jack up premiums and condo associations levy special assessments, say Florida insurance experts.

«I will continue to use Woodland Animal Hospital due to the care and concern the staff had for Jack, quick diagnosis and remedy, ease of scheduling appointments, being presented a cost estimate upfront, and the follow - up provided.

My Jack Russell has bad teeth and has had one dental surgery which cost $ 500.00 and was due a second because of the plaque build - up.

add on shots, health check, spay / neuter, etc., and that price is jacked up without you realizing that many vets do all that either for free or at a greatly reduced cost, (it's a tax deduction as charity), yet the cost of what it would have been is passed on to the consumer.

It seems Activision Blizzard isnt happy with what games cost now and would like to jack the prices up.

It's a challenge because greens advocate carbon taxes and cap - and - trade, which are designed to jack up gas prices, and biofuel mandates, which have the unintended (although not unforeseen) consequence of inflating fuel costs.

Just for kicks, we jacked up the rate of return up to five percent and returned to the Cost - Benefit sheet.

It is possible to build wind turbines without rare earth elements, but doing so increases the complexity, decreases reliability, and jacks the generator weight up, which in turn means all the support structures have to be more massive, all of which results in higher cost.

It's not just high performance that jacks up the rates though, a sky - high sticker price and the accompanying repair costs also impact premiums.

Often the premiums are jacked way up or the policy is cancelled, and when the customer looks elsewhere for coverage, they may find it costs them three times what they were paying.

You can argue that you've had no moving violations in ten years, and that may be true, but you're costing your auto insurance company money and that's never a good thing — simply because they'll get their money back by jacking up your premiums.

Some of these fees — to name a few — are disguised as: processing fees, or, handling fees, or service fees which in turn, jacks - up the price of the Florida Driver License Permit final cost.

I had Jack King come in @ 7 am and blow out almost 1500 ft of terrible tile, they were cleaned up and gone by 9:30, but it cost $ 3k to remove that.

There could be gaps that you can't see and that can jack up your energy costs.

Cost me $ 500 to pay a leak sniffer to find the leak and another $ 2500 to jack hammer up the slab and fix the leak.