They hooked Jack up to every medication you could imagine.
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It's that's going to jack up the cost for everybody.
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They could jack up their stock price without actually doing anything.
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Aldridge will get post touches and jack up contested long twos.
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Simultaneously, Trump wants to jack up defense spending and cut taxes.
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"It doesn't help if they jack up the premiums," she said.
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Pharmaceuticals use patent-created monopolies to jack up the price of drugs
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Thanks to a new contract, Verisign can now jack up prices on .
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It's a moral obligation to do more than just jack up revenue.
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Those companies that remain may fear the worst and jack up premiums.
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S. trade war would jack up consumer prices and trigger job losses.
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Without a competitor, the first airline is then free to jack up prices.
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That has crimped the state's ability to spend to jack up slowing growth.
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Bernie Sanders wants to jack up the estate tax for rich heirs. Sen.
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OL and Borr Drilling acquiring 15 jack-up rigs from Transocean in March.
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Within the guidelines, prosecutors can calculate enhancements that jack up the point total.
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The mask boom has prompted sellers to jack up prices and exploit demand.
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I was struggling to jack up my Honda Civic to change the tire.
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So if your wages and compensation stay essentially the same, but then I jack up the price of college every year and I jack up the price of your health insurance every year, then you become increasingly unhappy and miserable.
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That chaos could prompt insurers to flee or jack up their prices for 2018.
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There's a USB-C port at the bottom and a headphone jack up top.
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The singer had invited a fan, Jack, up on stage to dance with her.
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Uber could roll out autonomous cars, kill Lyft, and jack up the prices anyway.
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They don't add any value and they jack up prices and they create volatility.
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Still the face mask boom prompted sellers to jack up prices and exploit demand.
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That made the decision to jack up interest rates even more of a surprise.
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He's likely to jack up turnout on the other side at least as much.
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So, why are insurers fearful and threatening to quit Obamacare or jack up premiums?
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Big investments can sink a firm's credit rating and jack up its cost of capital.
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You'll learn how to increase brand exposure, boost traffic, and ultimately jack up your profits.
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As populations grow, making land scarce, landlords jack up rents and lend at extortionate rates.
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And lastly, will Samsung jack up the prices in line with the latest iPhone prices?
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The music industry, after all, really did jack up those CD prices to astronomical levels.
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Many suspect that voters would have seen it as a wheeze to jack up income tax.
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Take a proposal to jack up the minimum wage by 12% (and by 30% in London).
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The Oslo-listed company grew rapidly by buying jack-up rigs from Hercules, Transocean, and PPL.
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"The speculation will nevertheless help to jack up the share prices of European banks," he added.
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This rule—much like a minimum wage hike—would jack up the cost of employing people.
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LEE: YOU'RE GOING TO STAY HERE NO MATTER WHAT, EVEN IF THEY JACK UP YOUR TAXES?
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They can then jack up the prices of these drugs thanks to their monopolies on them.
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Yet inflation remains weak as businesses would rather sacrifice their own margins than jack up prices.
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No major advances are clearly on the horizon to jack up productivity in the short term.
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Labour boasts that it will "rewrite the rules of the economy" and jack up public spending.
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The only way to make the numbers work would be to jack up premiums on everyone.
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Bernie Sanders wants to jack up the estate tax, including a 77% rate for over $1 billion.
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There's also a big clip on the back, a la the shuffle, and headphone jack up top.
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Normally, a duopoly and sky-high barriers to entry would have allowed them to jack up prices.
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Not even the decision to jack up the price of Monopoly by 25 percent could curb demand.
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Nordea says some 100-200 jack-up rigs may need to be scrapped before day rates improve.
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Last month, the FCC voted to allow ISPs to jack up broadband rates for schools and libraries.
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Could that ever be used by insurers to jack up my rates — or to avoid me altogether?
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In March, Transocean sold its fleet of shallow water jack-up rigs to Norway's Borr Drilling BORR.
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First, the court recoils at your attempt to use this column to jack up your cat's likes.
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Borr Drilling competes in the jack-up market with firms such as Shelf Drilling, Ensco N> and Rowan.
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Once they'd returned from the hospital, Stephen asked J.T. to try to jack up the car once more.
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He'll miss a layup on one play and then jack up a quick three the next time down.
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Calling your attorney with redundant requests will just jack up your fees at the end of the day.
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India's anti-trust regulator is also investigating whether the company misused its near-monopoly to jack up rates.
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First, Mylan's decision to jack up the price of its pharmaceutical product is not out of the ordinary.
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If you jack up the brightness or read more hours a day, battery life gets shorter, of course.
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But many creators surely construed the payment structure change as a way for Patreon to jack up fees.
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Democrats in Congress used to dismiss efforts to jack up the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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With no competitive motivation, ISPs in these areas will routinely jack up prices with little to no real repercussions.
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George said the drug companies can't continually jack up prices and are not in business just to serve shareholders.
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Using an analogy, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein told CNBC's "Squawk Box" it's illegal to jack up gasoline prices in hurricanes.
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Crooked landlords use legal loopholes to evict families so they can jack up prices and move in richer tenants.
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Pharmacy benefit managers such as CVS have been accused of colluding with drug companies to jack up drug prices.
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"You: Jack up drug prices, appoint (Education Secretary) Betsy DeVos to scam student loans, hurt immigrant kids," she wrote.
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People connive to jack up the price of a lifesaving drug like EpiPen and Congress does nothing about it.
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These companies are already making a killing by using marketing costs as an excuse to jack up prescription prices.
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"I don't see what is in his interests to appoint someone who is going to jack up interest rates."
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Even if it could be done, costlier American labor and production facilities would seriously jack up the iPhone's cost.
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The AHCA allows insurers to jack up rates on older people, so predictably AARP has come out against it.
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It's not altogether uncommon for guys to try to jack up their testosterone levels only to sprout man boobs.
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Failing to do either thing, they say, would force them to jack up premiums or leave the system altogether.
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Insurers can't jack up premiums in random states to make up for large payouts to Harvey and Irma victims.
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"I'm Tammy Baldwin and I'm fighting against drug companies that jack up their prices," she says in the spot.
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Then PJM will artificially jack up the prices of that capacity and drive it out of the capacity market.
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He will jack up tariffs and those are higher tax rates and they will pose incalculable damage on our economy.
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It would raise corporation tax from 2400% to 20.5% and jack up taxes on those earning above £80,000 a year.
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But Uber would like to emphasize that it would never ever use this knowledge to artificially jack up your rates.
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She couldn't afford to buy a noncompliant Blue Cross plan: Blue Cross would jack up her premiums because she's sick.
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It would raise corporation tax from 19% to 26% and jack up taxes on those earning above £80,000 a year.
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The Axon M also has stereo speakers and a USB-C port down bottom, and a headphone jack up top.
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It said it was likely to scrap 21 older jack-up rigs out of Paragon's total fleet of 32 rigs.
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If a patient gets so sick she can't work to pay her premiums, insurers can jack up her rates 150%.
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That process begins with high list prices, and drug companies are still free to jack up those numbers at will.
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Concerns about the balance sheet have been drowned out by rapid subscriber growth and Netflix's ability to jack up prices.
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State oil company Saudi Aramco threatened this week to jack up oil production by 2.5 million barrels, shocking the market.
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He'll hijack entire possessions behaving like the star he's convinced himself he already is, then jack up a terrible shot.
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I mean, it would only take a few percent of Facebook to do this, to actually jack up its numbers.
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Amazon is reportedly deleting some third-party listings that jack up surgical mask prices as the coronavirus creates a shortage.
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And President Donald Trump backed off his threat to jack up tariffs on Chinese goods, easing trepidation about rising costs.
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Plus, there is virtually no rent regulation in Teton County, which allows landlords to jack up the rent whenever they want.
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Related: This Is How Drug Companies Jack Up Their Prices and Hurt Patients Another speaker spoke about her experience of loss.
