Sentences with phrase «serve as loss leaders»

In effect, they're claiming that the foreign strays serve as loss leaders for their less desirable but still adoptable longer - term residents.

In the 60s, 70s, and 80s touring was primarily seen as a way to promote new records; in fact, tours often served as loss leaders for record sales.

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In recent years, Faso, a former Republican leader in the New York State Assembly from Kinderhook, has only served as a political donor, avoiding electoral politics, himself, since his 2006 loss to Democrat Eliot Spitzer in the governor's race.

But there's another reason this race could be notable for the conservative hardliners: Taking out a longtime appropriator would serve as a sweet follow - up to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary loss in Virginia two weeks ago.

Another strategy is leave the first book perma99cents to serve as a loss - leader and price Books # 2 - infinity at full price.

After a pithy synopsis of 1970s «noncommercial art» and two subsequent «hypocritical» decades, in which installations of «confetti and dog turds» served as loss - leaders for secondary - market sales, Hickey rolled around to his twin entreaties: for replacing money - driven caprice with community deliberation in valuing contemporary art, and for an ethos of individual honesty and goodness predicated on basketball titan Dr. J's idea of «playing fair without the referee.»

He will also serve as a seasoned business leader to steer Building 8 team, which has suffered a wave of key staff departures in recent months, including the loss of COO Richard Wooldridge, head of consumer experience Donald Hicks, and head of product management Olivier Bartholot, according to people familiar with the matter.

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