On 21 July 2004, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review of defence spending, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced that three frigates of the fleet of sixteen would be paid off as part of a continuous cost-cutting strategy, and these were subsequently sold to Chile.

Client states paid tribute to the Aztec emperor, the Huey Tlatoani, in an economic strategy limiting communication and trade between outlying polities making them depend on the imperial center for the acquisition of luxury goods.

It was expected that the ABC loan would be discharged in June 2008 on its maturity and that the debt owed to Caliendo would be paid off " in early 2008 " in line with a funding strategy which Ecclestone publicly stated would not result in the wealthy owners simply bankrolling the club.

the two part tariff is another form of price discrimination where the producer charges an initial fee then a secondary fee for the use of the product, an example of this is razors, you pay an initial cost for the Gillette razor and then pay for the replacement blades, this pricing strategy works because it shifts the demand curve to the right since you have already paid for the initial blade holder you will buy the blades which are now cheaper than buying a disposable razor,

The strategy paid off as Sabre Wulf went on to sell over 350, 000 copies on the Spectrum alone.

This new strategy paid off with a 22nd Paulista Championship.

Four years later, in September 2001, the strategy paid off and the MEP won a decisive victory from the opposition.

The strategy paid off with Janmaat winning a seat in the House of Representatives in the 1989 general election.

Apple worked with DVcreators. net to host hundreds of free and paid Final Cut Pro seminars and workshops in 60 cities in the U. S., Canada and other countries over the following years, a strategy that some feel fundamentally contributed to Final Cut Pro's early awareness in the marketplace and rise in market share.

However, IBM's CMOS strategy paid off in the long run, allowing IBM's Poughkeepsie factory to produce even faster mainframes at lower cost as the technology matured.

The strategy paid off, as the Gold led the league in attendance during its inaugural season.

* the renewal of the communication strategy of the ACP, with special attention being paid to the mainstream and new media ;

In 2009, the then vice-chancellor Simon Lee resigned from his position following a series of controversies including ongoing arguments over the university's fees strategy, allegations of bullying and foreign travel for his wife paid for by the university.

A cornerstone of his political and economic strategy was the implementation by dictat of an agrarian reform program to expropriate farms and diversify land ownership, much of which had been concentrated in Haciendas ' owned by a small percentage of the population who previously had acted like feudal lords and paid starvation wages to the surrounding campesinos who worked on the haciendas ; these owners who opposed his program claimed that the expropriation was more akin to confiscation, as they were paid in non-tradable bonds that would eventually become worthless by the government's inflationary policies.

Rather than capitulate, the manufacturers formed " the Shuttle Club ", a syndicate which paid the costs of any member brought to court ; their strategy of patent piracy and mutual indeminification nearly bankrupted Kay.

Once in the NFL, Sanders felt he deserved to be paid as much as NFL quarterbacks and in 1995 he used the " Prime Time " strategy to sign a seven-year, $ 35 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys ( the contract was essentially five years, but was given a seven-year length for an easier cap hit and the signing bonus was $ 12, 999, 999. 99, one cent under $ 13 million due to a superstition of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ).

The strategy paid off, and Thomas guided Thunder into the play-offs, before they eventually went out to Workington Town.

Wingfield's strategy for growth included recruiting new members at football grounds, a tactic that initially paid dividends.

However his most effective campaign strategy was to emphasize how the affluent Brock, through skillful use of the tax code by his accountants, had been able to pay less than $ 2, 000 in income taxes the previous year ; an amount considerably less than that paid by many Tennesseans of far more modest means.

The strategy paid off as the project peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums, number 20 on the Billboard 200, and sold over 300, 000 units with no video & very little radio play.

This strategy paid off.

His business strategy paid off, and in 1988, he was able to open his first bank in Dallas.

In the first decade of its operations Globes sold its contents through selling access to its archive or through a paid subscription, but recently the strategy was modified and the information is open to the general public.

