The Low Pay Commission found that, rather than make employees redundant, employers have reduced their rate of hiring, reduced staff hours, increased prices, and have found ways to cause current workers to be more productive ( especially service companies ).

Low commodity prices and economic difficulties in Uruguay's main export markets, first in Brazil with the devaluation of the real then in Argentina in 2002, caused a severe recession — the economy contracted by 11 %, unemployment climbed to 21 % and the percentage of Uruguayans in poverty rose to over 30 %.

Low silver prices closed Presidio Mine at Shafter.

The developers marketed the houses nationally, with ads in magazines such as Life .< sup > 1 </ sup > Low prices and small down payments enticed many retirees to purchase homes sight unseen via mail.

Low prices act as a barrier to entry ( see Porter's 5-forces analysis ).

Low trading volume can cause artificially low prices for securities, due to investors being apprehensive of investing in a company they perceive as possibly lacking liquidity.

Low prices are achievable due to the lack of sales tax in Hong Kong and its proximity to China.

Low hydro-levels had driven the wholesale market spot prices to very high levels.

Low prices are charged to maximize revenue through gain in market share by undercutting competitors.

Low land prices in other colonies made attracting tenants difficult, but an offer of six years free rent to dissatisfied residents of Lunenburg was a success.

However opponents point all the achievements where over 10 years, at time of Strong Global economic growth, Low oil prices and relative to other countries the achievements where average, particularly since a massive Balance of Payments crises began in 2008.

Low copper prices saw the Britannia Mine Company reduced to seven employees, and in 1959 it went into liquidation.

Low prices of gasoline forced the industry to be closed despite the significant reserves.

Low property prices, a blue-flag beach, and the village now having high-speed internet access, is giving the village a resurgence with an influx of people working from home.

Low rental prices coupled with the fact that most could not qualify for a council house attracted many commonwealth immigrants to Harehills, throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Low rice prices and smaller harvests due to mismanaged land had rendered his farm unprofitable.

Low gold prices of 1997-1998 caused Royal Oak to go bankrupt in April 1999, and its mining assets were liquidated.

Low gold prices forced the company to close the mines in 1997.

Low prices and wide options are important because in the highly competitive Brazilian food market one can find, in addition to traditional restaurants and fast food chains, snack bars serving meaty eats, churrascarias, street vendors selling snacks or hot-dogs, and, most of all, the ubiquitous self-service restaurants where one serves oneself freely from dozens of options and pays after the weight of the plate ( the latter type is especially popular and low-priced, usually with clean and nutritious food ).

Comet operates a policy called Every Day Low Pricing, meaning it checks competitors ' prices and, wherelower prices are found, it reduces its own to match.

In the meantime, Marlborough led combined English, Dutch and German forces in the Low Countries, where he captured several important fortresses, most notably Liège.

Together these distinct varieties, now often combined with the Kleve dialects ( Kleverländisch ) as Meuse-Rhenish (' Rheinmaasländisch '), belong to the greater Low Franconian area between the rivers Meuse and Rhine ( A. Welschen 2002 ).

* Salomé in Low Land ( 2006 ), an animated short film by Christian Zagler using low-tech videogame style combined with opera music.

Low pollution is a crucial advantage of combined cycle plants that burn natural gas.

The Prince served in the Low Countries in the War of the First Coalition, under his elder brother Frederick, Duke of York, then commander of the combined British, Hanoverian and Austrian forces.

No NCMP seats were offered to any of the opposition parties following the election as the opposition won a combined total of four seats ( Low of The Workers ' Party plus three MPs from Singapore Democratic Party ).

Low cooperativeness and self-directedness combined with high self-transcendence may result in openness to odd or unusual ideas and behaviours associated with distorted perceptions of reality.

Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night, or LANTIRN, is a combined navigation and targeting pod system for use on the USAF's premier fighter aircraft — the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon ( Block 40 / 42 C & D models ).

When LAUNCHcast plus was implemented in 2003, music was available for streaming for free at " Low " or " Medium " quality ; although in 2007, these were combined into " Standard ".

* MZR-CD 2. 2 Low Power: produces at 3500 rpm and of torque from 1800 to 2600 rpm, with combined fuel efficiency in 2nd generation Mazda 6: / and CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions of 147 / 149 g / km.

At their height in the late 1950s the Caravans combined the energetic, agile alto of Shirley Caesar on songs such as " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " with the powerful contralto of Inez Andrews on " Mary Don't You Weep, the dramatic soprano of Delores Washington, and the frenetic piano style from Eddie Williams, a friend of Washington.

Low coupling is often a sign of a well-structured computer system and a good design, and when combined with high cohesion, supports the general goals of high readability and maintainability.

A combined Coastal Defence U-Boat and Chain Home Low station was also built at Saxa Vord ; after the war this became a ROTOR radar station.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

Many of the Class of ' 68 walked out of their graduation and held a countercommencement on Low Plaza with a picnic following at Morningside Park, the place where the protests began.

Eventually titled Temple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records.

He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low ( 1977 )— the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years.

The percentage of Low Saxon and High German loanwords can be estimated at 22 – 25 percent, with Low Saxon making up about 15 percent.

Low production continued throughout the 1980s ( see 1980s in film ), but it increased again in the 1990s ( see 1990s in film ) with renewed private and public investment.

Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence.

In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

In it, Gans writes of an audience between the Maharal and Rudolph II: " Our lord the emperor … Rudolph … sent for and called upon our master Rabbi Low ben Bezalel and received him with a welcome and merry expression, and spoke to him face to face, as one would to a friend.

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

In the Low Countries, an ottavino was commonly paired with an 8 ' virginals, encased in a small cubby under the soundboard of the larger instrument.

IEEE 802. 15. 4-2003 ( Low Rate WPAN ) deals with low data rate but very long battery life ( months or even years ) and very low complexity.

IJscolf, a game resembling Colf with the added element of an ice-covered surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age.

Low frequency inductors are constructed like transformers, with cores of electrical steel laminated to prevent eddy currents.

Together with East Low German it forms the Low German dialect group ( German: Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch, Dutch: Nederduits ).

While Dutch is classified as a Low Franconian language, the Dutch Low Saxon varieties, which are also defined as Dutch dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language.

The country is still among the " Low Human Development " countries ( rank 155 of 192 ) as classified by the UNDP, with 42. 3 years of life expectancy at birth.

Soon dispute plunged the surviving brothers into a civil war that was only settled in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, which split the Frankish realm into three parts, to become the kernels of France and Germany, with Burgundy and the Low Countries between them.