So, too, would a cut in the retail mark-up charged by the state-owned dollar stores.
Contrast that 215% mark-up on the ready-to-wear suit to the mark-ups on men's accessories--neckties, belts, braces and the like.
Mark-up to mark-down is a pricing strategy whereby retailers set regular merchandise prices high and then turn around to offer customers discounts.
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Visa, MasterCard, or American Express charges your bank a 1% fee for the service of converting the foreign currency, and then your bank will likely add on a mark-up of another 1-2% for facilitating this transaction.
Google Docs has really stepped it up of late transitioning to a format reminiscent of Microsoft Word, and adding features like completely redesigned spreadsheet, document and drawing editors, group chat functionality and the ability to collaborate with real-time character-by-character mark-up.
He secured a 42% premium to FleetBoston's current share price (the mark-up is usually 20-30%), and this for a bank that has had to recover from a string of strategic mistakes: FleetBoston is now focusing on consumer finance after losing a packet in more exotic businesses, such as Latin American debt and dotcom venture capital.
Car rental agencies report that a secondary market has developed, with American officers subletting four-wheel-drive vehicles at a 50% mark-up.
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In the pre-match build-up, Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee had urged his players to prove that they are worthy of a top-six finish.
During the OFT inquiry, the group commissioned its own survey which found a multi-million pound mark-up on prices north of the Highlands line.
Fulham went into the game with only first-choice Mark Schwarzer available after back-up David Stockdale and the club's young keepers were ruled out.
Design teams work directly with clothing manufacturers to create private-label lines, avoiding the mark-up applied by apparel companies which normally serve as middlemen between retailers and manufacturers.
Two Senate Democrats from pro-gun states up for re-election next year -- Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas -- voted with 29 Republicans attempting to filibuster the legislation.
While the Costa Smeralda in the northeast gets the celebrity attention, the mile-long stretch of sand at Chia at the opposite end of Sardinia is a jaw-dropper of a beach without the mark-up.
While working the front desk at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto in 1994, she met Mark Gordon, an up-and-coming Hollywood producer.
With that promise in hand, the bank would make the purchase and immediately sell it onto the buyer at a mark-up, agreeing the buyer could pay, say, three months after goods are delivered--in effect, trade finance at a fixed rate with legal protection against default on the one side and loan sharking on the other.
When a product is manufactured in a high-cost country, shipped to China and subjected to a distributor mark-up, the end result is a very high landed price.
If the stock market goes down--thus expanding the spread-- the private equity firm can mark up its companies and sell them to other companies.
But a 77th-minute Jonathan Walters goal earned Stoke a 2-2 draw to relegate Bolton to the Championship and allow QPR -- managed by former Manchester City manager Mark Hughes -- to stay up in the Premier League.
The current mess has its origins in the late 1990s, when then chairman Mark Moody-Stuart, instead of beefing up exploration and production, cut cap-ex and dismissed thousands of seasoned managers and engineers.
In the third round Painter will face last year's runner-up Mark Dudbridge, who looked back to his best with a 4-0 trouncing of qualifier Alan Tabern for the loss of only two legs.
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Some children (born around the 24-week mark) can develop extraordinarily well, but up to 50% will have long-term behavioural, psychological and educational problems.
No word on co-op play, but that set-up makes it a big question mark.
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Legg got off to a memorable start in charge of the Wales Premier League runners-up thanks to Stuart Jones' headed goal before the half-hour mark.
Leeds' Mark Viduka - one of eight British-based players in Frank Farina's starting line-up - held the ball up brilliantly before delivering an overhead pass into the path of the breaking Bresciano who volleyed home.
Goalkeeper Jakub Divis made his Hibernian debut alongside David Stephens, Lewis Stevenson and Ricardo Vaz Te in a much-changed line-up, with Mark Brown, Liam Miller, Derek Riordan and David Wotherspoon all dropping to the bench.
Only with hindsight did it become clear that the years immediately after the defeat of the miners and running-up to her third election victory in 1987 represented the high-water mark of the Thatcher era.
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There are just too many practical obstacles standing in the way, including those flagged up by soon-to-be Governor Mark Carney.
That meant mark-to-market losses immediately showed up in their income statements.
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Delegates split up into separate groups to mark up the 68-page draft platform, with each of the eight subcommittees focusing on a section of the document.
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