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Lately pharma execs have been taking yet another volley of criticism over drug - pricing practices from Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio — and plenty of others — without offering much in the way of a defense.

Not exact matches

But retail consultant Ron Friedman, co-leader of Marcum's retail and consumer products practice, says Walmart «runs the risk of alienating customers» if the prices online are much different from at the stores.

Short - selling is the practice of borrowing stock and selling it at the current market price but paying for it later, on the expectation that the price will fall; it's a way of profiting from a stock's decline.

The company is already paying a price for its practices in London, where the company was banned from operating due to safety and regulatory concerns.

«Unfortunately, the Commerce Department decision is divorced from this reality and ignores long - standing business practices in the aerospace industry, including launch pricing and the financing of multibillion dollar aircraft programs,» the company said in a statement.

In a recently released study, Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice, the IMF calculates what it considers to be the appropriate level of fuel taxes (a carbon tax by any other name) for 156 different countries.

AlixPartners» retail practice director, Noam Paransky, said shoppers have saved about $ 100 billion from low gas prices since last year, but middle - and low - income shoppers are holding on to those savings or spending on travel and entertainment.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»).

We buy businesses directly from their sellers at a reasonable price using simple and prudent financing structures, incentivize management through stock ownership, and enable managers to run and grow their businesses through good business practices and through acquiring other businesses in their industry.

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.

We hypothesize that, having learned from the misadventures of the 1960s, the policy elites, well versed in the practice of financial engineering and market manipulation, would have seen no need to dump stocks of government gold reserves onto the market, 1960s style, to keep the price in check.

One possible explanation for Mr. Pearson's performance emerged two days later, when Valeant disclosed that it had received subpoenas from federal prosecutors asking for information about its business practices, including its drug pricing decisions.

However in practice repos (and reverse repos) are practically equivalent to securitized loans, where the security that's temporarily «sold» serves as collateral to secure a loan from the purchaser to the buyer of an amount equal to the purchase price, and the difference between that price and the later, «repurchase» price is the interest on the loan.

Now, if market participants were to shift to a passive approach in the practice of asset allocation more broadly — that is, if they were to resolve to hold cash, fixed income, and equity from around the globe in relative proportion to the total supplies outstanding — then we would expect to see a similarly positive impact on the market's absolute pricing mechanism, particularly as unskilled participants choose to take passive approaches with respect to those asset classes in lieu of attempts to «time» them.

ACCUSATIONS that Australia's two grocery giants, Coles and Woolworths, engaged in improper practices to force down prices from suppliers are being investigated by the nation's most powerful competition regulator.

The Bill was designed to «end the anti-competitive practice of geographic price discrimination, which can potentially drive independent retailers out of the market or deter them from cutting prices» by requiring large retailers «to charge the same price at any location that is within 35 kilometres of another of their sites»

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«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.

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«Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations» (Springer, 2015) presents practices and implementation experiences from many countries that face water scarcity conditions similar to those faced by California and elsewhere, and introduces a wide set of water - pricing methods that California agencies might consider as they address the state's historic dPricing Experiences and Innovations» (Springer, 2015) presents practices and implementation experiences from many countries that face water scarcity conditions similar to those faced by California and elsewhere, and introduces a wide set of water - pricing methods that California agencies might consider as they address the state's historic dpricing methods that California agencies might consider as they address the state's historic drought.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

Additional country - level data on emissions and the damage they cause have also become available, as detailed in a more recent IMF book, Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice.

Every component of agriculture — from prices to plant pollinators and crop pests — exhibits complex relationships to climate, depending on the location, weather variability, and agricultural and economic practices and policies.

This is an invaluable gift and you can't put a price tag on all the benefits you can reap from this beautiful practice.

At the height of his career, the practice included several dentists on the first floor and a laboratory on the second floor where Mr. Howdy, a chemist of German origin, performed analyses for fat - soluble activators in hundreds of samples of butter and other foods sent to Dr. Price from all over the world.

