Sentences with phrase «such pricing practices»

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Those can include import taxes that offset unfair practices such as government subsidies or below - cost pricing.

The housing boom was fueled by optimistic expectations for house price appreciation, combined with lax underwriting standards embodied in such practices as no - doc mortgages and widespread speculative activity by investors.

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.

Sources familiar with the deliberations said two sections of the Competition Act where Ottawa may want to make changes are Sections 76 and 77 — that deal with practices such as «price maintenance» and «exclusive dealing.»

But after experiencing the benefits of cold showers I find the momentary discomfort of such a practice a very small price to pay in the bigger picture of the innumerable physical, mental and even spiritual benefits I receive.

In author and seasoned commodity trader Carley Garner's quest to guide traders through the process of commodity market analysis, strategy development, and risk management, «Higher Probability Commodity Trading» discusses several alternative market concepts and unconventional views such as option selling tactics, hedging futures positions with options, and combining the practice of fundamental, technical, seasonal, and sentiment analysis to gauge market price changes.

Aldi's business model is based on low prices, which it achieves by practices such as stocking fewer items, eschewing national brands for cheaper generic labels and not accepting credit cards.

What this means in practice is that we have kept maturities of our investments very short, particularly for low - risk issuers such as governments and agencies, while we seek out opportunities to increase portfolio yield with what we think is well - priced corporate debt.

Also, fraudulent commercial practices have transferred exports at below - market prices to dummy companies created in Switzerland and the United States, and in offshore banking centers such as Cyprus, the British Channel Islands, the Caribbean islands and Panama.

Sales practices, such as preferential pricing and bundling of products and services, offer potential and existing customers better prices or more favourable terms.

Article spinning (the practice in which articles are rewritten multiple times using software) to get many «unique» articles for the price of one is a common practice used by such agencies.

«Awareness of the price of Jesus, prophetic reading of the contemporary corresponding in daily practice to the least details of theological conviction, such are the characteristics of the given life of Bonhoeffer... he was one of those saints whose whole existence consists of communicating around them the overflowing of eternal life already manifested in them today.»

The ACCC is also taking a closer look at online retailing, particularly practices such as retail price maintenance and exclusive dealings.

This is such a simple concept, and we're glad to see someone put this into practice at a low price ($ 10).

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.

Other recommended actions include more research, especially collaborative work, and more funding for that research; practicing integrity and high ethics; and controlling costs in such a way as to reduce the prices of drugs.

Once this becomes common practice worldwide, such repositories will become the standard home for papers, subscriptions can be canceled, and journals can downsize to just providing peer review at a fair, affordable, sustainable price, he says.

Many seemed outraged that hospitals would charge for such a «service,» citing price - gouging and hospital overbilling practices.

Ricketts» time in the fashion industry opened her eyes to unexpected ethical questions, particularly around the issue of modern day slavery, and how the demand for more goods at lower prices perpetuated such labor practices.

Meanwhile year - long exposes by newspapers such as the Sacramento Bee into the high cost of so - called pension spiking, or the practice of allowing teachers and bureaucrats nearing retirement to get double - digit pay raises in their final years of work in order to gain even fatter pensions, has also led to a state investigation, once again reminding families that they pay the price for 3,090 teachers (as of 2010) getting more than $ 100,000 annually in pension annuities.

But when I read the discussion that took place over the weekend at Paidcontent.org between Mathew Ingram and Laura Owen that is described as a «smack - down,» I scratch my head and wonder if anyone can make something more than an emotional and nostalgic argument to defend a practice (the likely illegal price - fixing scheme called «agency pricing «-RRB- that is just such a «subsidy» model.

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.

The European ebook market has made headlines recently for some of the myriad changes being made to bookselling practices — particularly in book price matching and VAT — that will hopefully make digital reading a more widespread practice, and with greater access to digital content through partnerships such as this one greater demand for ebook accessibility will follow.

While some retailers may have reasonable pricing restrictions, such as not allowing you to price below $ 0.99, the standard practice is to give the author complete control over pricing.

«We are worried about the development of practices that do not exist for physical books, such as collusion between publishers on prices,» EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement.

This is problematic because in practice demand for different products changes, in response both to price changes and to other factors such as fashion or technology trends.