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This means the watches are slightly cheaper — this one is $3,500 — and jewelers can't really jack up the prices in stores.
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That would jack up such costs as a share of gross domestic product to 9.6 percent in 2035 from 7.9 percent.
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" The congresswoman added: "You jack up drug prices, appoint [Secretary of Education] Betsy DeVos to scam student loans, hurt immigrant kids.
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Singapore is a global trading hub for physical oil and 70 percent of the world's jack-up rigs are built there.
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The deal comprises 10 high-specification jack-up rigs and five more that are under construction, Borr said in a statement.
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I probably would be a little confused trying to get the jack up, but I would be able to do it.
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No equipment rental fees, and no worry that your provider will jack up their rates after the first year or two.
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Justice said both mergers would create near monopolies for the super-sized companies and set them free to jack up prices.
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To give a gift, an organization might have to jack up membership costs or accept the blow to its bottom line.
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Lower-skill workers are often excluded from jobs in booming areas because zoning regulations in those areas jack up housing costs.
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More subsidy reductions are expected before the end of the year, which will further jack up utility rates paid by consumers.
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In the market for jack-up rigs, improving rates could lead to reactivating some high-specification units in 2020, it added.
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They will make those payments — they will just jack up their premiums in order to have the money to do so.
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Otherwise, they could just jack up their licensing and royalty rates, and if Spotify refused to pay, they could pull their music.
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Why it matters: After his past moves in the industry, Shrkeli inspired at least 1 pharmaceutical CEO to jack up drug prices.
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ISPs like Comcast and Charter are currently facing numerous lawsuits for using sneaky fees to covertly jack up advertised prices post sale.
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Republicans have long railed against the funding, but insurers warn that they will have to significantly jack up premium costs without them.
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A 5 percent sales drop shows Tim Cook's company can no longer expect to sell significantly more phones or jack up prices.
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But there is a risk the Fed will have to jack up rates quickly, triggering a recession, he said in his speech.
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But the same study warns that they could also jack up demand for vehicle travel by making it cheaper and more convenient.
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Instead, they largely exist as a way for ISPs to jack up the monthly cost of service well beyond the advertised rate.
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While gentrification can improve an area, it can also jack up the cost of living, a worry in middle-class Crown Heights.
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Before Airbnb, blockbuster events allowed hotels to jack up their prices, and visitors weren&apost left with many other options, he explained.
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I thought these changes would have scared insurers away from the marketplaces, or at least encouraged them to jack up their prices.
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"Obamacare," for years, their replacement plan was incredibly unpopular because it promised to jack up premiums and leave millions more people without insurance.
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The brand told us that it's ready to jack up the Pink bath bomb with even more Hepburn references, we were so ready.
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Breakingviews also assumed Aramco could jack up production to 12.5 million barrels a day, where it has instead stuck at around 10.3 million.
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If you corner the market for something, you can jack up the price; others will have no choice but to buy from you.
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A separate class-action lawsuit from earlier this year accused Lilly and two other insulin makers of colluding to jack up prices together.
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The European Commission listed a raft of concerns about the combined company's ability and incentives to squeeze out rivals and jack up prices.
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But critics call him a gentrifier, accusing him of finding elaborate ways to jack up the rent in buildings already used by artists.
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If it is tempted to jack up its royalties—currently just 1-2% of the chip's selling price—that might upset chipmaker clients.
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Demand for shallow water or jack-up rigs has been steadily growing through 2017 after hitting a bottom at the end of 2016.
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They played extremely fast, shot a ton threes, forced opponents to jack up a bunch of long twos, and hustled back on defense.
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Lewandowski: I've heard theories that Discogs want to jack up prices and all sorts of things, but we're 100% hands off with pricing.
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If the funding is scrapped, it's anticipated that insurers would jack up premiums by around 20 percent or bolt the Obamacare markets altogether.
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UBS sees utilization for drill ships and jack-up rigs improving slightly next year, followed by greater demand growth in 2019 and 2020.
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Housing advocates have long argued that building owners routinely abuse those provisions, inflating construction costs to jack up rents and push out tenants.
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If everyone going to a given Trader Joe's suddenly has $203,000 more per month to spend, shouldn't Trader Joe's jack up prices in response?
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The Key 23 also has a headphone jack up top and a microSD card slot for storage expansion built into the SIM card tray.
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America said the tariffs would jack up prices for consumers and could have a chilling effect on hiring.
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It doesn't want to have to jack up rates dramatically and quickly in response to surging inflation, but if it had to it could.
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"Kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families — and will prompt retaliation from other countries," the senator continued in a statement.
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"This is the opportunity of a lifetime for the shipping lines to jack up prices because the entire industry expects increased costs," Berglund said.
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Regardless, a voter measure passed decades ago will present a challenge for insurance companies looking to jack up rates right after the California wildfires.
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It's what the Americans were doing as well — trying to jack up the number of people who were looking for migrants and deporting them.
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"I could jack up the price, but my customers would complain — it's not fair to them," said Mr. Chan, a native of Hong Kong.
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He's more likely to strap movement-tracking wristband on their arms to gather more data on how lazy they're being and jack up the quotas.
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The situation has gotten tenser in recent years, with EU members' finance ministers urging adjustments to the law that could jack up multinationals' tax burdens.
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AND IT WAS AN IMPORTANT POLICY TO JACK UP PRICES DRAMATICALLY – I MEAN, UNBELIEVABLY, ALMOST – FOR CERTAIN DRUGS THAT PEOPLE REALLY HAD NO SUBSTITUTE FOR.
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The book's thrashing of political correctness previews the stump message Trump's eldest son will use to jack up swing-state turnout by the Republican base.
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Why it matters: This is PhRMA's way of trying to get rid of smaller companies that mostly buy older drugs and jack up the prices.
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Foreign investors may also be happier to fund the UK current account deficit, putting less pressure on the Bank of England to jack up rates.
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Retailers use Valentine's Day as an excuse to jack up the price on anything that could potentially signify love, and paint it red and pink.
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Rowan said it will contribute three jack-up drilling rigs to the joint venture and Saudi Aramco will contribute two at the start of operations.
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The warning came as a new, anti-establishment government was close to taking office in Italy on pledges to cut taxes and jack up spending.
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If there's a scenario guaranteed to scare investors, it's one in which the Fed, caught out by inflation, has to frantically jack up interest rates.
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Rowan said it would provide three jack-up rigs and Saudi Aramco two when the joint venture begins operations in the second quarter of 2017.
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They cannot jack up the deductibles on someone who earns 200 percent of the poverty line, even though the government has stopped providing the money.
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The law would be retroactive from June 21th, so that anyone who attempts to jack up prices before it is passed could be fined €500,000 ($563,000).
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Walker's thought bubble as soon as he gives it up reads "pass it back right now!" but Lamb decides to jack up a wild three instead.
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Forty-six state attorneys general are expanding their lawsuit against generic pharmaceutical companies, alleging the firms colluded to jack up the prices of 15 generic drugs.
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During the Dease opening, Rhodora instructs Bryson to move some of Dease's excess paintings to storage (a play for Rhodora to eventually jack up the prices).
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Sprint's CEO said just last week he expects to jack up the price of unlimited data plans by as much as $20 to $30 for 5G.
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The carbs also jack up your insulin levels, which helps to shuttle nutrients into muscle cells, as well as having an anabolic effect on your muscles.
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The decision to jack up U.S. tariffs on goods from China fuelled bets on Friday that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates later this year.
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Already, some couriers have devised cheats that involve mailing parcels to themselves and rejecting them at delivery in order to jack up income, TechCrunch has learned.
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But is the GFE simply a marketable buzzword meant to bump up costs, like realtors who extend the borders of "hip" neighborhoods to jack up rents?
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More reason for New York tenants to be optimistic: Forty-four percent of New York units are rent stabilized, meaning owners can't jack up prices overnight.