If you are thinking about incorporating eLearning practices in your training and development strategy, but are unsure of how much it will end up costing, your first step should be requesting an eLearning price quote from an eLearning vendor.

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

From this point forward, more and more states may reason that ACT is likelier to have its tests ready to go come spring 2015 at a price that is certain and without all of the potential problems inherent in a multi-state procurement - practice - policy initiative.

Editor's note: This piece by Olga Acosta Price is adapted from Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning: Research and Practice, now available from Guilford Press.

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One notoriously dodgy practice is to offer the author a relatively low price for complete production services, but then to retain most of the revenue from sales, and even the rights.

This agency model overtook Amazon's practice of buying books at a discount from publishers and then setting its own price for e-reader devices.

While obviously not illegal and even supported by apps that are designed specifically to let consumers scan a barcode with their smartphones in order to compare prices from online retailers, the practice itself is fairly shameful.

I think some of the stupidity from Barnes & Noble practices has rubbed off on the Amazon side as this makes no freaking sense at all especially at this price.

They cited Amazon's anti-competition practices — their stance, not mine — such as removing MacMillan titles from sale because Amazon wanted to sell books at «unsustainable prices» back in 2010.

If you are launching the book with a free promotional period, it's common practice to price your book at 0.99 immediately after the promotional period to benefit from the increased interest, before eventually upping the price to the full retail amount when enough reviews have accumulated.

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.

This Section V.F shall not prohibit a Settling Defendant from communicating (a) in a manner and through media consistent with common and reasonable industry practice, the cover prices or wholesale or retail prices of books sold in any format to potential purchasers of those books; or (b) information the Settling Defendant needs to communicate in connection with (i) its enforcement or assignment of its intellectual property or contract rights, (ii) a contemplated merger, acquisition, or purchase or sale of assets, (iii) its distribution of another E-book Publisher's E-books, or (iv) a business arrangement under which E-book Publishers agree to co-publish, or an E-book Publisher agrees to license to another E-book Publisher the publishing rights to, one or more specifically identified E-book titles or a particular author's E-books.

By the end of 2009, however, the Publisher Defendants had concluded that unilateral efforts to move Amazon away from its practice of offering low retail prices would not work, and they thereafter conspired to raise retail e-book prices and to otherwise limit competition in the sale of e-books.

Price competition won't go away, and with a by - now huge and - still - growing market of indie books that practice price competition - and - which are (no matter hows publishers and pundits try to deny it) increasingly indistinguishable from traditionally published books in terms of packaging and writing / editing quality, publishers need to come up with an argument in favor of higher pricing that - readers - find convincing, or else lower prPrice competition won't go away, and with a by - now huge and - still - growing market of indie books that practice price competition - and - which are (no matter hows publishers and pundits try to deny it) increasingly indistinguishable from traditionally published books in terms of packaging and writing / editing quality, publishers need to come up with an argument in favor of higher pricing that - readers - find convincing, or else lower prprice competition - and - which are (no matter hows publishers and pundits try to deny it) increasingly indistinguishable from traditionally published books in terms of packaging and writing / editing quality, publishers need to come up with an argument in favor of higher pricing that - readers - find convincing, or else lower prices.

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.

Retailing With the Amazon / Overstock price war (which has settled down to price matching) as a backdrop, Rob Salkowitz offers some advice to proprietors of comics shops on how to avoid «showrooming,» the practice of customers coming to their shop to look at the stock but then actually buying it from an online retailer.

The EC reports in its Official Journal (PDF) that «by jointly switching the sale of ebooks from a wholesale model to an agency model with the same key terms on a global basis, the Four Publishers and Apple engaged in a concerted practice with the object of raising retail prices of ebooks in the EEA [European Economic Area, which includes the 27 countries in the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein],» breaching EEA competition rules.

In this course from PublishDrive's Zsofia Macho, find out how to price your ebook for various territories and learn the best practices for selling your books across the world.

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.

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