The movie and music industries obviously think so, though I wonder if the sales figures bear out their argument (Forbes contributor Paul Tassi thinks not).
Riccardo, a sell-side analyst at Bear Stearns, thinks Prempro sales have already bottomed out, and that the changes to the label won't further hurt sales.
Sweden's Sandvik (6.6, SDVKY) fell 70% in the bear market as the recession whacked sales of its metal-cutting, mining and construction tools as well as specialty alloys based on titanium and zirconium, used in thousands of applications like boiler tubes and flanges.
The two brought different skills sets to bear, one analytical and one creative and sales oriented, and things seemed to go well for the first year.
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They were even more apparent Thursday in Bear Stearns' earnings release that showed dramatically sinking sales at the company's fixed income unit.
Shimao Group is building five-star hotels that will bear the names of big chains and is boosting China sales through overseas sales partners.
On top of paying royalties (of about 11% to 12% of sales) to the franchisor, franchisees often bear the brunt of a promotion's cost.
As such, regulation tends to impose fixed costs that are far easier to bear by larger corporations that can spread the costs over more sales or more locations or more employees.
Typically, real-estate agents use comparable recent sales and appraisals to help determine what the market will bear.
Authorities in Europe late on Thursday announced a ban on naked stock short sales after the financial sector was torn to shreds in a vicious bear market brawl this week.
Firms with fewer than 500 employees would bear two-thirds of the job losses and more than half of the lost sales, it says.
Under the Affordable Care Act, beginning January 1st, sales of medical devices from implants to MRIs, research equipment and surgical instruments bear a 2.3 percent tax.
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They pay not just regressive sales taxes, payroll taxes, and others that target them directly, but they also indirectly bear the cost of those aimed at the rich.
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Massive bets against a firm with credit default swaps along with short sales, especially naked short sales, can logically become a self-fulfilling activity, which may or may not have done Bear Stearns in.
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