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Puerto Rico says the shipping restrictions can jack up the cost of goods on the island by nearly 33 percent and often slow down cargo deliveries.
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Spicy Chickenjoy is even better, both marinade and breading infiltrated with some form of chile — flagrant but not searing, just enough to jack up the pulse.
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An antitrust class-action lawsuit accuses Baxter and Hospira (now part of drug giant Pfizer) of intentionally creating a saline shortage so they could jack up prices.
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There's no way he can jack up this car because it took my 17-year-old son and I both to jack it up the first time.
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Jack up your costume Meghan Markle-style with a cathedral-length veil and a pair of white pointed toe pumps to fully give off royal bride vibes.
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Gale also acknowledged that the TPC's estimates were static — meaning that they assume no change in economic behavior even under Sanders's proposal to significantly jack up rates.
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Others said they were blocked from selling in certain countries, and accused the company of artificially limiting the supply of Bitcoin Cash to jack up the price.
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It's not exactly clear why AT&T feels the need to jack up the amount of money it charges users without offering any tangible consumer benefit whatsoever.
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With no generic competitors emerging to challenge him, Shkreli was able to charge whatever he wanted, and proceeded to jack up the price by 5,000 percent overnight.
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Some, however, pointing to a large supply overhang in the jack-up market, with total supply counting more than 500 units, while current demand is around 300.
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They force Spotify to pay 70 percent or more of its revenue to them for royalties, and could jack up that price if Spotify got too profitable.
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Given the choice, Fed officials very much prefer the former option of not reinvesting the proceeds; the latter could create a supply glut and jack up rates.
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Only seven players averaged more field goal attempts (18.9) per game, and Steph Curry and Damian Lillard were the only ones to jack up more threes (9.6).
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Even if it could be done, costlier American labor and production facilities would seriously jack up the iPhone's cost, according to Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies.
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The new tariffs will jack up prices for consumers at the start of the back-to-school buying season, four large retail trade associations said on Thursday.
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"By eliminating the SALT deductions, Trump's tax bill will jack up taxes for more than half a million Marylanders," Frosh, a Democrat, said in a news release.
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They'll be able to jack up even more threes and go hunting in transition without fear of getting bludgeoned on the glass like they did last season.
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The prime concern is that a combined AT&T-Time Warner could jack up the rates it charges other TV distributors for content, increasing prices for consumers.
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Already home to some of the most expensive, heavily-taxed legal cannabis in the United States, California announced Thursday it would jack up taxes on commercial weed.
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For example, the hotel industry in the States routinely imposes resort fees also intended to misleadingly jack up the advertised price, a practice banned in many European countries.
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With the peso and the lira hitting record lows, Argentina has had to jack up interest rates to 40 percent in the third emergency hike in a week.
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Not surprisingly, those commissioners can (and do) reverse the in-house judge's rulings and find for the SEC staff, or jack up the penalties imposed on the defendant.
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In the episode, it's a little jarring to see Jack and Rebecca partying — Rebecca wakes Jack up on Super Bowl Sunday with a shot — given what we know.
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Without these programs to fall back on, many insurance companies likely will need to jack up their premiums even higher or bail out of the exchanges all together.
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But: The obvious fear is that insurers will use this information to jack up people's rates if they seem high-risk — even based on generalizations about tangential data.
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I jack up the price of my silver plan to $603, but don't change the price of the bronze or gold plans, because the subsidies don't apply there.
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What insurers did, working with state officials, is jack up the rates for only silver plans to make up for losing the cost-sharing payments that Trump ended.
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E-commerce sites like Etsy and Amazon have been scrambling to stop opportunistic sellers from exploiting the outbreak to mislead customers about their products or jack up prices.
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E-commerce sites like Etsy and Amazon have been scrambling to stop opportunistic sellers from exploiting the outbreak to mislead customers about their products or jack up prices.
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In Oregon in particular there have been complaints that hotels canceled or "lost" reservations made long ago so that they could jack up prices, then blamed … computer glitches!
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Medicare has no mechanism to jack up charges on drugs and preventive care for Texas elders while keeping them low in states that did not join Texas's lawsuit.
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It took him 20 shots to reach that mark — but really, who wanted to watch Jordan Clarkson or D'Angelo Russell jack up contested jumpers on a night like this?
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These plans could also potentially jack up premium prices on specific people or businesses with higher costs, driving them out of the associations and back to the regulated markets.
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The federal government, for example, imposed sweeping rent controls in 1942, fearing landlords would jack up rents to take advantage of the mass movement of people, threatening wartime production.
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It thinks it could jack up the fees it charges other video distributors, such as cable and wireless providers; if they balk, subscribers might decamp to its own offerings.
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RETAIL IMPACT The new tariffs will jack up prices for consumers at the start of the back-to-school buying season, four large retail trade associations said on Thursday.
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According to new reporting from The Washington Post, President Trump personally pushed United States Postal Service head Megan Brennan to jack up shipping prices on Amazon and other firms.
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And do they have the ability to jack up prices, because these two companies have essential -- have a very large near monopolies, as the government was trying to argue?
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Mullen said Shelf Drilling itself was not seeking a broad deal with Maersk, but could be interested in buying some of the Danish company's benign environment jack-up rigs.
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At my shows, I could jack up the ticket price for my peers, but I always have a price range available for that person who's always been my fan.
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While Russia is colluding with Saudi Arabia to jack up oil prices, the United States, which is emerging as a leading oil producer, is seeking to bring prices down.
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When he gets confirmed, it will jack up the Democratic base and just accelerate a process that is already going on, which is going to hurt Republicans big time.
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Right now, in a New York federal court, several pharmaceutical companies have been sued for allegedly conspiring to jack up the price of propranolol, a generic blood pressure medication.
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Buried in those increases however was an obnoxious and growing trend: the use of below the line fees to covertly jack up the advertised rate of Comcast TV service.
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But Trump has also embraced policies to restrict immigration, historically a key contributor to U.S. labor force growth, and jack up tariffs on trading partners including Mexico and China.
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Rather than using the event to jack up prices, Apple is selling the basic version of the iPhone 11 at a comparatively modest $699, which helps it retain customers.
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Borr owns a fleet of jack-up rigs, which drill in shallow waters such as in the Middle East and North Sea, competing with such firms as Valaris VAL.
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Government contractors are expected to jack up prices on everything from helicopters to IT support, growing wise to an administration that doesn't pay its bills for weeks on end.
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As an opening act, for example, Mr. Trump is pushing privatization of the nation's air traffic control system, which could jack up the price of air travel for passengers.
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Trump's trade pact also gives pharma the opportunity to jack up prices in Mexico, which currently lacks any exclusivity period for biologics, and Canada, which only has eight years.
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In fact, by making it more likely that provisions protecting pharma monopolies will be included in future trade agreements, it could jack up drug prices for the entire world.
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If you can resist getting lost in his eyes, listen to Evan explain all the ways this fish can jack up the ecosystem in Georgia ... pretty dreamy scary stuff.
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A leaky roof, for example, can jack up the cost of installation, and incentives that offset the upfront costs of solar only work if you pay enough taxes to qualify.
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Developers spied an opening: Any white faces made an area "safe" for those white tech bros and stroller moms, and owners could jack up rents once the neighborhood got whiter.
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But, ultimately, ELDs may have been a boon for truck drivers, as it forced trucking companies to hire more and, for a couple of reasons, jack up salaries for truckers.
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As part of the deal, Saudi Aramco's parent firm will buy 20 jack-up drilling rigs as well as offshore support vessels and services from the joint venture, Lamprell said.
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But if you jack up the price and sell these to your co-workers, one day you'll have enough cash on hand to buy a real Pizza Hut franchise.[YouTube]
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Where things get interesting though is with Xiaomi's handful of strategically selected features that make the Mi 9 just a bit fancier without forcing Xiaomi to jack up its price.
