Jacking up the price of bread on the unsuspecting public.
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How do you look at it, besides jacking up prices?
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"Senator Biden, your plan will keep and allow insurance companies to remain with status quo, doing business as usual, and that's going to be about jacking up co-pays, jacking up deductibles," Harris said.
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Normally competition between firms prevents them from jacking up their prices.
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Still mad at Amazon for jacking up the Prime price by $20?
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The result is basically clean hair without jacking up your water bill.
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Big Pharma is jacking up prices for one reason -- because it can.
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That's why they keep jacking up tuition faster than the rate of inflation.
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But Uber will be jacking up the price for customers in these new cities.
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Monopolies, therefore, often push profit-driven corporations to ignore quality while jacking up prices.
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Mylan came under criticism last year for jacking up the price of the EpiPen.
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We would organize these little sting operations to catch vendors jacking up the prices.
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Colleges can keep jacking up the cost of the loan principal all they want.
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Congress has railed against pharmaceutical executives for jacking up the prices of some medicines.
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Rougned Odor jacking up Jose Bautista's face is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Funny how they thought jacking up the price was justified if that was the case.
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Before you begin jacking up your car, it's important to locate your car's jacking points.
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They prohibit insurance companies from jacking up the insurance rates because they got sick or injured.
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Instead, Doom Eternal dramatically expands the scope of Doom, jacking up the action in all directions.
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Instead, Doom Eternal dramatically expands the scope of Doom, jacking up the action in all directions.
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However, Campo stressed that the company is "absolutely not" jacking up rent prices to meet demand.
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There were bribes to cross checkpoints, price-gouging and regular merchants jacking up prices for scarce supplies.
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They were answering questions about the company's practice of buying drugs and jacking up their prices. 8.
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But paid users might want to think twice — especially if LastPass keeps jacking up prices without warning.
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Colleges can keep jacking up the cost of tuition, which is the loan principal, all they want.
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"Honestly, I really think it's just pharmaceutical companies jacking up the price of the drug," she said.
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It would add 2,500 more stores around the world, jacking up the number from 303,500 to 9,000.
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Further, he says Aryn's jacking up the expenses as a de facto way to get more spousal support.
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It's worth noting the caveats here: Hobson isn't lifting the entire weight, just jacking up the rear wheels.
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Because there's no generic alternative, EpiPen manufacturer Mylan just keeps jacking up the price and ripping off patients.
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As demand for this drug increases, pharmaceutical companies know they can get away with jacking up the price.
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They slid in the speculum, widening it, like they were jacking up a car to change a tire.
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Amazon has booted almost 4,000 sellers off its platform for jacking up their prices during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Stoking the global economy by jacking up population is a recipe for environmental disaster and widespread human suffering.
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Like any other Republican would, he did criticize the law for its insurance regulations and for jacking up premiums.
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MFIs, for their part, found new clients among those their normal lending criteria excluded—without jacking up interest rates.
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Without the three-fifths clause jacking up the power of the slaveholding interest, Indian Removal would not have passed.
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The movie ticket subscription service is jacking up its monthly price and making some changes to the way it operates.
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For our country, which is saving and investing next to nothing, jacking up consumption is the last thing we want.
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Jacking up the monthly cost of YouTube TV surely won't sit well with customers, but it's not all bad news.
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He tired of jacking up his old one after it sank four times so that the doors would not open.
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Jacking up the cost of a few days in Riga or on the Costa del Sol will be politically unpopular.
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These premiums cover the medical costs for sick participants and preclude insurers from jacking up prices or fleeing the exchanges.
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But one factor that thankfully did not come into play was jacking up Manafort's sentence simply for proceeding to trial.
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It involves buying licensing rights to a medicine, jacking up the price and putting the rights back on the market.
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He tired of jacking up his old one after it sank four times so that the doors would not open.
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"Senator Biden, your plan will keep and allow insurance companies to remain with status quo, doing business as usual, and that's going to be about jacking up co-pays, jacking up deductibles," said Harris, who has proposed a Medicare for All system that would all but eliminate private insurance and largely supplant Obama's program.
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The basin's geology allows producers to extract oil economically, but contractors are jacking up prices as drillers pile into the region.
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Pearson led Valeant since 2008, building the company up on the controversial practice of acquiring drugs and jacking up the prices.
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Even Martin Shkreli, who became the poster boy for jacking up drug prices, called Mylan executives "vultures" for the price hike.
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In a nutshell, he thinks the guy is a "sh**head" for infamously jacking up the price of cancer/AIDS meds.
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If you haven't yet heard, Amazon is jacking up the price of annual Prime memberships by $212.99 starting Friday, May 240.
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Today, with half the league jacking up at least one three-pointer for every three shots, it's more like self-mutilation.
