Another approach to cost reduction can be commission recapture, or entering into rebate agreements with brokers.
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She may well be the commission's most naturally gifted politician, grasping instinctively where territorial gains can be made.
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It would be far better if this commission could be genuinely independent, perhaps even with commissioners elected in some way, or if it were a commission of the House of Lords itself.
"There should be a commission debate, and we picked Missouri rather than either of the other two locations, " said Bush communications director Karen Hughes.
"I recall when the Knapp Commissioner report came out in 1972, they said ...they hoped there would not be another commission necessary in 20 years, " Mollen said.
"There may be a commission that a school is requiring or sometimes a school calls it a fundraiser, " says Kelvin Miller, corporate vice president of Lifetouch Inc.
Yes, in theory, the commission could then re-submit the original proposals unamended, but in practice they would be unlikely to do so, not least because, if a third of national parliaments are against a proposal, so will be their governments, and the commission would be close to losing the qualified majority needed to pass laws.
And there are going to be sometimes where a military commission may be appropriate.
Bank analyst Dick Bove speculates that it could be receiving a commission from American Express every time cash is loaded on to the card or that it might be sharing in the return on the float.
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Perhaps the toughest public-relations exercise for Mr Prodi will be to persuade jaded Europeans that this new commission will be less feather-bedded than the last.
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"Our budget doesn't need to be as big as the Commission wants it to be, " he told MEPs.
More stringent vessel-inspection policies should also be enacted, the commission said, and watertight doors should be outfitted with alarms to indicate whether they are open or closed.
Are you getting any Republican cooperation on that, and when will that commission be named?
Of course, stylists should be paid a commission for any sales and repeat business they generate.
Wharton's Erwann Michel-Kerjan says there should be a national commission to assess long-term solutions for terrorism insurance.
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In particular, we should drop the requirement that the commission be reimbursed for reconsidering new fission reactor designs.
In addition, lies may be lies of commission or crucial lies of omission.
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Worried vote-riggers may be driven to commission a countermeasure from a friendly mathematician.
So I'm going to be creating this commission by executive order.
"There needs to be a government commission and inquiry, " he said.
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"Competition" seems to be the European Commission's buzzword of the moment.
Longer term, the more important question may be whether the commission has the expertise to handle the complex and politically sensitive issues that have been pushed into its lap.
They said the time was right for a "fundamental review of all UK drugs policy in the international context" and recommended a royal commission be set up with an end-date of 2015.
It also says there should be a Fiscal Commission to advise future Holyrood governments on the public finances - a role now carried out for the UK by the Office of Budget Responsibility.
Will the commission be effective?
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The Robin Hood Tax campaign just wants the banks to pay lots and the European Commission thinks the cash should really be sent to the EU Commission.
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And if the commission is itself to be squeezed, it would have to happen quite soon: next June, a new commission, to serve until 2004, has to be appointed.
That may be what some members of the old school of Thai politics want, hoping that the election commission will be discredited.
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