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Lilly is one of three drug companies at the center of a class-action lawsuit that accuses insulin makers and pharmacy benefit managers of colluding to jack up their prices.
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The reason: once ISPs begin zero rating some content, they often jack up the overall costs to access other content—in a bid to make their preferred content more attractive.
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This would immediately allow health insurance companies to jack up premiums on millions of people living with preexisting conditions, pricing millions of Americans out of the market and into bankruptcy.
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Citigroup has previously estimated that the USPS would need to jack up its rates by 50% to have economically sustainable parcel offerings on the same level as UPS or FedEx.
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In the past, a surge of claims led to higher prices as losses forced weaker players to cut risk, and the stronger or lucky ones to jack up premium rates.
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After weeks of fruitless talks between the various parties, 5-Star and the League finally agreed to a government pact last Friday, promising to hike taxes and jack up spending.
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Second, the Trump administration wants to jack up the price of admission to our most spectacular public lands while moving to cut the Park Service budget by almost $300 million.
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Insulin doesn't cost much to produce, but as a society we've allowed companies to jack up the price so high that many people with diabetes are now skipping lifesaving doses.
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We don't want to jack up insurance rates and cause a foreclosure crisis, and we want a smoother glide path to a better flood insurance program, and more accurate maps.
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Car rental insurance can jack up your bill quite a bit, and the good news is, your existing car insurance policy might come with some form of coverage for rentals.
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Gaga was in the middle of a performance for her Las Vegas residency show, 'Enigma,' Thursday night at Park MGM when she brought the fan, Jack, up to join her.
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This shows a lack of understanding of modern economics: If Ford buys a spark plug producer, they are not going to jack up prices on spark plugs or their cars.
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I think you can move the system to a lower price structure, but it probably has to happen slowly, gradually, which will jack up the initial cost of the plan.
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Despite its growth, Nike has also had to contend with the ongoing US-China trade war and tariffs that threaten to jack up prices on its products for American consumers.
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The current immoral mess where we are gouged by health insurers and Big Pharma who jack up prices and deny needed care all in the name of the almighty dollar.
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But at a certain point, as people are left on the sidelines of the labor market, employers actually need to jack up salaries in order to attract or keep workers.
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"This matters because giant corporations jack up prices and cut corners on quality," said Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who has been a highly visible advocate of the issue.
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When those waves finally reach the shallow water of a distant shore, the friction with the ocean floor causes them to slow down, bunch together and "jack up" in height.
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Getting more investment is critical to raising annual growth to 22 percent from 2314 percent - another ambitious Widodo target - at a time revenue shortfalls mean the government can't jack up spending.
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Much of the money will be used to serve the insurers' owners, for buying equities that owners are hoping to jack up, or investing in the owners themselves as trust products.
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But if you start piling on the upgrades, you can quickly jack up the price to something that feels exorbitant, especially if you're upgrading from a Series 5003 or Series 3.
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And there's a chance landlords would see a big rent-subsidy bill like one of these pass, and jack up rents in response to capture much or all of the subsidy.
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Campbell's. The soup company created the recipe with the Associated Press's longtime food editor, Cecily Brownstone, about 50 years ago — partially to jack up demand for their cream of mushroom soup.
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"I think we can see utilization moving into the 80s during the next 12 months," Borr's Chief Executive Simon Johnson told Reuters, referring to jack-up rigs, used in shallow waters.
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Seattle's minimum wage hike, which would jack up wages to $15 an hour by 22015 for companies with more than 22016 employees, was passed five years ago by the City Council.
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Sembcorp Marine, which competes with Singapore's Keppel Corp Ltd for building jack-up rigs, made a S$278 million provision in the fourth quarter for foreseeable losses on contracts in progress.
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If Mr. Trump got rid of them, the government would actually end up spending more money to subsidize premiums, which companies would jack up to make up for the lost revenue.
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CNBC is reporting that the 10 percent tariffs may indeed jack up prices on some products on September 1, but not on the consumer electronics that the USTR said were safe.
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More substantially, L&L will jack up the theater by three stories — just a few inches a day, starting in 2021, until it reaches its new level a few months later.
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Over 20 million people could lose their coverage as a result — and insurers would be able to deny medical coverage for pre-existing conditions and jack up prices for sick people.
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The U.S. decision to impose tariffs on imported solar cells will "jack up" the prices of solar panel installations for a "while", the CEO of European utility firm Enel said Tuesday.
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Experts say the real purpose of such limits is to covertly jack up your already expensive broadband bill—and punish customers looking to cut the cord on traditional cable TV services.
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Over the past few years, press reports have increasingly highlighted a handful of pharmaceutical companies that exponentially jack up the prices of drugs that consumers have no choice but to buy.
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But without the "community rating" provision, insurers could jack up the premiums for people with health problems — and make it so expensive that they lose coverage because they can't afford it anymore.
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OSLO, May 15 (Reuters) - Norway's Borr Drilling plans to buy five new jack-up oil drilling rigs from an Asian shipyard for a total of $720 million, the company said on Tuesday.
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Shkreli first became a household name when he decided to jack up the price of a life-saving HIV drug called Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 a pill in September of 2015.
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It's perhaps even harder to get your hands on one online, when Amazon sales are exhausted in minutes and eBay resellers jack up prices by three or four times the MSRP amount.
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An avowed democratic socialist narrowly won the New Hampshire primary, propelled by promises to jack up taxes on the rich, nationalize health care and take a sledgehammer to the nation's banking behemoths.
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The bottom line is that the government has been helping our institutions of higher learning jack up prices for so long, perhaps it's forgotten that it doesn't have to work that way.
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If the media jack up everything to 11, from Putin to family separation to a Michael Cohen tape about a Playboy model, then much of the coverage gets reduced to background noise.
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Downstream producers of steel and aluminum products — including car, plane and consumer goods manufacturers — say it will jack up their costs, and experts fear a trade war that could harm global growth.
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Lopez Obrador has said he will respect the central bank's independence and that he will not jack up government debt to pay for social spending, relying instead on fighting waste from corruption.
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But they can definitely slow down the process, jack up the cost, and force the Republican Party to take Texas ranchers and farmers to court to seize their land by eminent domain.
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For one thing, it will make it even easier for Republicans to smear Democrats as big-government socialists looking to jack up taxes to pay for inefficient federal giveaways to the poor.
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Historically, jack-up rigs used to lead the offshore drilling market's recovery as shallow water projects are less capital intense and take less time to start production than projects in deeper water.
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New van trouble for Rich Homie Quan, and this time he's the one filing a police report after someone broke into his tour van to jack up to $2k worth of stuff.
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That means, in turn, that other people and firms that want people to lend them money have to jack up interest rates to get money that would otherwise go to the government.
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It's still part of a larger trend of these sorts of big tech companies migrating to, or expanding in, already-hot markets, often serving to help jack up living expenses even more.
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Instead of just focusing ... The standard right now is consumer welfare, which means that if they don't jack up prices, if they don't do anything to actually ... And they deliver beautifully. Yeah.
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Analysts said yields, which move inversely to prices, could fall further even as central bankers in the United States talked of a tightening in monetary conditions that could jack up global interest rates.
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"It is important for India to get some barrels of crude from Iran otherwise if Saudi and major producers are not able to jack up their production, it will impact prices," he said.
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Either way, the market isn't convinced, and some analysts say that Valeant will never be what it once was because without the ability to jack up prices of the drugs that it acquires.
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Mylan says middlemen and suppliers have forced them to jack-up the prices on EpiPens by hundreds of dollars, but two industry insiders say the company pays no more than $1003 per device.
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The photographs, originally posted in a Baidu forum, show a slightly curvaceous phone as well as a 3.5mm headphone jack up top and what looks like a USB-C jack at the bottom.
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"Today we have eight premium jack-ups and we want to see that grow ... I would like to ultimately grow to a fleet of 15, maybe 20, premium jack-up rigs," Mullen said.
