They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.

The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.

They had been through trying times, but their faith in the Almighty had given them the courage and the strength to meet and overcome the many problems and difficulties that were the price they had to pay for freedom.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

It was as though he had made a pact with the devil himself, but it was not yet time to pay the price.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

In the Shikhali district an estimated 7, 000 head of cattle were taken away from Hazaras and 350 men and women of the Jaghori district had been sold at Kabul markets each at the price of 20 – 21 Afs.

LTCM had attempted to make money on the price difference between different bonds.

" Accordingly, the price of wheat had a profound effect on the cost of living of the ordinary family.

Thus the price of wheat had fallen.

New fonts were being used on the front cover, and the " Pocket money price " logo had been changed to a large " WOW!

The anniversary was also celebrated with a 40-page issue ( instead of 32 pages ; the 60th birthday issue also had extra pages, 48 instead of 24 ) guest edited by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, price £ 1. 50 ( not 99p ) and an issue of Classics from the Comics devoted to the Beano.

Allende adopted measures including price freezes, wage increases, and tax reforms, which had the effect of increasing consumer spending and redistributing income downward.

The two price wars resulting from Compaq's actions ultimately drove numerous competitors from the market, such as Packard Bell, and by 1994 Compaq had overtaken Apple Computer and even surpassed I. B. M.

Carly Fiorina, initially seen as HP's savior when she was hired as CEO back in 1999, had seen the company's stock price drop to less than half since she assumed the position, and her job was said to be on shakey ground before the merger announcement.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.

After three lessons, Raine told Alma that Doris had " tremendous potential ", which led Alma to give her daughter three lessons a week for the price of one.

At the end of basic training they had to buy a horse at a reduced price from the army and to take it home together with equipment, uniform and weapon.

On July 4, Allen and Warner made their case to New York's Provincial Congress, which, despite the fact that the Royal Governor had placed a price on their heads, agreed to the formation of a regiment.

It was initially offered to loyal and reoccurring customers, each of the 399 made ( minus the 400th which was donated to the Vatican for charity ) had a price tag of $ 650, 000 apiece.

Colin Chapman probably had similar views as he asked a high price for his contribution and insisted that the car ( which became the Lotus Europa ) should be named a Lotus-Ford, an attitude that can be viewed as polite refusal.

When Rawlings again seized power at the end of 1981, cocoa output had fallen to half the 1970-71 level and its world price to one-third the 1975 level.

To document his charge, Pike set up two parallel columns in The Advocate showing the price charged by The Gazette and the considerably lower price for which the work could be done elsewhere.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of lead as long as the market price for common lead at New York, New York, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 75 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.

Frequently, the message must be changed at intervals to feature new products, price changes, etc..

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

The entry-limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition, but unless general inflation permits profit margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy, we might expect the public-limit price to approach the entry-limit price.

The foreign-entry-limit price would be approached more rapidly, since domestic wage-rates do not enter foreign costs directly.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

`` I feel confident the stock will qualify for the ' national list ' '', he said, meaning its market price would be quoted regularly in newspapers all over the country.

Accounting procedures can be varied to provide a rationale for almost any price.

`` Without any officious and improper interference on the subject, the price of labor or the wages of mechanics will be regulated by the demand for the manufactured article and the value of that which is paid for it ; ;

Let us therefore put first things first, and make sure of preserving the human race at whatever the temporary price may be ''.

In 1926, Kodak lowered the price of panchromatic stock to parity with its orthochromatic offering and the panchromatic stock began to overtake the orthochromatic stock's market share within a few years.

Where shotshell reloading remains popular, however, is for making specialized shotgun shells, such as for providing lowered recoil, when making low cost " poppers " used for training retrievers before hunting season to acclimate hunting dogs to the sound of a gun firing without actually shooting projectiles, for achieving better shot patterning, or for providing other improvements or features not available in commercially-loaded shotshells at any price, such as when handloading obsolete shotshells with brass cases for gauges of shotshells that are no longer commercially manufactured.

* Once such price ceilings become accepted, they could be slowly lowered, eventually driving out the landlords and worsening the problem.

President Reagan lifted remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls on January 28, 1981, and lowered the oil windfall profits tax in August 1981.

In the traditional Dutch auction the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price.

Additional crude glutted the market, and trying to slow production, Standard Oil lowered its price to fifteen cents a barrel.

If his competitors would sell potatoes for 50 cents a bushel, Martin would not raise his price and if others lowered the price to 25 cents per bushel, he would not lower his price.

Verizon tried raising the price to 50 cents, but lowered it to 25 cents after customers started using their competitors ' phones.

All of these have now been discontinued as the core Media Composer product has been lowered in price and is now heavily discounted for academic / student use.

In 1874, Chulalongkorn enacted a law that lowered the redemption price of household slaves born in 1867 ( his ascension year ) and freed all of them when they had reached 21.

Taylor also warned explicitly against cutting piece rates ( or, by implication, cutting wages or discharging workers ) when efficiency improvements reduce the need for raw labor: "… after a workman has had the price per piece of the work he is doing lowered two or three times as a result of his having worked harder and increased his output, he is likely entirely to lose sight of his employer's side of the case and become imbued with a grim determination to have no more cuts if soldiering time, just doing what he is told can prevent it.

The classic example is the pricing of Twinkies, a snack cake which was viewed as low quality after the price was lowered.

When the product enters maturity the price is lowered.

Several days following this demonstration, Burroughs Wellcome lowered the price of AZT to $ 6, 400 per patient per year.

The price for courtside seats to a Rockets game in the new arena were raised by as much as 50 % compared to prices in the team's old home, while upper-deck seat prices were lowered.

At the same time, the tax levied on the firm will increase the price of D. The lowered income tax and the higher consumer prices even each other out, stabilizing the real net wage.

The production of large numbers of US gold coins ( First $ 1 1849 and $ 20 in 1850 ) from the new California mines lowered the price of gold .. so the value of silver rose.

The mass production of this automobile lowered its unit price, making it affordable for the average consumer.

Along with the new screen, Apple changed the SRAM memory to less expensive and more power-hungry pseudo-SRAM ( which reduced the total RAM expansion to 8 MB ) and lowered the price.

In 2006 along with the introduction of the Mac Pro, Apple lowered the price of the 30 " Cinema Display to US $ 1999.

Also in 2004, the Platinum edition was introduced at the price of $ 71, 025 ; It featured the luxury utility segment's first factory-installed 20-inch chrome wheels, a slightly lowered stance, heated and cooled seats ( front and back ), heated and cooled cup holders, moon roof, 2nd and 3rd row monitors, a premium interior that included an ebony and shale dashboard, shale leather upholstery and pleated door panel bolsters and a chrome grille.

New firms will continue to enter the industry until the price of the product is lowered to the point that it is the same as the average economic cost of producing the product, and all of the economic profit disappears.