Sentences with phrase «new pricing practices»

You may never face a class action, but it's worth the investment to have a conversation about it — particularly if you're exploring new pricing practices.

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And worries «that the prices of Bitcoin and other digital tokens have been artificially propped up by a widely used exchange called Bitfinex, which has a checkered history of hacks and opaque business practices,» the New York Times reported.

The practice means that each new year's grants tend to end up being potentially more valuable than the previous year's, just because stock prices tend to drift higher over time.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

The chain found that rounding prices moved lines along quicker, and they started implementing the practice earlier this summer without telling customers — until a keen - eyed New Jersey resident noticed his receipts weren't adding up.

SHANGHAI / HONG KONG, Aug 7 (Reuters)- China fined six companies including Mead Johnson Nutrition Co, Danone and New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra a total of $ 110 million following an investigation into price fixing and anti-competitive practices by foreign baby formula makers.

We picked up a used exersaucer and a new Fisher - Price Space Saver Jumperoo that they're not quite heavy enough to really bounce in yet at 15 lbs; but they can practice standing, reach up for the toy bar, and push the buttons to make music.

New York regulators are seeking to ban education and occupation as factors in determining how much consumers pay for car insurance, tackling a long - controversial pricing practice across much of the U.S.

The IDC worked to put the brakes on bad practices in the subprime auto industry to protect consumers, some of whom are stuck paying the price of a new car for a junker because of the terms of the loan.

«These provisions could threaten everything from Buy America contracting provisions to New York State's ban on hydro - fracking and setting discounted prices for vital prescription drugs to regulations to protect consumer from noxious financial industry practices,» they wrote.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (co-editor with Martin R. West) The Future of School Choice (editor) Our Schools and our Future (editor) City Limits The Urban Underclass (co-edited with Christopher Jencks) Price of Federalism Welfare Magnets (with Mark C. Rom) The New American Democracy (with Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer) Four of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association.

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A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

The agreements with Simon & Schuster and Harper - Collins break from Amazon's practice of holding the price of popular new titles down to 9.99 dollars each, according to the newspaper.

Likewise, Mr. Jobs later informed an executive of one of the Publisher Defendant's corporate parents that «[a] ll major publishers» had told Apple that «Amazon's $ 9.99 price for new releases is eroding the value perception of their products in customer's minds, and they do not want this practice to continue for new releases.»

While each Publisher Defendant recognized that it could not solve «the $ 9.99 problem» by itself, collectively the Publisher Defendants accounted for nearly half of Amazon's e-book revenues, and by refusing to compete with one another for Amazon's business, the Publisher Defendants could force Amazon to accept the Publisher Defendants» new contract terms and to change its pricing practices.

He will develop company - wide strategies, policies, and best practices for all our domestic and international publishing units in areas ranging from terms and pricing to digital rights management, technology platforms and new business models.

ResultSource, a company that doesn't even attempt to hide its purpose in allowing authors to buy their way onto the New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, including upon debut for the right price, is coming under fire for this practice.

What's new is legacy publishers now getting in on it and trying to rewrite established practices, including pricing, which Nick also mentioned.

And, while now book discounting is an expected practice, in 1975 B&N became the first bookseller in America to sell books below publisher's established list prices by offering New York Times bestsellers at 40 % off.

The Ontario government took aim at this deceptive practice with a new law last year: it prevents unsavoury agents from trying to drive up a home's selling price or motivating a buyer to pull the trigger on a purchase.

Each week you'll receive a new article with tips and tricks from experts on running your credit repair business, pricing, best practices and more.

The bond ETF is an exciting new addition to the bond market, offering an excellent alternative to self - directed investors who, looking for ease of trading and increased price transparency, want to practice indexing or active bond trading.

The Bottom Line The bond ETF is an exciting new addition to the bond market, offering an excellent alternative to self - directed investors who, looking for ease of trading and increased price transparency, want to practice indexing or active bond trading.

The price of commodities, options, indices, etc. are updated in real time, and identifying trends in such a way that you can make a profit is difficult for everyone, especially people who are new to the practice.

When your practice is certified, you not only receive discounted individual certification pricing, but you also qualify for a complimentary toolkit of promotional materials that will help you promote your new certification to your clients.

While the industry is new to embracing the practice, some industry observers think the idea of using crowdsourcing and bounties could be useful for loyalty marketers because their programs could face risk from hackers and opportunistic users who exploit flaws in points - awarding practices or pricing specials.

In what appeared to be acknowledgement of consumer confusion about credit card terms, Chase Card Services also announced it would implement new «clearer pricing practices.»

Each pioneered new approaches to their favored mediums, and today their groundbreaking works are heralded in museums the world over, garner record prices on the auction block, and continue to influence emerging practices.

Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern, London, by Ben Street Leigh Ledare at Office Baroque, Brussels, by Sam Steverlynck Jean - Luc Moulène at Chantal Crousel, Paris, by Violaine Boutet de Monvel Dan Attoe at Peres Projects, Berlin, by John Quin Candida Höfer at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, by Siona Wilson Reinhard Mucha at Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, by Barbara Casavecchia Fabio Mauri at Madre, Naples, by Mike Watson Natascha Sadr Haghighian at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, by Stefanie Hessler Jos Näpflin at Counter Space, Zürich, by Aoife Rosenmeyer Marion Verboom at The Pill, Istanbul, by Nicole O'Rourke Mustafa Hulusi at Dirimart, Istanbul, by J.J. Charlesworth Monica Bonvicini at Baltic, Gateshead, by Laura Smith Gillian Lowndes at The Sunday Painter, London, by Chris Fite - Wassilak Huma Bhabha at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, by Oliver Basciano Bruce McLean at Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, by Mark Prince Ken Price at Hauser and Wirth, London, by Kiki Mazzucchelli Thomas Struth at High Museum of Art, Atlanta, by David Everitt Howe Ciprian Muresan at Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, by Ciara Moloney Fred Eversley at Art + Practice, Los Angeles, by Jennifer Li Mosquitoes, Dusts, and Thieves at 47 Canal, New York, by Owen Duffy Dineo Seshee Bopape at Art in General, New York, by Owen Duffy peter campus, circa 1987 at Cristin Tierney, New York, by Joshua Mack Jimmy Wright at Fierman, New York, by Ashton Cooper Johan Grimonprez at Sean Kelly, New York, Jonathan T.D. Neil SANGREE at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, by Kim Córdova Pablo Accinelli at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, by Claire Rigby The Universe and Art at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, by Adeline Chia

Students gather in the gallery with Marshall N. Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, who has taught the undergraduate course History and Theory of Curatorial Practice, part of the new Concentration in Museum Theory and Practice, a collaboration between the Nasher Museum and Duke's Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.

Gernot Wagner co-authored a new working paper that offers lessons from risk - management practices used in investing in cutting through debates about the present value of limiting future climate risk: «Applying Asset Pricing Theory to Calibrate the Price of Climate Risk,» by Kent D. Daniel, Robert B. Litterman, and Gernot Wagner (National Bureau of Economic Research).

We estimate that gas spot prices in New England over the period from August 2013 to July 2016 were 38 percent higher due to these scheduling practices.

· Listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale; · Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails; · Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business; · Responding to incoming email and phone inquiries; · Acting as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets; · Gathering market and customer information; · Representing the company at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations; · Negotiating on price, costs, delivery and specifications with buyers and managers; · Advising on forthcoming product developments and discussing special promotions; · Creating detailed proposal documents, often as part of a formal bidding process which is largely dictated by the prospective customer; · Reporting to Senior Management on sales and potential opportunities in your area; · Reviewing your own sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets; · Gaining a clear understanding of customers» businesses and requirements; · Following up with customers for payment; · Doing Quality - Control on products delivered; · Attending team meetings and sharing best practices with colleagues in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

No evidence exists that New England local gas distribution companies engaged in practices to withhold natural gas pipeline capacity on the Algonquin system to drive up gas or power prices in the region, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff revealed.

If such technology were used by CanLII, in addition to legal opinions, from its large databases of materials, other revenue - producing products would be developed for each major area of law and practice, such as: (1) a priced catalogue of the standard memoranda, which would be advertised in legal publications; (2) a service that summarizes new decisions, statutory amendments, and significant law journal articles; (3) a newsletter for each major area law and practice; and, (4) specialized databases and projects such as databases of model factums and average sentences and settlements.

I wrote yesterday about the price increase announced by the cloud - based practice management platform Clio, but there was lots of other practice - management news coming out of LegalTech New York last week.

Incubators are not mandatory, but they allow for new law graduates to gain practice experience in a supervised environment — often for a price.

Take a law firm for instance... (T) here is a disincentive for lawyers to act in a way that assures the long - term interest of the firm, because acting in the long - term interests of the firm will reduce the amount of money that each lawyer makes in the short term... And success further compounds the problem... (E) ach successful year perpetuates a sense that this is the correct model... This gives law firms a distorted sense of reality... (where) greed rather than proper business practice, is driving pricing to clients... (and creates) a firm that (will) be blown apart by the greed of a new group of partners... years from now (pp. 115 - 16).

Modern law firms believe the new way of exceptional client service and profitable law practice, is bound with alternative pricing methods.

Prevailing wisdom counsels against competing for clients on price, but I'm not so sure that's an appropriate course of action for new solos trying to get their practice up and running.

Ideally the two would go hand in hand: new tools would make the practice of law more efficient and would also enable a new type of price structure.

Value Pricing — A New Way to Run Your Practice — FREE Webinar January 15, 2014 · Posted in Marketing, ProAdvisor, QuickBooks Consulting, Start or Grow Your Business, Tools & Resources, Webinars — See more at: http://longforsuccess.com/2014/01/15/value-pricing-new-way-run-practice-free-webinar/#sthash.pzDpaaGq.dpuf

As Mike Pearson, co-chairman of Jackson Walker LLP's energy practice group, said, «since the end of 2014, with the collapse in commodity prices, we have seen new drilling activity dry up almost completely.

How do Clio's new prices compare to other practice management platforms?

2016 April «New Approaches to Pricing and Legal Procurement» by Jim Shoemaker and John Ferko (ABA Law Practice Today) >> READ ARTICLE

Known within the auto insurance industry and investigatory agencies, «price optimization» is a practice by which insurers use a high - tech data - mining tool to identify loyal policyholders who are potentially the least likely to shop for a new insurance carrier — then charge them more for that loyalty.

Bartender managers also update staff members regarding new laws about the sale of liquor and tobacco, monitor daily stocks, perform price checks; review inventory; implement and control all bar procedures and practices; handle waste disposal; and established physical presence at the bar.