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Democrats are likely to raise taxes on the middle class, but are absolutely clear about jacking up rates on high earners.
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Shortly after tariffs were announced, steel suppliers, no longer as fearful of price competition, began jacking up prices — they're no fools.
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If I were him, I'd be too proud to accept my fate and then I'd keep jacking up ill-advised threes.
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By jacking up product prices and distributing the increased profits to shareholders, executives lift stock prices and their take-home pay.
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It's possible that Apple is jacking up the price on AppleCare+ for the iPhone X due to the screen being more expensive.
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A North Carolina resident, for example, could see her bill cut by nearly 53 percent for jacking up the deductible to $2,000.
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The House of Representatives is investigating the company for jacking up the prices of two heart medications over 200% and 500% respectively.
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Rather than searching for weapons and other contraband, soldiers extort bribes at checkpoints to pay for their habit, jacking up transport costs.
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But there is a real risk of falling behind the curve and jacking up rates so quickly a recession ensued, he said.
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While lawmakers have railed against pharmaceutical executives and accused them of jacking up prices, they haven't passed major legislation on the issue.
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Valeant tried to address the problem by acquiring companies, slashing research outlays and jacking up prices to keep the top line growing.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's son was at the gym Wednesday, and flaunted his muscles in a short vid of himself jacking up 120 lb.
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We also took aim at this industry's practice of suddenly jacking up your price after months, and sometimes years, with almost no warning.
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But despite this jacking up of expectations and experience, retail workers' compensation — characterized by low wages and insufficient hours — are not keeping up.
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Jacking up prices during a disaster is illegal in Texas, and the state attorney general has warned businesses against taking advantage of residents.
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Basically, it prevents bidders from jacking up the price since they don't know how others are bidding on the item up for auction.
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Valeant attempted to address the problem by acquiring companies, slashing R&D outlays and jacking up prices to keep the top line growing.
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That would include recent outrages like the United Airlines passenger dragging fiasco or Mylan Laboratories jacking up the price of its EpiPen products.
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It requires insurers to sell coverage to anyone who wants it and bars insurers from jacking up prices to those with preexisting conditions.
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It could be in fact not buying more U.S. Treasurys or selling some U.S. Treasurys they currently hold, jacking up our borrowing costs.
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When incumbent manufacturers realize that price hikes will result in new entry, they may be deterred from jacking up prices to begin with.
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Except there are the egregious moral implications of jacking up the lives of everyone in all those other timelines and just peacing out.
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Part of that shift, as I've already suggested, comes from the fact that ethanol is no longer jacking up the price of corn.
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So in the past few years, insurance companies have responded by jacking up costs for anybody ticketed for using their phone while driving.
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Shkreli, who gained notoriety for jacking up the price on life-saving drugs used by AIDS and cancer patients, was convicted in August.
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What makes this game so exciting is that both teams can be effective without jacking up the first three-point opportunity they see.
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She tried to do that this week by slamming the pharma company Mylan on her Twitter feed for jacking up the price of EpiPen.
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Mylan recently came under fire for price gouging after jacking up the price of the EpiPen from $57 in 2007 to over $600 today.
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That measure has largely failed as bankers responded by jacking up the risk premium they assigned to new loans to avoid cutting lending rates.
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For reference, Shkreli is serving seven years in prison for illegally jacking up the price of a vital medication used against AIDS-related illnesses.
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Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday that authorities have fined retailer Scheman & Grant Hardware for jacking up prices of disinfecting sprays, wipes and hand sanitizer.
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A bonus: Once incumbents realize that price hikes will result in fresh competition, they may be deterred from jacking up prices to begin with.
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A traditional procedural goes like this: Make clothes, sell them, and items that don't sell get discounted, eating into margins and jacking up retail prices.
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The room opened yesterday and costs $349 a night, which sounds like a bargain given the current crypto-induced jacking up of GPU prices worldwide.
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Cinema chains have relied instead on sprucing up theatres and jacking up prices—to $9.16 per ticket this year, and even higher in big cities.
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Given that they've got no tactility, I invariably end up hitting the wrong one, more often than not jacking up the volume in the process.
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Think about it this way: If you were Dany's life insurance agent at the Iron Bank, you'd be jacking up her premiums after this episode.
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So chart it out with me here: Jacking up income taxes harms the economy, leads to higher interest rates, and does not generate additional revenue.
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A class action lawsuit involving 67 diabetics has been filed against Novo, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi for jacking up prices on the live-saving drug.
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After the Trump administration cut off key Obamacare subsidies, many health insurers made up the difference by jacking up premiums just on their silver plans.
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The alleged deal resulted in those companies jacking up the price of the drug from $350 to more than $3,000 for a 30-day supply.
