State briefs: Voters in four counties containing and bordering Denver authorized the imposition of an additional 2% sales tax within that area.

Colorado has a 2% sales tax.

Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.

These cells were thawed at 37-degrees-C for 30 min and were deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing with descending concentrations of glycerol solutions ( 20, 18, 10, 8, 4 and 2% ).

Discounts run up to 2% of cost.

One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.

For the albumin method, equal volumes of 30% bovine albumin, sample and 2% cells suspended in saline were allowed to stand at room temperature for 1 hr and then were centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 Aj.

The cells were then washed three times with saline and resuspended to 2% in saline.

He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.

Says Wright: `` Our survey shows that one third of the retail dealers plan to increase the mechanization of their materials handling in the coming two years.

He noted that five sectors produced all of the productivity gains of the 1990s, and that while the growth of retail and wholesale trade produced the smallest growth, they were by far the largest sectors of the economy experiencing net increase of productivity.

Although fashionable housing and businesses developed in downtown, the increase in industry and the development of new suburbs both pushed and pulled retail and residential development to the west and north after World War II.

As industrial and retail growth spur the city forward, the city has seen an increase in its population.

Although growth in Pleasure Ridge Park is fairly slow, the area has seen an increase in small-scale retail in the last few years.

The retail and service related facilities have seen a slight increase in business due to the recent expansion of tourism related to bird-watching.

* Cookeville's 2005 retail sales total of $ 1. 16 billion was a 12. 4 % increase from the 2004 retail sales total.

A variety of incentive techniques may be used to increase market share or revenues at the retail level.

Rayon now sells for as much as $ 2. 70 per pound, which has led to an increase in the retail price of clothing made with rayon, despite rayon's price advantage over cotton.

Plans for the town centre include greater pedestrianization and an increase in size and number of retail units.

For many infomercials, the largest portion of positive response they aim for is retail sales, making infomercials similar in impact to traditional commercials where advertisers do not solicit a direct response from viewers, but rather create the commercials with a goal to leave behind messages and brand loyalty that the advertisers hope will lead people to purchase their product or increase acceptance of the product.

This job creation is particularly useful as often it provides employment for low skilled labour in the tourism and retail sectors, thus benefiting the poor in particular and representing an overall net increase in employment.

In a retail environment, especially one in which employees earn commission, cherry picking is the act of assisting only customers who appear to be interested in making large purchases, with the intent of creating a perceived increase in personal sales performance, and therefore more commission.

The increase in the town's commercial importance, as well as its strategic location, is witnessed by the number of industry, business and retail parks in the town.

Quote from " Overview of Tax Legislation and Rates " section 3. 44 < http :// cdn. hm-treasury. gov. uk / 2011budget_taxation_overview. pdf > " When oil prices are high, as now, fuel duty will increase by the retail prices index ( RPI ).

In 2011, Phase 1 underwent a massive renovation and refurbishment exercise which also sees the expansion of floor space to increase retail space.

The expanded airport will increase the airport's size by an additional 40, 000m², including more than 3, 000m² of new retail facilities.

Within the New Zealand financial institution context this is a significant figure: for the ' Big Five ' retail banks ( ANZ / National Bank, ASB, Westpac, BNZ ), a typical year will result in a 0. 2 % increase or decrease in market share ( deposit and lending values rather than number of customers ).

However, health studies have demonstrated that headache, stress, blood pressure, fatigue and worker error all generally increase with the common over-illumination present in many workplace and retail settings.

Analysis by researchers at the University of Vermont estimated that an increase of " slightly more than 3 percent " in the retail price of electricity in Vermont would result from closing Vermont Yankee.

Many affluent Hong Kong and Taiwanese immigrants have moved there since the late 1980s, coinciding with the increase of Chinese-ethnic retail and restaurants in that area.

Herbalife reported net sales of USD 3. 45 billion in 2011 with a retail sales turn over of 5. 1 billion USD with an increase of 1. 1 billion retail sales on 2010.

Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

The administration has said the sales tax proposal is merely part of the segregation strategy, since the revenues from the increase would be dedicated to a grant in aid program.

Some contracts specify a scale of royalties payable ( for example, where royalties start at 10 % for the first 10, 000 sales, but then increase to a higher percentage rate at higher sale thresholds ).

During its decline, Master RAM Boards were added to every Electron in an attempt to increase sales.

Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record high of $ 476 billion in 2005, an increase of 4. 9 percent over 2004 ...

By changing Bovril to a non-meat base, Unilever hoped to increase sales there, where people enjoy Bovril stirred into porridge.

The growth of exports in 2006 was mainly caused by a strong increase in sales to the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan.

One of the sales promotion actions to increase purchase of domestic products

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

It was also reported that the incident led to a 300 % increase in sales of croquet equipment at Asda, while the TV Five announced that they would be running a series featuring croquet matches played at country houses pitting " rich " against " poor " players.

A Doom-based game called Chex Quest was released in 1996 by Ralston Foods as a promotion to increase cereal sales, and the United States Marine Corps released Marine Doom, designed to " teach teamwork, coordination and decision-making ".

The news of Jones ' death triggered a surge of Internet traffic, causing sales of The Monkees ' music to increase dramatically.

* 2012: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $ 226 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2011.

Shrimp contributed US $ 97 million in export sales to the economy in 1992 — an increase of 33 percent over the previous year.

Although Holden's involvement in exports has fluctuated since the 1950s, the declining sales of large cars in Australia has led the company to look to international markets to increase profitability.

The baby boom saw a significant increase in sales for Jello.

For a monopoly to increase sales it must reduce price.

For example, a firm could cut prices and increase sales without fear that its actions will prompt retaliatory responses from competitors.

This was seen as a backdoor tactic to increase the number of OS / 2 users, in the belief that this would increase sales and demand for third-party applications, and thus strengthen OS / 2's desktop numbers.

Concerned that the considerable price increase of a Type 911 with " flat " six-cylinder powerplant over the Type 356 would cost the company sales and narrow brand appeal, Porsche executives decided to introduce a new four-cylinder entry-level model.

Traditionally pubs in England were drinking establishments and little emphasis was placed on the serving of food, other than " bar snacks ", such as pork scratchings, and pickled eggs, along with salted crisps and peanuts which helped to increase beer sales.