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Throughout 2016, when these secretive conversations were taking place, both New York state and the federal government were focused on legislation preventing the use of scalper bots that would jack up ticket prices.
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Stomp a Clefable if you're looking to jack up your HP. Slap a Dustox out of the air if you're looking for a boost in special defense, and so and and so forth.
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As cable providers continue to jack up prices and flail at efforts to improve customer service, more and more users are cutting the cord and embracing over the air (OTA) broadcasts via antenna.
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Democrats and liberals were unhappy about raising the regressive sales tax, which disproportionately affects the poor, and they resented a stealth move by the business lobby to jack up sales taxes still more.
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For example, not only has drug-maker Pfizer failed to provide permanent raises after saving a billion dollars in taxes this year alone, but it continues to jack up its inflated prescription prices.
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"Congress created FERC … to protect families, small-business owners and industry from monopolists and pricing schemes that jack up prices while at the same time ensuring an abundant supply of electricity," Johnston writes.
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The logic is that after a while you'd run out of people willing to buy government debt at current interest rate levels, and to get buyers you'd need to jack up the rates.
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Increasingly frustrated, I left after only seven months without realizing that this allowed the landlord — one of the mega-landlords, it turns out — to jack up the rent significantly twice inside a year.
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For example with the FCC's oversight now restricted, the agency has done nothing to police a rotating array of bogus fees and surcharges ISPs use to jack up the cost of your bill.
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The ultimate payoff of this scene is the fresh fang that Jimmy sinks into his brother's leg by highlighting — and exaggerating — Chuck's fragile mental state, which will jack up his insurance rates, too.
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Take, for instance, concert venues that know their events are likely to sell out quickly, and yet do not jack up ticket prices to hundreds or thousands of dollars to control the demand.
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If Amazon's past behavior is any guide, it'll put everyone from FedEx to the US Postal Service out of business and then jack up prices as quickly as possible once it becomes a monopoly.
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The company has grown quickly since its founding in 2016 via a series of acquisitions, focusing on jack-up rigs that are suitable to drill in shallow waters, such as in the Middle East.
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Madsen said the company currently didn't plan to expand its fleet or change its composition, two-thirds of which are jack-up rigs which drill in shallow waters while the rest are floating rigs.
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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the change would jack up premiums and lead to 13 million more uninsured people than there would otherwise be in 2010 years, and 4 million more in 2019.
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Hillary Clinton backed a series of broadly liberal policy goals in a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday, emphasizing her plan to jack up tax rates on the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations.
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He is, after all, managing to keep billions in taxpayer dollars flowing into the company, all the while laying off American workers only to jack up the price they'll pay for competitive internet speeds.
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Latin America's largest economy has nosedived after a ballooning budget deficit and high inflation prompted President Dilma Rousseff and the central bank to raise taxes, cut spending and jack up interest rates last year.
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Pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley says that that's bogus and that consumers will lose, while big corporations like Comcast will have free rein to jack up prices for different types of internet services.
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In Singapore, where the number of cases rose to 13 in the past week, the shortage of face masks prompted hundreds of online sellers to jack up prices — some by up to 20 times.
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But in truth, Burrito Justice settled on that number only because that's how high he needed to jack up the world's oceans if he wanted to wash out a particular road near his house.
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"I don't agree with consolidation, always done to extract capacity and jack up prices," CEO Akbar al-Baker said during a panel at the Bahrain Airshow on Friday, pointing to U.S. carriers as an example.
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In the tourist-magnet south, governments argued that low wholesale charges would hurt their local phone operators which play host to visitors, and force them to jack up rates for customers at home as well.
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Seized evidence from inspections, such as business emails and minutes from meetings, point to a cartel that schemed to jack up freight fees between 2009 and 2013 and perhaps longer, Indecopi said in a statement.
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Only four months ago it had its biggest rise in history on fears that accelerating U.S. wage growth would force the Fed to jack up interest rates far more aggressively than investors had bargained for.
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And with an easily removable SIM tray featuring a microSD card slot, a handy headphone jack up top, and stereo speakers on the Xperia 213 Plus, Sony's latest low-cost handsets come pretty well equipped.
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Forcing drug companies to shoulder more of the coverage gap costs will encourage them to jack up list prices so patients quickly enter catastrophic coverage — where taxpayers pick up a vast majority of the costs.
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But Saudi Arabia said it could jack up output instead - by as much as 2 million barrels a day to over 12 million, which would allow it to overtake Russia as the world's largest producer.
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You can't make Uber's business model ethical, because it's premised on spending tens of billions in venture capital to eventually achieve a monopoly, cut labor costs (wages, health care, etc.), and jack up passenger fares.
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As a team, the Cavs should favor patient, hero-ball situations, and be less inclined to jack up the first open shot they see (especially from players with "Shumpert" on the back of their jersey).
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Knowing that they will no longer receive cost-sharing payments and that Obamacare policies will tend to attract older and sicker people, insurers will probably jack up premiums or withdraw altogether in sparsely populated counties.
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The ride-hailing apps have done it before — something bad happens, like a terrorist attack or natural disaster, and disrupts mass transit service, and they jack up their fees because of all the increased demand.
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The Fed's decisions lifted the dollar and hit the Indonesian rupiah, making importing the figures more expensive, but Kurniawan resisted the urge to jack up prices, avoiding the folly of his favorite character, the Hulk.
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The plan is to get tons of people addicted to buying 2300-cent dollars so that, in a year or two, we can jack up the price to $21.6 or $20163 without losing any customers.
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Currently, under the Affordable Care Act, people who buy non-group health insurance and indicate that they consume tobacco products could face a tobacco-use surcharge, which can jack up a premium by 50 percent.
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"Insurance companies are going to jack up the rates," predicted Dr. Molina, who said premiums might increase even more than they did last year when some companies raised the rates by 25 percent or more.
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But there was another part of Clinton's remarks — where he raises the idea that insurers might jack up rates to increase their profits — that didn't square with anything I know about Obamacare and its implementation.
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"If you can jack up the power to the machine substantially, I think you can get at least a factor of two, maybe a factor of four or five improvement on top of that," he said.
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Maersk Drilling fleet utilisation rates stood at around 61 percent for floating rigs and 71 percent for jack-up rigs, below levels of around 85 percent which historically gave rig owners the power to increase rates.
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The argument that the subsidies wouldn't jack up rent is basically that rent boosts aren't different from any substantial cash payment to poor people, as rent is such a huge part of most poor households' budgets.
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BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - EU antitrust authorities opened on Friday an investigation into U.S. smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm's $38-billion bid for NXP Semiconductors , concerned that the merged company may squeeze out rivals and jack up prices.
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"If you can jack up the power to the machine substantially, I think you can get at least a factor of two, maybe a factor of four or five improvement on top of that, " he said.
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The problem: As monthly household bandwidth consumption soars courtesy of 4K Netflix streaming and other new services, many broadband users are likely to run into usage caps and overage fees that jack up their monthly rates.
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The company said it would use the proceeds to redeem all of its preferred shares and accrued dividends, as well as to buy one drilling rig to add to its fleet of 38 jack-up rigs.
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That's the biggest short since the end of January, just before the 'volmageddon' burst in early February when signs of higher U.S. wage inflation sparked concern that the Fed would have to jack up interest rates.
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And for every piece of efficient technology they ignore, automakers install another cup holder or electronic gizmo, jack up the price and increase profits by saddling buyers with a 20th-century product in 21st-century wrapping.
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The news will be thick with stories of counties where insurers jack up premiums to manage the market upheaval, and there will likely be some areas that find themselves with no insurers offering coverage at all.
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Good news for renters, bad news for landlords: To curb the shortage of affordable housing in New York City, government leaders have strengthened tenants' rights and abolished rules that allow property owners to jack up rents.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are asking E.ON's rivals whether the German utility's takeover of Innogy's businesses in an asset deal swap with RWE will harm competition or jack up prices in the German retail market.