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More disasters struck the longer the cross-party bickering dragged on, jacking up the legislation's overall price tag and further complicating the task of enactment.
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Hotel rooms in some of those places have been booked years in advance, while others are booting customers with existing reservations and jacking up prices.
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In a lawsuit, Daphne and her husband say the landlord's bypassing rent control laws, and annually jacking up the monthly rent on their NYC apartment.
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Sometimes Siakam forces the issue, lowering his shoulder into a 1-on-3 blockade and then jacking up a shot that doesn't even draw iron.
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Beijing demonstrated the tools it has at its disposal to fight a currency rout this week by jacking up interest rates for yuan held off shore.
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They asked all groups their views on the propriety of market pricing in two different areas: Uber surge pricing, and florists jacking up prices on holidays.
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Three U.S. senators are taking the $24 billion drug firm to task for jacking up the cost of its anaphylaxis treatment more than fivefold since 2008.
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Ankara has accused retailers of jacking up food prices, calling it "food terror", and set up its own markets to sell cheap vegetables directly to shoppers.
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LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Britain might ease a European Union rule blamed by insurers for jacking up capital requirements, the Bank of England said on Tuesday.
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Aside from the hilarity of Michael Beasley jacking up 15 to 20 shots a game, there's very little reason to watch the rest of the way.
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When a federal court found pharma bro Martin Shkreli guilty in August, it had nothing to do with jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.
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Lawsuit smackdown: Big Pharma is getting slammed with lawsuits for creating super addictive painkillers that are jacking up the opioid crisis in America to unprecedented levels.
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I bought the Chilton, bought the pads and sat in a parking structure, jacking up the car with a little screw jack that threatened to buckle.
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For instance, the AARP has denounced Ryancare for eating into the Medicare trust fund, sunsetting the Medicaid expansion, and jacking up premium rates for older Americans.
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This has been a trend going back to the 1970s — the suburbs blaming Detroit for jacking up their rates — and it was just completely not true.
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Many insurance plans are nervous that the Trump administration won't enforce the mandate to purchase coverage, and they are jacking up their premiums as a result.
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Twitter has suspended Martin Shkreli, the wealthy pharmaceutical CEO who drew attention and ire in 2015 after acquiring, then jacking up the price of, an HIV drug.
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He's turning the corner with ease, jacking up more threes off-the-bounce, and generally resembling the free and confident blue chipper he was six months ago.
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But there still is nothing stopping drug companies from buying old, inexpensive drugs and jacking up their prices — the type of behavior that made Martin Shkreli infamous.
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The tech leviathan has emerged in recent years as an extremely powerful modern monopoly while jacking up rents, fomenting inequality, destroying smaller businesses, and demanding tax breaks.
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The next year, Pearson became the company's CEO, and turned it into an extraordinarily profitable venture by laying off scientists and jacking up prices on proven drugs.
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But his fiscal push included highly unpopular cuts to public utility subsidies, which increased inflation by jacking up power and heating gas bills for businesses and families.
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Oddly, the bill is named the Taxpayers Before Insurers Act, but in the end, it harms every American by jacking up their health insurance premiums even higher.
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Hundreds of cities along the zone of totality braced for a deluge of tourists by selling millions of pairs of viewing glasses and jacking up hotel rates.
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In exchange for running the risk of jacking up its customers' insurance premiums, the car manufacturer is offering drivers $10 off of an oil change and other rewards.
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The pharmaceutical company has seen its shares plunge more than 73 percent in 2016 amid severe criticism for jacking up the prices dramatically on several of its drugs.
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Middleton is one of the league's unsung tough-shot-makers, but he also has a lower True Shooting percentage than last year despite jacking up way more threes.
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When push comes to shove, wiping out the insurance industry and jacking up taxes is a scary prospect for a lot of politicians, donors, and change-averse voters.
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Yet despite jacking up employment at the fastest rate in the survey's more than 20-year history, with the subindex rising to 57.9 from 57.3, delivery times grew.
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They're very similar to nightmares, but instead of lurching you awake in a cold sweat, they sort of prod you into consciousness by jacking up your stress levels.
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The ban follows reports that sellers were jacking up prices for medical products on Facebook's Marketplace as well as deceptively advertising face masks and other prevention-related products.
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Cuban claimed that 3M's distributors have been selling the N95 masks to resellers in black markets who are jacking up the prices even higher than the distributors did.
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Meg and Harry caught a rash of crap for jacking up their carbon footprint on a gas-guzzling private jet to visit Elton John in France last month.
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By jacking up fees for checked bags, carriers are encouraging people to fill their carry-ons to the brim so as to avoid taking a second piece of luggage.
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Russian authorities have already named and shamed hotels caught jacking up room prices ahead of the World Cup, with some increasing nightly rates by as much as 5,000 percent.
