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 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 prices combined with high sales volumes.

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.

Low productivity and competitiveness on the European and world markets alike due to inadequate R & D funding and a lack of a clearly defined development policy remain a significant obstacle for foreign investment and economic growth.

Barge and canal systems were nonetheless of great, perhaps even primary, economic importance until after World War I in Europe, particularly in the more developed nations of the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland, and especially Great Britain which more or less made the system characteristically its own.

In Western, Northern and Central Europe ( France, Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries, and the annexed portions of Czechoslovakia ) Germany established economic policies through which it collected roughly 69. 5 billion reichmarks ( 27. 8 billion US Dollars ) by the end of the war ; this figure does not include the sizable plunder of industrial products, military equipment, raw materials and other goods.

Low ( as opposed to zero or negative ) inflation reduces the severity of economic recessions by enabling the labor market to adjust more quickly in a downturn, and reduces the risk that a liquidity trap prevents monetary policy from stabilizing the economy.

While the banking system evolved in the Low Countries, it was quickly incorporated by the well-connected English, stimulating English economic output.

The city soon fell behind Antwerp as the economic flagship of the Low Countries.

In 1521, Emperor Charles V added the city to his possessions in the Low Countries, leading to a period of religious strife and economic decline.

His ideas here, promoting a kind of Belgian nationalism, have also proved controversial, with many historians preferring to stress the economic unity of the Low Countries as a whole.

Pirenne's argument that the long Spanish rule in the Low Countries had little continuing cultural impact has likewise fallen, in the face of new as research since 1970 in the fields of cultural, military, economic, and political history.

" ( Controversy, 2005, p. 3 ) A report on economic development in the area, entitled Subsidizing the Low Road: Economic Development in Baltimore, states that " public and non-profit facilities such as the Maryland Science Center, the World Trade Center, the Convention Center, and the National Aquarium " ( Subsidizing, 2002, p. 11 ) were part of then-mayor Schaefer's " focus on real estate, retailing and tourism sectors " ( p. 10 ), as areas for growth, as well as his utilization of "' public / private partnerships ' to pursue economic development " ( p. 11 ).

In short, while it may have lagged slightly behind the Low Countries, and possibly Switzerland, in per capita wealth, the sheer size of the French economy made it the premier economic power of continental Europe.

The Low Countries became a political and economic centre, noted for crafts and the production of luxury goods.

Low westwood saw a huge economic boom in the late 19th century, with the establishment of many of its residential properties, built with a yellow grey Durham stone, iconic of the area.

The Low German language also influenced Old Swedish due to the economic and political power of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries.

He was one of the most famous Netherlandish painters of his generation, a prolific master who left his early workshop in Valenciennes to run two workshops, one in Bruges, where he was made a burgher in 1494, the other simultaneously in Antwerp, which was the economic center of the Low Countries.

Neither the thin infertile sands of the High Weald or the wet sticky clays of the Low Weald are suited to intensive arable farming and the topography of the area often increases the difficulties.

Some people terminate the diet or switch to a less demanding diet, like the Modified Atkins Diet or the Low Glycemic Index Treatment, because they find the difficulties too great.

Externally, Columbia was the first orbiter in the fleet whose surface was mostly covered with High & Low Temperature Reusable Surface Insulation ( HRSI / LRSI ) tiles as its main thermal protection system ( TPS ), with white silicone rubber-painted Nomex — known as Felt Reusable Surface Insulation ( FRSI ) blankets — in some areas on the wings, fuselage and Payload Bay Doors.

These secure hospital facilities are divided into three main categories and are referred to as High, Medium and Low Secure.

During the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, neither England nor the main maritime provinces of the Low Countries, Flanders and Holland, had been major European sea powers on par with Venice, Genoa, Portugal, Castile or Aragon.

The other three main campuses are in Show Low, Snowflake, and Winslow, all in Navajo County, Arizona.

The plan was in principle a repeat of the double invasion of the previous year, this time with the main blow to fall in the Low Countries.

In viticulture, the two main components in growing Riesling grapes are to keep it " Long & Low " meaning that the ideal situation for Riesling is a climate that allows for a long, slow ripening and proper pruning to keep the yield low and the flavour concentrated.

Hall breaks up culture into two main groups: High and Low context cultures.

Low subscriber numbers were cited as the main reason.

The small United Reformed Church on Low Chare, just off the main Front Street, was built in 1814 as the Bethel Congregational Chapel and remodeled in 1860.

Kabhuis is believed to have entered the Dutch language circa 1747 as a derivation of the obsolete Low German word Kabhuse, which also described a cabin erected on a ship's main deck.

* Ambient / experimental musical band, House of Low Culture, not only named their second full length album, Edward's Lament, after the film's main character, but also based the album on some of the film's themes.

His father was the main owner of the Low Moor ironworks and also represented Bradford in Parliament.

The Anthony Low Building in the garden of Elmside was completed in 2000, providing further common rooms and the Garden Bar for the graduates on the main college site.

The linguistic varieties of Extremadura are usually classified in three main branches: Northern or " High " ( artu estremeñu ), Central or " Middle " ( meyu estremeñu ), and Southern or " Low " ( baju estremeñu ).

The main core of the route runs from to via and Glasgow Queen Street ( Low Level ).

Pierre de Marca, a Béarnese author, suggests that the attackers were a reduced number of mostly local Low Navarrese, Souletines, and Baztanese, whose main motivation may well have been plunder.

He quickly became a main event wrestler, competing against Low Ki for ROH Championship at Honor Invades Boston.

The Queenscliff Low Light (" white lighthouse ") and Queenscliff High Light (" black lighthouse ") form a leading line to guide ships through the main channel, in conjunction with the Hume and Murray Towers that show red and green lights respectively.

The main problem for Spain in Italy was French and Savoyard ambitions on the Duchy of Milan, a key territory from the strategic point of view to maintain military communications between Spain and the Low Countries and other Habsburg territories in Europe.

It occupies a broad strip of land between the Ings and Low Carrs to the south of the main road and a ridge of higher, sloping ground which is surmounted by the castle to the north.

Low Ki returned to the promotion in September, defecting from RISE to join New Japan's main villainous faction, Great Bash Heel ( GBH ).

A portion of the track bed of the old line, running nearly East-West for several miles, was used to form the main part of the " 5km " radio-telescope and the Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope.

Low level headings were cut to drain the main workings of water, and the tunnel opened on 25 March 1805, the last part of the canal to be completed.

Low mass main sequences of stars, such as red dwarfs below 0. 35 solar masses, as well as pre-main sequence stars on the Hayashi track, are convective throughout and do not contain a radiation zone.