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It has yet to make a formal offer of concessions to the Commission which opened a full-scale investigation into the deal in August after expressing preliminary concerns that it may reduce competition and jack up prices.
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Imagine advertisers knowing exactly how often you take your anti-depressants, weight-loss pills, or STD treatments, or your insurance company monitoring how strictly you follow treatment regimens and using that information to jack up your premiums.
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While higher oil prices LCOc1 are prompting an improvement in spending on global exploration and production, offshore rig order recovery will take some time as the market remains oversupplied, particularly for jack-up rigs, the company added.
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The theory is that online travel agencies and booking sites (like Expedia, Hotwire, or Kayak) use cookies to track your search history, and therefore might jack up the price on tickets they know you're planning to buy.
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This is just a greenhouse, but logically, there's no reason you couldn't jack up entire houses on a hydraulic mechanims—sure, you'd need a big motor, but replacing an entire floor of your house doesn't come cheap.
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Hemmingsen said the industry could see a "small uptick" in business this year, with increased demand for jack-up rigs for shallow waters, although there was still little sign of a boost in demand for deepwater rigs.
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Under the new GOP framework, insurers in states that waived community rating couldn't tell sick customers to take a hike, but they could jack up premiums enough to make insurance plans for these customers unaffordable or useless.
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By selling out to the far-left extreme of his party, the former vice president told hundreds of thousands of hardworking Americans that he is coming for their jobs and prepared to jack up their energy costs.
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The groups who brought the suit say that because Apple's rules prevent apps from being distributed outside of the App Store, it creates a monopoly that lets Apple jack up the price of software in its store.
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You cannot pivot at the knee joint, at least not in a healthy manner, so if you keep throwing round kicks without pivoting on the standing leg you are going to jack up your knee joint eventually.
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Advocates support eliminating two provisions that allow landlords to raise rents when they make building-wide improvements or renovate apartments — arguing that these tactics are routinely used to jack up rents, push out tenants and deregulate units.
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Reflecting the scale of investors' risk aversion, longer term market-based interest rates surged, implying the central bank will eventually be forced to jack up interest rates to protect the currency and maintain capital inflows from abroad.
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More than 200 U.S. footwear companies on Wednesday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to cancel proposed higher tariffs on Chinese imports that take effect beginning next month, calling them hidden taxes that will jack up consumer prices.
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The plan involves use of the Maersk Inspirer jack-up drilling rig as a production platform, but onshore preparations will not be complete until the second quarter, longer than previously planned, Repsol told Reuters in an email.
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They'd jack up the price of a commonplace item, say, a $70 iPhone charging cord, then "discount" it to a normal price, creating a giant discount percentage (85% off!!) to gain entry into the valuable Today's Deal page.
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"While the spot market for short term work remains competitive, rates for longer term work are improving and there are pockets of strength in the harsh environment, high-end ultra deepwater and premium jack-up markets," Dibowitz said.
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But to Evans, there is little risk the Fed will repeat the mistakes of the 1970s, when policymakers allowed the labor market to overheat, unleashing inflation and forcing the central bank to jack up rates aggressively in response.
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"So going into 2019 we should see some pricing power, and some real price movements," he said in an interview, adding the Middle East, North Sea and West Africa were the most promising regions for jack-up rigs.
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If any given state wants a way out of Obamacare's existing essential benefits or community rating rules requirements (both of which jack up minimum premium costs and restrict real insurance industry competition) it can apply for a waiver.
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The state attorneys general in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday, argue the bid to combine two of the nation's four top mobile carriers would jack up prices for customers, particularly low-income consumers, and result in unhealthy market concentration.
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Daniel Nam, executive director of federal programs for AHIP, America's Health Insurance Plans, said direct reimbursement using checks is just another way for manufacturers to make insurance companies pay for expensive drugs, which helps jack up monthly premiums.
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I can't imagine Amazon would really do anything as cynical as jack up the price of a book that ranks 600,000 on its best-seller list just because one person said he was planning to buy it. Right?
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"Kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families — and will prompt retaliation from other countries ... if the President goes through with this, it will kill American jobs — that's what every trade war ultimately does," Sen.
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Instead, they're going to jack up her already large legal costs and trauma, and only continue to drag this story out and highlight for the American public that this termination should never have happened in the first place.
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Related: This Is How Drug Companies Jack Up Their Prices and Hurt Patients Green also cites a 2004 study conducted by the Capital Health Authority in Alberta, which apparently found the product to be less effective than a placebo.
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On Thursday, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released an assessment of the bill that factored in growth effects and found the Senate version would still jack up the deficit to the tune of $1 trillion over ten years.
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Refiners in India, the world's third-biggest oil consumer, are diversifying crude imports as cheaper alternatives have emerged due to a global supply glut despite OPEC and some non-OPEC producers cutting output to try to jack up prices.
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When you jack up your car in a spot that's not a jacking point, you run the risk of damaging the underside of your car or the jack failing, which could be very dangerous if you're underneath the car.
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We'd jack up each side and put on his studded snow tires in November, just after Thanksgiving, so we could drive, the road sizzling under us, to the Ohio River Valley and up slick hills to visit our cousins.
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Many insurers must soon finalize rates and policies for next year, and experts say some might decide not to participate because they think the A.C.A. insurance marketplaces will go away, or jack up premiums due to the political uncertainty.
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The new duties could slash U.S. imports of EU cheeses valued at $1.5 billion a year by 30% and jack up prices across the country, said Marfuggi, who also serves as president of the Cheese Importers Association of America.
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World markets were thrown into a tailspin a few weeks ago when U.S. wage growth figures sparked fears that the Fed was behind the curve and would need to jack up borrowing costs far more aggressively than previously expected.
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So PJM wants to jack up capacity market prices, not because of any reliability problem, not because of any plausible forecast of a reliability problem, but because of vague fears that there might one day be a reliability problem.
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"Higher-ethanol blends still produce significant levels of air pollution, reduce fuel efficiency, jack up corn and other food prices, and have been treated with skepticism by some car manufacturers for the damage they do to engines," he says.
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In a world without network neutrality protections, you might be worried that once the service starts to get traction, major broadband providers would decide it's a competitive threat and jack up the fees to deliver content to their customers.
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It would serve us well to remember that Republicans and Democrats alike all watched corporations move into our cities to decimate small businesses, only to jack up prices and drop wages once they were the only game in town.
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Their best strategy might be to jack up menu prices and hope that you're willing to spend a few more dollars for the indulgent luxury of sitting on your ass, waiting for dinner instead of cooking or walking to a restaurant.
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The Fed hiked rates from near zero for the first time in a decade last December and Mester has warned that waiting too long to raise again could cause the central bank to jack up rates more aggressively down the line.
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"And in the case of the (Maracaibo) lake rigs, we'll also reach a deal for a different kind of operation," he added, in reference to Schlumberger's very specific jack-up rigs that are crucial for production in the western Maracaibo area.
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Hyundai joins a long line of companies trying to make super-strength suits a reality: Lockheed Martin made one in 2014, Panasonic recently made its own version and there are even some homemade versions that can jack up a small car.
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Saincome, whose satirical website was among those impacted by changes to the Facebook News Feed algorithm that killed web traffic to many publishers, told the Verge he expected the company to lure in creators and then jack up their cut.
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" Why it matters: "Health care specialists predict this $7 billion cut will trigger a destabilizing cascade that will jeopardize health care access for millions of Americans, as insurance companies jack up premiums or pull out of the federal exchanges altogether.
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In September, Transocean extended a crucial rig deal with Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras, while Noble Corp has signed a new drilling contract in the Middle East for its new jack-up rig and expects rising demand into 2019.
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It's the same reason why, if you as an American (or westerner for that matter) have ever visited a market in a third-world country, the shopkeepers immediately jack up the prices because they know you can afford to pay more.