A harvesting strategy which can be an example of a vicious circle is rather than reinvesting in employee development, new product development, and market research, management could decide to harvest its investment by reducing costs then increasing dividends or increasing executive compensation.

In the race the Ferrari's poor ability to handle its tyres lead to their aggressive race strategy of super soft / medium / medium compounds paying little dividends after the first 6 laps ( where the Ferraris moved to the front of the pack ).

This was an integral and important part of their defensive strategy which paid rich dividends through many campaigns.

The revenue potential of this strategy, which may " starve " a company of capital, was increased by a 1970s court ruling that allowed companies to consider the entire fair-market value of the company, instead of only their " hard assets ", in determining how much money was available to pay dividends.

Some of the prerogatives of control include: electing directors, hiring and firing the company ’ s management and determining their compensation ; declaring dividends and distributions, determining the company ’ s strategy and line of business, and acquiring, selling or liquidating the business.

The minority shareholders objected to this strategy, demanding that Ford stop reducing his prices when they could barely fill orders for cars and to continue to pay out special dividends from the capital surplus in lieu of his proposed plant investments.

Has your company thought through its strategy in this whole `` discretionary buying '' area??

Are planning and strategy development emphasized sufficiently in your company??

Borland had had an internal project to clone dBASE which was intended to run on Windows and was part of the strategy of the acquisition, but by late 1992 this was abandoned due to technical flaws and the company had to constitute a replacement team ( the ObjectVision team, redeployed ) headed by Bill Turpin to redo the job.

In addition to the development and publishing of home, online, mobile, arcade, pachinko, and pachislo games, the company publishes strategy guides, maintains its own arcade centers, and licenses its franchise and character properties for use in tie-in products, movies, television series, and stage performances.

* Technology: In evaluating technology, key factors include alignment with the company ’ s business process strategy and goals, including the ability to deliver the right data to the right employees and sufficient ease of adoption and use.

Such “ point solutions ” offer little or no integration or alignment with a company ’ s overall strategy.

However, Pfeiffer had little vision for what the combined companies should do, or indeed how the three dramatically different cultures could work as a single entity, and Compaq struggled as a result of a strategy that had the company caught in between the low end and high end.

While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius ' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as " Fabian strategy ", and George Washington has been called " the American Fabius.

Considerations will include the organization and management of operations at the hedge fund manager, whether the investment strategy is likely to be sustainable, and the fund's ability to develop as a company.

Solidere, a private real estate company set up to rebuild downtown Beirut, was a symbol of Hariri's strategy to link economic recovery to private sector investment.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

NAI was the first company to have a legal export strategy by publishing source code.

Between its creation and late 1998, the company had a relatively calm relationship with its first economic regulator, John Swift QC, whose strategy was to encourage Railtrack to make commitments to improvement.

A common and desirable exit strategy for an extremely successful video game developer is to sell the company to a publisher, and thus become an in-house developer.

Worms is a series of artillery strategy computer games developed by British company Team17.

The Antonov company lacks facilities for full construction of some aircraft, a result of Soviet industrial strategy that split military production between different regions of the USSR.

In 1992, American Stores shifted its strategy from that of a holding company to a centralized operating company.

* in the case of an investing company, depart substantially from the investing strategy stated in its admission document or, where no admission document was produced on admission, depart substantially from the investing strategy stated in its pre-admission announcement or, depart substantially from the investing strategy.

The company ’ s Dynamic Infrastructures strategy, was also born here.

The LSE Council is responsible for strategy and its members are company directors of the School.

This is a common strategy between smaller publishers in different territorial markets where the company that first buys the intellectual property rights then sells a package to other publishers and gains an immediate return on capital invested.

The company confirmed that it was looking into the selling the Miramax label on February 9, 2010, with Bob Iger explaining, " We determined that continuing to invest in new Miramax movies wasn't necessarily a core strategy of ours ".