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With Kang's steel frame as the anchor, the ideas of the three artists skitter about the room, scoring points off one another and otherwise jacking up the collective experience.
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But the company is already jacking up prices for its streaming TV customers, something AT&T repeatedly stated wouldn't happen during the company's sales pitch for the controversial deal.
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If I was looking for a universal sign that it was time to quit social media, a Trump supporter jacking up a pierogi status update was pretty much it.
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It now appears that many insurers severely underpriced their premiums, and they are now making up for that error by either jacking up rates or simply leaving the marketplace.
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A lobbying group representing some of America's largest consumer brands wants the Justice Department to stop retailers from jacking up prices on hand sanitizer, masks and other coronavirus essentials.
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That's what's happening today in Washington, where off-market plans are jacking up prices when employees get sick, and businesses are facing a disincentive to hire older and female workers.
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Or some 20-track album is just so unjustifiably long that the process of listening feels laborious, a dense wade through the artist's journey toward jacking up their streaming numbers.
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Worse, 103K game streaming will run face first into broadband usage caps and overage fees that serve no technical purpose—outside of jacking up your already costly monthly bandwidth bill.
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As JAB grows, analysts increasingly liken it to 3G, a feared Brazilian investment group that snaps up makers of consumer products like Kraft Heinz before slashing costs and jacking up returns.
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The day of the rally, Sanders joked that a single tweet of his about Ariad Pharmaceuticals jacking up the price of a leukemia drug sent the company's stock into free fall.
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Police accused Hickey, 71, of leading the operation with PRO10 to funnel tickets for the Rio Games through THG Sports to raise 10 million reais ($3 million) after jacking up prices.
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It's important to do this before jacking up the car because once the tire is off the ground, the cranking motion will spin the wheel rather than loosen the lug nuts.
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Noah Vonleh Is a Human Tank Noah Vonleh is not (yet) Mark Madsen 222, but the Chicago Bulls aren't exactly preventing him from jacking up threes at an illogical rate, either.
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Generating venture-sized returns will undoubtedly involve more than jacking up ticket prices for more immersive games, though we haven't heard much of a grand vision from the young startup yet.
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Shkreli did indeed go on to start another company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, which made headlines by acquiring a lifesaving anti-infection drug and jacking up its price by 5,000 percent in 2015.
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"We usually preach getting to the rim and attacking the basket first before we just start jacking up 3s." said senior guard Dajuan Graf, who led North Carolina Central with 15 points.
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Omaha's few hotels have built their business models around this surge, jacking up prices to as much as $22024 a night and imposing three-day minimum stays around the one-day event.
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Turkey's central bank also made a rare show of independence, ignoring a fresh bashing from President Tayyip Erdogan and jacking up its interest rates by more than one-third to 24 percent.
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Specifically, the rule would prevent companies from buying a drug that has been on the market for a long time and then jacking up the price to hundreds of dollars per pill.
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But with news of more Obamacare insurers jacking up premiums or leaving ACA exchanges altogether, they're wisely focusing on McConnell's secrecy and haste as opposed to defending the existing health-care law.
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"You've kind of hit a ceiling on how far you can keep jacking up the prices on the phone," said Daniel Morgan, a portfolio manager with Synovus Trust, which owns Apple shares.
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The good news is that jacking up your metabolism, burning fat, and increasing lean muscle mass—the trifecta of a beach body, in other words—takes less time than you might think.
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But many young people see it in generational terms: a tale of rich, ageing baby-boomers who enjoyed free tuition in their youth jacking up costs just as the next generation grows up.
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Small-time landlords like the Yims will respond in one of two ways: they'll either try to filter out bad eggs by jacking up rent and toughening rental criteria, or they'll just sell.
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Indeed, Automotive News reported on Monday that while some dealers are offering a $33,000 discount on some cars, other dealers are jacking up prices by the same amount over the suggested sticker price.
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Fans say Peter Remes attracts artists by illuminating the beauty of historic buildings — but critics call him a gentrifier and accuse him of jacking up the rent in buildings already used by artists.
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The businessman became the target of online outrage in the fall of 2015 after buying the rights to a lifesaving drug with no competitors and jacking up the price by about 5,000 percent.
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In the past, this would have been a recipe for disaster — jacking up the megapixel count often made photos look worse, not better, as the smaller pixels resulted in less light-gathering ability.
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When the cost of college started rising sharply in the 1990s, the universities jacking up the prices probably didn't consider the effect their actions would have on the real estate market of today.
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It is only when an economy hits physical or natural constraints on its productivity — such as full employment — that inflation happens because that is when supply fails to meet demand, jacking up prices.