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The sides of the device are encased by a sturdy and smooth metal bumper, similar to the kind seen on earlier Moto models, with a headphone jack up top and microUSB charging port down below (no USB-C yet, mind).
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One of the best things to come out of the whole EpiPen debacle is EpiPen Tycoon, a game that lets you jack up the prices of the lifesaving allergy treatment as much as possible before the angry Twitter mobs take over.
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I find it even more infuriating when pharmaceutical companies play the same tax avoidance game, but also jack up the prices of essential and unique medications by several hundred percent, and expect taxpayers to foot the bill through federal insurance programs.
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Last year, the Department of Justice sued to block AT&T's latest merger, explaining in detail how AT&T would use its newfound power to jack up prices for "must have" Time Warner content like HBO, harming consumers and competitors alike.
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It was all part of a real estate scheme designed to jack up rents and illegally lift hundreds of apartments out of rent regulation in New York City, according to a lawsuit filed by the state attorney's general office on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Over 200 U.S. footwear companies on Wednesday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to cancel proposed higher tariffs on Chinese imports that take effect beginning next month, calling them hidden taxes that will jack up consumer prices.
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That was leveled at Ed Lee, it was leveled that a lot of people, the idea that these companies got to come and get all kinds of gimmes and the people get to buy the houses and then jack up prices.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's antitrust regulator said a plan by the country's top billboard firm to buy its largest rival may jack up the prices charged to advertisers while cutting service levels, a sign it may block the A$735 million ($545 million) deal.
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Anti-tourism marches have been organized in Mallorca and San Sebastian , and Barcelona residents have been especially vocal about home-sharing services such as AirBnb and HomeAway leading entrepreneurs and landlords to buy up whole buildings and jack up rent, The Independent reported.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian law firm filed a class action lawsuit on Monday against five major international investment banks accusing them of colluding to rig foreign exchange rates during 2008-2013 to jack up profits at the expense of businesses and investors.
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If the costs in this pool are higher than expected, Washington does not kick in any extra money under Graham-Cassidy and the state may be forced to introduce caps or jack up premiums and deductibles to deal with the cash shortage.
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However, the biggest motive for FaceApp to collect your information is most likely ad targeting, and the motive to make a scary face-aging filter is likely just to jack up downloads so that more people are dumping info into the data set.
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While add-ons like flavored syrups and non-dairy milks tend to jack up the cost of a drink because they're expensive, as a customer, what you're really paying for are things like rent, utilities, employee wages, and insurance for the business.
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A new lawsuit filed Thursday by the Self-Insured Schools of California accuses Mylan and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries of conspiring to jack up the price of their albuterol sulfate tablets — generic prescription pills that help people with asthma and other acute respiratory conditions.
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The repeal of the individual mandate will force insurers to leave the Affordable Care Act market if they believe it's no longer worth the headache, or they will jack up premiums to cover the costs of a population that likely will be sicker.
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Okea also said it is considering installing a jack-up rig with a floating storage and offloading facility, or a wellhead platform, and that its aim is for a per-barrel break-even price below $35-40 when production starts in 2020-22.
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Also, it turns out that the difficulty options for combat just jack up enemy health (from "burly guys" to "walking tanks") and how perceptive they are (from "sharper than you'd expect" to "absolutely inhuman"), which is about the most boring thing possible.
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"I can't understand why someone would take a medication that people need and jack up the price," said the man, who grew increasingly agitated as he told Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, prosecutors and defense lawyers why he could not be a fair juror.
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In his latest letter to investors in Third Point, the high-profile hedge-fund manager argues that a combination of rate hikes and operating leverage will jack up returns for U.S. lenders and investment banks before any tax cuts or regulation take effect.
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But Axios asked the American Hospital Association if CMS had valid points with the policy, given that independent experts agree the current system gives incentives for hospitals to buy doctors' offices so they can jack up rates and add on facility fees.
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And if Dorsey is forced to produce growth numbers at all costs, he might have to abandon his calibrated improvements to make Twitter more civil and more useful without alienating its fans, and do just about anything to, um, jack up the numbers.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As South Africa prepares to go into a 21-day national lockdown to stem the coronavirus outbreak, poorer residents fear being exposed to worsening violence and scams as security companies jack up patrols in wealthier neighbourhoods.
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"Cortisol's main job is to boost your blood sugar, and adrenaline's main job is to jack up your blood pressure, so you have fuel and a delivery method to sustain your muscles and brain in dealing with an aversive threat," he'd explained.
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The Solar Energy Industries Association estimates that the imposition of higher tariffs and minimum prices on imported solar cells and panels would jack up domestic prices of these products, leading to a loss of 85033,000 American jobs in the U.S. solar industry.
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They had spent weeks debating the issue with friends in a group chat on WhatsApp: Alfie: If we leave the first years will be tough as in a lot of the countries would jack up prices for tariffs but that's short term.
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"Last-minute sales used to be common, but nowadays, airlines jack up the price in the final days before departure in order to get as much revenue as possible from business travelers who tend to wait until late to book their flights," Keyes tells Refinery29.
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Mourdoukoutas writes that the government should stop funding libraries in part to save taxpayers a vague (and within the article, never quantified) amount of money and also to jack up Amazon's stock price for some reason:Amazon should open their own bookstores in all local communities.
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The move was praised, for example, by the Wall Street Journal editorial board, which argued that cities are likely to pit telecom companies against one another in an effort to jack up utility pole rental fees beyond what the newspaper determined are fair market rates.
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Having watched sterling crash to a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar on Brexit fears, the BoE will likely next week jack up its inflation forecast to show a bigger overshoot of its price target than any time since it gained independence in 1997.
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I heard one from Larry Levitt at the Kaiser Family Foundation: The Trump administration could still try to block states and health plans from their CSR workaround (where they jack up the rates for only certain plans, thereby increasing the size of the premium subsidies).
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" Rudy looks to jack up pressure on probe's one-year anniversary - Bloomberg : "President Donald Trump and his legal team are planning to use the one-year anniversary this week of Robert Mueller's appointment to ratchet up pressure on the special counsel to close his investigation.
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And he will likely to take the opportunity to indicate that while he will look to further reduce taxes as a second-term president, his Democratic opponents would jack up tax rates and possibly jeopardize stock market gains that have lifted Americans' retirement accounts.
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MINNEAPOLIS, March 31 (Reuters) - Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said Friday that on his thus far unsuccessful crusade to persuade policymakers to jack up capital requirements for big U.S. banks, he is taking a cue from the struggle for gay marriage rights.
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The woman was apparently trying to sneak all 40 pounds of phones from Hong Kong into mainland China where steep taxes on Apple products can jack up the price of an iPhone by 30 percent more than in Hong Kong, according to the Verge.
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Not as a board member, whether it's going to sell or not, what's it gonna do, is Jack going to have yet another ... I put Jack up for the Uber job, by the way, so he'd have three jobs, 33 percent of each one.
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Calls to jack up tax rates and spend trillions on government-provided health care conjures up the days when New Hampshire was a Republican stronghold in New England and when bashing Democrats as "tax-and-spend liberals" was a favorite tactic in the GOP playbook.
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So, if Trump moves to restrict imports of steel rebar, which ran at about 1.5 million tons last year, he will be handing over the market to two companies that would have a serious incentive to jack up prices, given the lack of competition.
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Consumer advocates and watchdogs like Public Knowledge have been warning that modifications proposed by ASCAP, BMI, and publishers could create new avenues of abuse that would leverage market power to jack up fees to internet music services—which would undoubtedly be passed on to consumers.
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The Reagan era cuts were ostensibly designed to make the public sector more efficient by harnessing the power of the market, but instead it made public agencies reliant on for-profit contractors that jack up costs, only making government less efficient and more wasteful.
