The bid-cost recovery mechanism is supposed to provide make-whole payments that cover start-up and minimum load costs for parties requesting electric energy.
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Competition will not only make it tough for Netflix to gain or retain subscribers, but it will also impact its margins as competitors bid up the cost of content.
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So Mr Kloppers eventually stopped digging and dropped the bid, at considerable cost to BHP and to his own reputation.
In a bid to offset the political cost of the wage cuts, and also to pre-empt demands from impatient EU partners, the government has announced a sweeping overhaul of the tax system, including a drive to collect more revenue from the rich.
It continues to curtail production in a bid to move lower on the cost curve, completing partial efforts in Spain and getting underway in Italy, as well as permanently closing a smelter in Tennessee and two lines in Texas.
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In a bid to acquire a foothold in low-cost generics, the Japanese firm paid 737 rupees a share last June, forking out a premium of 31% to the company's stock price at the time. (See Daiichi Sankyo Decides Generics Are Healthy Biz).
The council considered a judicial review bid but has now said it will not be cost effective.
In a bid to maintain operational efficiency, the company is undertaking several cost cutting measures including a number of lay-offs.
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The Smart Grid enables a market system that provides cost-benefit tradeoffs to consumers by creating opportunities to bid for competing services.
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Key to Qwest's takeover bid is the contention that a merger with MCI would lead to huge cost savings.
Gallagher's Senate bid left state party leaders worried that a tough primary battle with McCollum would cost them both offices.
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Highland Council will submit a bid to the Scottish government's Innovation and Investment Fund to help cover the cost of the programme.
Mahathir is deeply worried that obsessive religious practices, and adherence to rituals at any cost, will so preoccupy his fellow Malay Muslims that the nation's bid to achieve industrialized status within the next 20 years will fail.
The cost of buying a second-hand Treasury at Fidelity is half the spread between bid and ask prices.
That move would allow the smart cheater to get long the calls for a slightly lower cost and make the call trades look like sales since they got traded on the bid.
That, in turn, helped him to bid for fixed-price government contracts, which most defense contractors are loath to do, fearing that cost overruns will eat up their profits.
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