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Valeant CEO Michael Pearson was a charismatic Duke/McKinsey alum who convinced Wall Street that jacking up drug prices instead of investing in R&D was the right business model for pharmaceutical firms.
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This was because one of the buyside's chief concerns was that the coupon would be too high to guarantee it would be paid in cash, a problem that jacking up yields would exacerbate.
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The move could put the kingdom at loggerheads with President Donald Trump, who wants to drive down energy costs for Americans and frequently accuses the Saudi-led OPEC cartel of jacking up oil prices.
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Monsoon rains, however, arrived ahead of schedule this month and are forecast to be above-average, and government has avoided jacking up GST rates except for certain items it considers luxuries, including movie tickets.
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According to federal guidelines, that could mean a decade or more in prison for a man who became infamous in 2015 for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug more than 5,000 percent.
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Then, newly-elected U.S. President Ronald Reagan embarked on large-scale fiscal stimulus at the same time as then-Fed Chairman Paul Volcker was jacking up policy rates in an attempt to control inflation.
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The agreement underscores an unusual degree of harmonization between the two U.S. markets watchdogs, which in the past have been accused by the industry of jacking up their compliance bills by failing to coordinate.
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So if you have the chance to climb above the struggling minimum wage line by jacking up the price of shrimp and making bored rich people pick up the tab, why not take it?
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The drought comes with Zimbabweans enduring the worst economic crisis in a decade - prices of staples such as sugar, cooking oil and rice have more than doubled since June, jacking up inflation to 175.66%.
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Rather than jacking up the AC or sticking your head in the freezer, both of which have some seriously negative impacts on the environment, keep cool and environmentally-friendly ways to beat the heat.
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And policy changes — even drastic ones like pulling out of NAFTA and jacking up tariffs on Mexican goods — are unlikely to neutralize the powerful economic forces that have driven the flow of jobs overseas.
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This is how ineffective folk cures like the healing crystals Spencer Pratt advertised on Instagram flourish; racist conspiracy theories explode on Reddit; and price gougers can justify jacking up the cost of hand sanitizer.
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On Tuesday, Wired reported that some third-party sellers on Amazon have been attempting to price-gouge customers looking for masks, jacking up their prices to many times what they would normally retail for.
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On Tuesday, Wired reported that some third-party sellers on Amazon have been attempting to price-gouge customers looking for masks, jacking up their prices to many times what they would normally retail for.
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As a result, the FCC's apathy let ISPs engage in behavior like charging consumers rental fees for modems they already own, or jacking up subscriber bills via a bevy of bogus fees and surcharges.
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"You're both jacking up the prices and giving people less of a subsidy, which is a damaging combination," says David Certner, legislative policy director for the AARP, which lobbies on behalf of Americans over 55.
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Brand-name EpiPen barely has any share of the epinephrine injection market these days — a swift change from 2015, when EpiPens controlled 89% of the market and Mylan earned congressional scrutiny for jacking up prices.
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The Fed is on a path of jacking up interest rates about once per quarter and engaging in a massive quantitative tightening (QT) program, sucking up $50 billion per month out of the money supply.
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"You're both jacking up the prices and giving people less of a subsidy, which is a damaging combination," says David Certner, legislative policy director for the AARP, which lobbies on behalf of Americans over 22026.
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The Atlantic called him "the perfect and very hateable combination of arrogance, youth, and avarice," after he gained notoriety for acquiring the rights to generic drugs for rare diseases and then jacking up the prices.
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"Selling government-owned transmission lines to the highest bidder will just have the effect of jacking up power rates, and no one in that region is going to be in favor of this," she said.
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"I will observe, however, that pharmaceutical companies that often try to portray themselves as the inventors of life-saving medication often do real damage to their reputation by being greedy and jacking up prices," he said.
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The only way to stop drug companies — such as Mylan in the case of the EpiPen — from jacking up the costs of live-saving treatments is through price controls, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Jackie Courtney, founder of the designer wedding dress consignment platform Nearly Newlywed, echoes Ma, and adds that traditionally, companies like David's Bridal have counteracted the cost of acquiring new customers every year by jacking up prices.
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The company not only eliminated a free HBO promo for the company's wireless subscribers shortly after its merger closed, it has been slowly but surely jacking up the cost of the company's wireless unlimited data plans.
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Utility policies in the city and state of New York prevent the city from refusing to hook a business up to the grid, putting limits on overall power use, or jacking up rates for specific customers.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Battling a sharp rise in food costs, Turkish authorities opened their own markets on Monday to sell cheap vegetables directly to shoppers, cutting out retailers who the government has accused of jacking up prices.
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Along with fellow ride-hailing service Careem, it has become a popular alternative to riding in often-dusty and dilapidated Cairo taxis, whose drivers are notorious for switching off meters, jacking up fares and chain smoking.