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.

The Switch itself is such an awesome system and BOTW is fantastic, it's just such a shame that Nintendo reduces itself to shady practices like Amiibo exclusive content to price gouge fans and rip us off.

More contemporary practices are far from being left out with contributions from younger artists such as Caroline Tschumi, Seyoung Yoon, Walter Price, Sarah Tritz, Hayan Kam Nakache or Konstantin Sgouridis.

This holds farmers hostage to patented varieties at prices that continually rise — a practice that hurts all farmers, but especially those in developing countries where such hikes can mean the difference between a subsistence crop and starvation.

The same objection is more relevant in the example of trade unions or employer collectives forming to bid up or down the price of labor; if all employers collude to fix the price of labor and lock out all workers, then there is no economic reason to call negotiation of wages fair or just, and the courts long ago found such anticompetitive practices sufficient cause to uphold the right of workers to unionize.

We have launched the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to market.

Procurement strategies of gas utilities, addressing issues such as load forecasts, reliability criteria, contracting options, price projections, procurement practices, portfolio policy, and risk management

This is because it will prove difficult to impossible in practice to put a cost on degrees of pollution in such a manner as to set prices accurately to give us the required degree of purity or non-pollution.

Such is not the case in the practice of umbrella pricing, which involves no relationship of unlawfulness.

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.

Finally, we study best business practices such as Lean and PMBOK so we can service our clients with exceptional legal services, at the lowest possible price.

You can get the best pricing from The Human Solution or ergobuyer, although I wouldn't blame you for refusing to do business with a company with such silly pricing practices.

The following shall be prohibited as incompatible with the internal market: all agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices which may affect trade between Member States and which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the internal market, and in particular those which: (a) directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions; (b) limit or control production, markets, technical development, or investment; (c) share markets or sources of supply; (d) apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage; (e) make the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts.

Abuses in the mobility aids sector — such as inflating prices by 400 % in door - step sales to house - bound individuals — illustrate some of the worst practices.

Rule 5.4 (a) has some very narrow exceptions, such as purchasing the practice of a deceased attorney and paying the estate the purchase price or including non-lawyer employees in a retirement plan.

Reviewable matters include mergers and restrictive trade practices, such as refusal to deal, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, tied selling, market restriction and abuse of dominant position.

For so long as the legal profession enjoyed a monopoly on the provision of legal services and for so long as clients were prepared to accept these billing models, such practices were considered «ethical» (note however that neither of these are pricing models they are merely billing models as billing takes place after the work is done whereas pricing takes place before the work is done).

Agreements between providers of internet access services and end - users on commercial and technical conditions and the characteristics of internet access services such as price, data volumes or speed, and any commercial practices conducted by providers of internet access services, shall not limit the exercise of the rights of end - users laid down in paragraph 1.

A practice of saving paperwork for one year after the relevant statute of limitations for a lawsuit expires is common, but some kinds of paperwork needs to be retained much longer such as vital statistics records (e.g. birth certificates, marriage certificates and divorce decrees) that can prove citizenship and marital status, documents showing the purchase price of property that may later be sold until it is sold (for tax purposes), documents that prove ownership of property that is still owned, documents that prove final payment of debts, many documents related to a divorce, and many documents related to estate planning.

In oligopoly publishing markets, or markets with «dominant» publishers, such practices by publishers at least raise a credible appearance of creating barriers to entry by lower - priced competitors.

at § 1630.14 (b)(describing such use with reference to 29 CFR 1630.16 (f), which in turn explains that the ADA regulation «is not intended to disrupt the current regulatory structure for self - insured employers * * * or current industry practices in sales, underwriting, pricing, administrative and other services, claims and similar insurance related activities based on classification of risks as regulated by the states»).

My interest in the technological aspects of the practice of law leads me to leave aside issues such as pricing and focus on a couple of points in particular.

They prohibit a variety of practices that restrain trade, such as price - fixing conspiracies, corporate mergers likely to reduce the competitive vigour of particular markets, and predatory acts designed to achieve or maintain monopoly power.

This order has already been appealed against but it puts the spotlight on the practice of lenders to club sales of group insurance policies with their loans and the pricing of such policies.