They also lower costs at unsubsidized universities by forcing them to hold down tuition to compete.
That unsubsidized price is still too high to compete in most markets with retail electricity without subsidy.
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Meanwhile, unsubsidized insurance premiums for individuals and small businesses have climbed to among the highest in the nation.
So, for the most part, SBA loans help a fraction of small businesses compete with unsubsidized small firms.
But insurance costs under Cobra have gotten so expensive that many people can't afford even their unsubsidized 35% portion.
Undergraduates are eligible to receive two types of Stafford loans: subsidized and unsubsidized.
With other student loans including unsubsidized Stafford loans borrowers are responsible for all the interest.
He predicted that unsubsidized premiums would rise 20 to 50 percent, on average.
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But the unavailability of an unsubsidized iPhone on the nation?s largest wireless carrier is a serious deterrent to widespread 3G adoption.
The White House report correctly frames the overriding goal of clean energy investment around making clean energy cheap in real, unsubsidized terms.
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Only students taking out new subsidized loans after July 1 would be affected, as those getting unsubsidized loans already pay the 6.8% rate.
All renewables are cursed with fundamental problems that make their future stand-alone (i.e. unsubsidized) viability as anything but a marginal energy source highly questionable.
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But nothing is as strange as Google getting into the hardware business directly and selling devices, albeit unlocked and unsubsidized ones, directly to consumers.
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Subsidies help entice consumers to buy new phones regularly, but those higher unsubsidized prices may have the opposite effect another factor that could put downward pressure on phone prices.
But this would be a stretch for unsubsidized, non-Norwegian troupes.
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Moreover, the option of buying unsubsidized phones has been around for quite some time now, but most still prefer going the subsidized route due to the low upfront investment.
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These borrowers will be limited to other federal loans including the unsubsidized Stafford loan, which charges a 6.8% rate, and the graduate PLUS loan, which charges 7.9% or a private loan.
This experiment will be watched very closely and could have ramification for Apple and Samsung, whose unsubsidized read: full retail phone prices are among the highest in the world.
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For loans directly issued by the federal government, rates are currently fixed at 3.4% for subsidized loans, 6.8% for unsubsidized loans and 7.9% for Plus loans made to parents and graduate students.
Since 2005, even private, unsubsidized student loans -- the fastest-growing, highest-cost type of student loan, tantamount to putting college on your credit card -- have been immune to bankruptcy claims, as well.
As premiums for everyone in the exchange rose because of the influx of 65- and 66-year olds, some of the healthiest unsubsidized participants likely would drop coverage, further pushing up premiums for everyone else.
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Driving cost reductions must be the explicit purpose and primary design of deployment policies and achieving consistent reductions in the unsubsidized cost of clean energy technologies must be the metric that rationalizes deployment investments.
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