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New York (CNN)In a case that rocked the tech world Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that iPhone owners could sue Apple for allegedly monopolizing the market for apps through the app store and jacking up prices.
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"So we have what I call a proactive agenda, too, and that is looking at the cost of pharmaceuticals ... and the way that pharmaceutical companies are jacking up the prices in a very unreasonable way," he said.
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Of course, there is one crucial difference between the management styles of Mr. Papa and J. Michael Pearson: Perrigo does not have Valeant's reputation for buying old drugs and jacking up their prices to generate plush profits.
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Shkreli, 34, dubbed the "pharma bro" for exploits that include jacking up the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent, was silent and stony-faced as U.S. marshals led him out of a Brooklyn courtroom.
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"The reality is that they've already lived under these rules under the 2015 Obama order and they did really well: they made huge profits, they weren't laying off workers, they weren't jacking up people's bills," Wiener said.
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"Jacking up rates for living on the wrong side of the street is arbitrary and unfair," Douglas Heller, an insurance consultant who conducted the analysis with a federation researcher, said in a call this week with reporters.
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Amazon has also announced it's working with state attorneys general to fight a surge in price gouging on its platform after third-party sellers started jacking up the prices of items like face masks and hand sanitizer.
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Amazon has been frantically stockpiling products made in China as concerns grow about how its supply chain could be affected and trying to prevent sellers from jacking up prices for highly sought-after supplies like face masks.
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As she interacts with clients hungry to hire new employees, Glaser said she sees a climate where companies are going to have no choice but to start jacking up compensation in order to meet a changing climate.
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The answer is to figure out how we can revitalize the market so that generic drug producers have incentives to compete with companies that are buying up drugs and jacking up prices to make quick, exorbitant profits.
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Martin Shkreli, famous for jacking up the price of a drug used to treat AIDS patients and hoarding a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, cried after receiving a seven-year sentence for fraud in March.
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Often, Uber has been accused of jacking up its rates when users needed its help the most, like during snowstorms or after hurricanes, and other times where there's high demand and not many options, like New Year's Eve.
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Beaten up emerging markets also made ground as Turkey's central bank made a rare show of independence, ignoring a fresh bashing from President Tayyip Erdogan and jacking up its interest rates by 20.8 basis points to 28 percent.
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As pricey as 12.5 percent sounds, it's the same or darn close as the current minimum payment requirements and that 15-year window sure looks like a nice incentive for colleges to keep jacking up tuition prices anyway.
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But game streaming seems inevitable, and as these cloud-based alternatives begin to emerge, they're going to highlight the arbitrary limits imposed by regional telecom monopolies with just one goal: jacking up your already expensive monthly broadband bill.
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But the first step is simply jacking up the power like crazy, and then automating the placement of the tunnel reinforcements, so that the tunnel — So you don't have to continue to be going slowly and building it?
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These tactics run the gamut — from buying old drugs and then jacking up prices, to regularly boosting prices on medicines by double-digit percentages, to setting ever-higher pricing floors for the newest medications for hard-to-treat diseases.
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Rein in inflation and cuts to utility subsidies threaten to rekindle it while also fueling public anger; get a tumbling peso in check by jacking up interest only to find industrial output has hit an almost two-decade low.
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NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - Martin Shkreli, the former drug company executive who made headlines by jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug before he was found guilty of defrauding investors, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.
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They defy a lot of the problems that we associate with monopoly, which are all about jacking up prices, or ... Media was in no position to decry them, because they'd made a devil's bargain with them many years earlier.
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Thanks to their effective "duopoloy" status, Intel and Microsoft could charge quite a bit of money for their respective technologies, jacking up PC sticker prices for consumers and leaving systems integrators to scramble for what little profit they could eke out.
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NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - Martin Shkreli, the former drug company executive who made headlines by jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug before he was accused and found guilty of defrauding investors, was sentenced to 7 years on Friday.
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The fact that the buyer turned out to be one of the most reviled men in the world (thanks to his jacking up the price of a life-saving drug and allegations of fraud, among other things) made people very upset.
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And considering the things the guy's done, like jacking up the price of a drug used by AIDS patients, and violating Twitter's harassment policy to post a creepy collage of Teen Vogue editor Lauren Duca, no one should be surprised.
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When Hillary became secretary of state in 2009, Bill Clinton cashed in by jacking up his speaking fees — earning $500,000 from a Russian investment bank and $750,000 for an address to a telecom conference in China, according to ABC News.
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"[Wells Fargo] should have smelled something was wrong there, just like EpiPen and Mylan should have smelled something wrong with what they're doing: jacking up something that kids need," said Isaacson, author of the best-selling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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That's not really how we coach people, it's much more about long-term progression and understanding the appropriate level of how to get jacked up when you should and relax when you don't need to be jacking up and that sort of stuff.