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But even before all of that, 5G networks are still few and far between across the US and will likely jack up your phone bill, so don't feel as though you need to rush to buy a new phone just to hop on 5G.
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The NFL knows this, and is expected to jack up renewal rates on all of its major broadcast packages -- Thursday night, Sunday afternoon, Sunday night and Monday night, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to speak publicly because negotiations are private.
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A lot of people would just stop working because of their newfound riches, corporations would have to jack up wages dramatically to keep their labor force, those higher wages would lead to higher prices, and the resulting inflation would wipe out most or all of the gains.
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AT&T's ownership of Time Warner will give AT&T exclusive ownership of "must have" content like HBO, giving the Dallas-based telecom giant the ability to jack up the licensing costs of such content for companies trying to compete with AT&T's own TV services.
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While there are obviously plenty of things to keep users from Comcast, the company is kind of laying out an unattractive bid for future customers if they're just going to uniformly jack up the price every time they reach a worthwhile deal with a major network.
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Trump also lied with enthusiastic regularity, again saying he opposed the second Iraq war before it started (he didn't), claimed his opponent would jack up the tax rate on the middle class (she says she won't) and protested that he did not Tweet at 3 a.m.
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With those drug companies continuing to jack up the prices of prescription drugs on struggling families, voters especially want leaders who are unafraid to stand up to Big Pharma and willing to work with anyone, regardless of their political party, in order to lower prescription drug costs.
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They say Tidal allegedly boosted the numbers by several hundred million streams ... which would jack up the royalties paid to Bey and Ye. The heirs are asking the judge to reconsider the order that granted Tidal exclusive streaming rights for an upcoming album of unreleased Prince music.
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Higher Prices Aren't Really Their FaultA common refrain by the industry is that it's been forced to jack up the list price of drugs due to pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), third-party programs that negotiate down prescription drug prices for customers through rebates they obtain from the company.
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A pair of writers in New York are about to put on a "musical caper comedy" about Shkreli, and since they don't own any antimalarial medications, they can jack up the prices of, they've turned to IndieGoGo to help foot the bill and off-set some production costs.
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Yellen for the second time in two days warned that a delay in tightening monetary policy could drive up inflation and force the Fed to jack up rates in response, sending the economy into a tailspin that might have been avoided if the rate hikes had been more gradual.
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Right now, a foreign ship that wants to take relief goods to the island would have to either pay hefty tariffs if it lands there or reload its cargo onto a U.S.-flagged ship on the mainland — two options that critics say jack up costs and slow down shipments.
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The Reds front office recently decided to jack up their most expensive Main Stand ticket prices from £56 to £77 for next season, and so Liverpool fans have cheekily decided to stage a walkout of Anfield at the 77th minute of Saturday's match against Sunderland, according to the Independent. Symbolism.
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The most sorely lacking feature in Marketplace is a way for buyers and sellers to rate each other and note things like that the item was in worse condition than listed, the seller tried to jack up the price last-minute, or that the buyer showed up late or flaked out.
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China currently produces more than 90 percent of the world's supply of rare earth materials (the exact figure tends to fluctuate year-by-year), and in the event of a conflict, said reports, it could jack up prices for the West and its allies, or even shut them out altogether.
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Living in a unit that has "rent control" or is "rent stabilized" (the difference is subtle, but important, and informs what percentage the landlord can raise your rent per year) is always preferable because it means your landlord can't jack up your rent to an untenable amount whenever they want.
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Fed policymakers did not jack up their expectations for rate hikes in coming years, as some analysts had thought, instead sticking closely to rate hike path forecasts outlined in June that envision short-term rates, now at 2.0 percent to 2.25 percent, to be at 3.1 percent by the end of next year.
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Photo: Elizabeth Williams (AP)So-called "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli earned the eternal ire of the public when he was the CEO of a company called Turing Pharmaceuticals, which he had buy up the rights to and jack up the price of life-saving drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 a pill.
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But the Times story shows that Wells Fargo employees were victims of merciless pressure across the company to jack up the number of accounts per customer, resulting in as many as five accounts for a single person, including accounts that were supposed to be used on special days like Christmas or a family member's birthday.
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Absent the kind of nonstop conflict over debt ceilings and sequestration cuts and continuing resolutions, the political media turned its attention to the 2016 race, while Washington Republicans made deals with themselves and minority Democrats to reverse military cuts, jack up domestic spending, and just wave the whole debt-ceiling thingie off until 2017.
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That helps you see far into the night and be seen from far away (especially with a strobe function), and it provides plenty of light for working at night, more than illuminating the space you need to see as you jack up the car, affix jumper cables, or pour in a can of gasoline.
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Just a day after confirming that it would jack up production by about 2.5 million barrels per day starting April 1 in a battle for market share with Russia and US producers, state oil company Saudi Aramco said it would increase its "maximum sustainable" capacity by 20143 million barrels to 13 million per day.
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But any negative connotations of such behavior pales in comparison to the profit engineering Chicago-based Valor Equity Partners has overseen, as a key investor in Marathon Pharmaceuticals, the Illinois-based drug company that tried to jack up prices on its Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to a whopping $89,000 (or an equally outrageous $54k after various rebates and discounts).
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Simply put, Uber is losing money in part because its fares are too low; it's long-game is to undercut competitors long enough for them to go out of business so it can jack up prices, or to develop driverless car technology before it completely runs out of money, pushing its expenses on drivers down toward zero.
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And while Mylan CEO Heather Bresch did not give a clear cut reason why prices for the EpiPen were stable until Mylan took control of the product back in 2628 and began to jack up prices year after year, she did inadvertently motivate Congress to take a step towards addressing some issues with the pharmaceutical industry that have been avoided for years.
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Why it matters: The heart of the Department of Justice's argument in suing to block the proposed $85 billion merger for suing to block the merger is that vertically integrating AT&T (a content distributor) and Time Warner (a content creator) would give Time Warner incentive to withhold its content from AT&T's competitors — or to jack up the price.
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The Commerce Department's recommendation to impose tariffs ignores history--and it ignores the reality that U.S. manufacturing will ultimately be the loser with these protectionist policies "Kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families — and will prompt retaliation from other countries ... if the President goes through with this, it will kill American jobs — that's what every trade war ultimately does," Sen.
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Related: This Is How Drug Companies Jack Up Their Prices and Hurt Patients Leaked diplomatic papers dated in late April and obtained by Knowledge Ecology International show that high officials in Colombia's Embassy in Washington warned the government back home that they were receiving pressure from the US Congress and the Office of the Unites States Trade Representative to pull back from its conflict with Novartis.
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A chart in the paper illustrates this phenomenon, though again you should note that this doesn't include hidden fees, usage caps, overage penalties and other "creative" surcharges routinely used to covertly jack up prices even further post sale: The study is quick to highlight how the end result of this lack of competition is routinely ugly for vast swaths of America, assuming you can get broadband in the first place.
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The key is to target our sanctions carefully to end up with a diversion of trade from Chinese firms to other low-cost global suppliers, rather than to end up with a large price impact as domestic firms jack up prices once sheltered from foreign competition (as has been reported to be the case in some segments of the steel market, even while the overall impact of the steel tariffs are modest).
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Saudi Arabia has evidently acknowledged that Bashear Assad will rule Syria and since Moscow has rebuffed Saudi and Israeli demands that it moderate its support for or restrain Iran's ambitions to dominate Syria and Lebanon, this means that Moscow has prevailed at no visible cost over both of them and thus the U.S. In addition, Russia and Saudi Arabia continue to collaborate to reduce energy supplies and jack up the price of oil and gas.
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From USA Today: Right-wing healthcare wonks hate the ACA for a host of reasons, but they appear to hate the AHCA almost as much: Two versions of the homepage of what is normally a very Trump-friendly media outlet: Even before any bill was introduced to the public, AARP, the senior advocacy group with an enormous amount of political power, was gearing up to fight any Republican plan that would allow insurers to jack up rates on older people.
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