As prices fell, the government bought grain or paid farmers to store it, creating a price floor.
Green investors such as Silicon Valley's Vinod Khosla regularly call for a price floor on gas to support the industry.
In November of that year the Mexicans agreed to a price floor of 46 cents a kilo for their exports.
"The bidding on DoubleClick just represents a price floor, " he says.
It would prohibit the sale of discounted tobacco products, impose packaging requirements on cheap cigars and create a price floor for cigarette packs and small cigars.
People in the industry are arguing for a price floor.
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Second, governments should not pick winners or give out extensive subsidies. (Translation: Ethanol is a bad idea, and other existing "renewables, " such as wind power, are unlikely to ever be more than a niche source.) Better to have a small carbon tax to place a price floor for competing technologies, and offer large cash prizes, similar to the X-Prize for private space flight, for specified energy breakthroughs.
Ailouros was granted a three-month window in which to buy the shares at an 8% discount to the seven-day-average trading price, or a floor price set by Research Frontiers.
On the portfolio side, establish a price, or at least a floor on the price, of the troubled assets.
The government will then set a floor price and an upper limit for at least the first three years to avoid excessive price fluctuations.
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The directive limits the number of hours they can operate before shutting down, and many coal plants are choosing to burn through their remaining permitted hours by April when the UK government introduces a carbon floor price.
It could have signed up to Fairtrade, an international social movement that promotes the payment of above-market prices to producers of agricultural commodities in developing countries by setting a floor price, with an additional premium that goes to farmers for reinvestment and social projects.
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Various ways have been suggested, from setting a carbon floor-price to tightening the cap.
But it will get more expensive to produce, putting a floor on the price that is way above today's.
He welcomed the decision to exempt NI from the carbon price floor - a tax measure that would have undermined the competitiveness of energy generators within the all-island market, he said.
In this case, the ECB might put a floor under the price of borrowing for the Italian, and maybe even the French, governments, by saying it would stand behind them no matter what.
The increased demand for housing arising from lower mortgage rates would provide a floor on further house price declines.
And since it is hard to cut nominal wage rates, price stability could put a floor beneath real wages.
If passed into law, it would amount to a de facto floor on the price of gas relative to ethanol.
Plus, the stock may have a floor the price a big tech firm might be willing to pay to acquire Netflix.
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That could cost 600 jobs, and the company says the new carbon floor price is a factor as it uses large amounts of energy to produce the metal.
But even while Mr Purcell remains, a floor under the share price is being provided by speculation that he will arrange a face-saving exit for himself by selling the bank.
Excuse the physics, but everything about uranium derives from this, including guessing whether the current hot commodity price is a bubble or a new floor.
Many economists oppose minimum wage altogether, arguing that the created price floor would pose as a barrier for those deemed underqualified to warrant earning a minimum wage.
Not only will consumers pay more for foreign and domestically grown tomatoes at the grocery store and for salads and hamburgers at restaurants, but the new price-floor terms provide a strong indication that the specter of uncertainty associated with antidumping administration provides the necessary leverage to induce foreign producers into pricing schemes indistinguishable from collusion and price-fixing.
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The ground level offers the most casual fare, while the middle floor extends the price and menu into a more expensive, contemporary realm.
Gibraltar, jokes John Lothian, head of electronic trading at the Price Group, a brokerage that operates on an upper floor of the CBOT building.
But the committee chairman, Frank Lucas, a farmer from Oklahoma, has criticised the Senate bill for failing to provide a safety net for producers and locking in profits for a few commodities and sceptics such as Mr Smith worry that any new price-support programme from the House will set too high a floor for payments.
Since your investment can't fall further than the "strike price" you've selected, you're effectively setting a floor on your losses.
Moreover, the computer systems are often a milisecond ahead of the trading floor and able to profit on half cent price differences.
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