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"The company has developed fail-safe systems for smoothing earnings, beating expectations and jacking up demand for its shares with a precision that rivals any jet that rolled off the assembly line in Boeing's heyday," Maureen Tkacik wrote recently, in The New Republic .
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Unable to stem brutal losses which saw the peso hit record lows despite the central bank jacking up interest rates to 40 percent, Buenos Aires pulled the emergency stop by announcing it would seek a financing deal with the International Monetary Fund.
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Now it appears that boomers are killing off the stock market, after jacking up the national debt, entrenching the capital class, and spending our blood and treasure getting into a wars that they also now lack to finesse to get out off.
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But the jacking up of the amount of rubles seized more than compensated for the ruble's fall, reflecting Pyongyang's desperate hunt for more cash since Kim Jong-un took power in December 2011 and ramped up North Korea's missile and nuclear programs.
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That's in no small part because they know the company has developed fail-safe systems for smoothing earnings, beating expectations and jacking up demand for its shares with a precision that rivals any jet that rolled off the assembly line in Boeing's heyday.
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First it was abruptly shutting down outside seating, then smoking areas, then new caps on volume levels, closing times, jacking up the cost of renewing a liquor license upwards of ₺1 million—($350,000)—or denying them altogether, three club owners told Noisey.
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On Friday, a jury in Brooklyn federal court convicted Martin Shkreli, the notorious hedge fund bro who became famous in the past two years for jacking up the price of lifesaving drugs and hoarding a Wu-Tang album, among other outrageous behavior.
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Because jacking up the price would entail taking away something people are used to — reasonable ticket prices — it prompts a strong feeling of repulsion and injustice, which can lead to consumers turning on businesses and hurting them more than raising prices would help.
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In 2014, Uber signed an agreement with the New York attorney general's office that prohibited the company from jacking up prices during natural disasters like "civil disorder" and "convulsion of nature," but it left out New York City's hottest natural disaster: New Year's Eve.
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David Jaros, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, said there was a "significant moment" in the Nero trial when the prosecutor, Jan Bledsoe, spoke of officers' "jacking up citizens" — a provocative comment for a representative of the state's attorney's office to make.
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Since then, Mr. Pearson has been removed, the stock has lost over 90 percent of its value and the company that made its name buying drug companies and jacking up the prices of their products is under investigation by multiple arms of the law.
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They'd almost certainly only be able to agree on one very basic plan both sides have floated: Ensuring that cost-sharing subsidies for insurers on the ACA marketplaces are funded, which would likely prevent unsure providers from pulling out or jacking up their premiums.
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With cases of coronavirus spreading to at least 37 locations internationally per the CDC, it was inevitable that enterprising sellers would quickly capitalize on the growing collective anxiety by jacking up the price on N95 face masks and marketing "pandemic quick kits" of dubious necessity.
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Brock Long -- who's been heading up FEMA's disaster relief effort in P.R. and elsewhere -- went on 'Meet the Press' Sunday to defend Trump's tweet last week, in which he accused Democrats of jacking up the death count after Hurricane Maria to make him look bad.
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The former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO known for jacking up the price of AIDS medicine is currently awaiting his next court appearance on Wednesday after being arrested last month on fraud charges for allegedly running a Ponzi-like scheme during his tenure at MSMB Capital Management and Retrophin.
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Shkreli, who became known as "the Most Hated Man in America" after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, will also have to turn over a brokerage account worth about $5 million, an ultra-rare album by Lil Wayne, and a Picasso painting, MSNBC reports.
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Miller, chief investment officer at LMM, said he thinks the embattled drugmaker is "a completely different company" than the one that was under severe fire for jacking up drug prices, and could see returns of 25 percent to 30 percent per year over the next five years.
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"Martin Shkreli and Vyera not only enriched themselves by despicably jacking up the price of this life-saving medication by 4,000 percent in a single day, but held this critical drug hostage from patients and competitors as they illegally sought to maintain their monopoly," she added.
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However, health care policy experts pointed out that while the bill would forbid insurers from rejecting or jacking up prices for those with pre-existing conditions, it would allow them to exclude coverage related to those conditions -- or base prices on factors like age, gender and occupation.
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Photo: APMartin Shkreli, the convicted securities fraudster, insufferable troll, and so-called "Pharma Bro" widely loathed for jacking up the price of anti-parasitic drug Daraprim, bought the Wu-Tang clan's single-copy album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin in 2015, impressively making himself even more widely loathed.
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The time for real, private-sector based reform in drug pricing should come now so that healthcare can be a winning issue for Republicans running for re-election, and to prevent drug makers from jacking up prices as soon as they feel the President is focused on other topics.
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"I will observe, however, that pharmaceutical companies that often try to portray themselves as the inventors of life-saving medication often do real damage to their reputation by being greedy and jacking up prices in a way that victimizes," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing.
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Many colleges have also exploited loan programs by admitting unqualified students into nontechnical liberal arts curriculums that offer little future, jacking up their price tags, and spending the bonanza on light teaching loads and student unions that make college more a Club Med experience than a real education.
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For years before that, Spotify and Netflix both have come up with creative ways to push people outside the Apple and Google ecosystems on mobile to avoid having to pay the fee, occasionally capitulating to the storeowners and jacking up monthly subscription prices for mobile sign-ups as a result.
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She could have courted Sanders voters even more effectively by creating new emotionally charged anger about college costs by using the same kind of vitriol she's used to attack pharmaceutical companies and Wall Street and apply that to the universities who keep jacking up tuition way beyond the rate of inflation.
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The DoJ argues, without any plausible warrant, that if the individual mandate falls, so must the so-called "guaranteed issue" and "community rating" provisions—the bits of the ACA that prevent health-insurance companies from denying coverage or unduly jacking up rates for people with serious (and expensive) medical conditions.
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Meanwhile, one bit describing the hated man's new life post-sentencing is impossible to improve upon by paraphrasing, so here it is reprinted in full: The former hedge fund manager became famous in 2015 for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug called Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent.
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"Martin Shkreli and [Phoenixus] not only enriched themselves by despicably jacking up the price of this life-saving medication by 4,000 percent in a single day, but held this critical drug hostage from patients and competitors as they illegally sought to maintain their monopoly," said New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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But while the explosive, and unjustified, price increase of EpiPens is just another in a long line of similar stories, we barely remember last February when Congress dragged Martin Shkreli in to defend his 50-fold jacking up of the price of Daraprim, an important but rarely used drug for parasitic infections.
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Even if the welfare of the rest of the globe is excepted, such a tax on goods imported from China would "tremendously" hurt the poor by jacking up the prices on many of the products they most frequently use, said Caroline Freund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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Pai's plan to deregulate the BDS market is particularly troubling for public interest advocates because, contrary to the Trump FCC's assertions, the market for BDS services is already woefully uncompetitive, and has been for many years, hence the need for price caps to prevent monopoly broadband providers from jacking up prices to sky-high levels.
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The Chicago Cubs won the World Series; Donald Trump won the US presidency; and now, internet villain Martin Shrkeli, who's best known for jacking up the price of HIV/AIDs medication, has performed a public service: He allowed everyone to listen to the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan's single-copy album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
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Describing the $8 billion set aside to support programs for people with preexisting conditions who won't be able to access commercial insurance under the AHCA (which lets insurance companies return to the practice of jacking up prices on the sick), Lambrew explains that the money pales in comparison to the tax relief the bill is really designed to deliver.
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There are tons of people to blame for this — the drug companies who see no problem jacking up the prices of medicine; the insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers who've created perverse incentives for their businesses; and rent-seeking businesses like the dialysis company DaVita, which stands accused of being part of a good old-fashioned kickback scheme.
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Drug Company Chairman to America: Go Fuck YourselfBack in August of 2016, the pharmaceutical company Mylan came under fire for jacking up prices of…Read more Read"One needs to keep in mind that an anaphylaxis event can be deadly and, sadly, even an appropriately administered dose of epinephrine from a fully functional device may not prevent a patient from dying," Mylan told Bloomberg News in a statement.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE argued that the government needed to artificially boost pay through jacking up the federal minimum wage.
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Harris responded by arguing she has come to her current stance by taking into account the ideas of voters and experts; she used variants of "listen" a half-dozen times in half a minute: The reality is that I have been spending time in this campaign listening to American families, listening to experts, listening to health care providers, and what I came away with is a very clear understanding that I needed to create a plan that was responsive to the needs of the American people, responsive to their needs understanding that insurance companies have been jacking up the prices for far too long, that American families have to be held down by deductibles and co-pays and premiums that can cause them bankruptcy.
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Read more about the airline industry: Cathay Pacific revealed a major data breach affecting 9.4 million passengers that leaked passport numbers, credit card numbers, and email addresses An agitated Frontier Airlines passenger opened the cabin door before the plane was about to take off, triggering the emergency slide to deploy Boeing beats and raises its full-year profit forecast JetBlue is jacking up its ticket prices as fuel costs soar Singapore Airlines executive reveals why its new Airbus jet is such a game-changing advantage for the airline over its rivals People are threatening to boycott Ryanair after the airline failed to remove a white man who shouted racist insults at an elderly black woman on one of its flights I flew on the longest flight in the world, which lasts nearly 18 hours and covers 10,000 miles.
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