While competitors' pods are available on grocery-store shelves, the company says it won't budge from its direct-to-consumer model, selling coffee capsules online, in its boutiques and over the phone.
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The opprobrium heaped upon a mediator can be a good barometer of the pressure he is applying to one or both sides in a conflict, or of the parties' readiness to budge from long-entrenched positions.
While the Fed keeps the yield on overnight loans at 0% and investors price ten-year Treasury bonds as if prices will barely budge over the coming decade, inflation is lurking in many corners of the economy--like shipping, which accounts for 7% of gross domestic product.
The kids rolled their eyes, but they didn't budge from their primo trap-watching spot.
On the bits that were always going to cause him trouble - Iraq and public services - the needle did not budge.
Mr Nasser points out that marketing tricks are often necessary in a market where the other main factors--demand and capacity--are very difficult to budge.
However, India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and left-wing parties refused to budge from their demand that a debate on economic reforms must be held under Rule 184.
"There are a lot of people over the last few years that decided to put their life on hold, " says Budge Huskey, president of real-estate brokerage Coldwell Banker.
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Many would-be sellers wouldn't budge on stratospheric asking prices.
The coalition in Tirana is still very frail--especially with Mr Berisha refusing to budge.
Despite teary-eyed pleadings, Niphon would not budge, but he is fully aware that his standing in the party is secure.
The newly chipper Russian President arrived at last week's Helsinki summit trailing a string of sound-bite warnings that he would not budge.
Budge Wells, deputy chairman of Mid-Bedfordshire Conservative Association, which has the power to de-select her as a candidate in the next general election, said her participation in the programme was "not helpful" but said officials would be "cautious" in their response.
If the child refuses to budge, he invites his fuchsia friend Telly on-screen to do the jumping instead.
"I played with Budge Pountney at Northampton, who is a world-class seven, and I'd put Hendre up there too, " Thompson told BBC Radio Leeds.
He won't likely budge on issues that he has used to build a career -- say, controlling spending and earmarks.
Meanwhile, parents are "just crossing their fingers and hoping somebody will budge, " said Evie Gurney, the director of high-school placement at Bank Street School for Children.
The quality was Isuzu-like, but Honda's overall reputation didn't budge.
According to Belinda Budge, publishing director of Thorsons, Britain's biggest self-help publisher and part of Harper Collins, sales of books about yoga and reiki, an Oriental healing system, have exploded in the past 18 months.
Oh and by the way, the United States will not budge on its protection for textiles and on its use of anti-dumping laws, and the European Union wants to carry on keeping out foreign farm products.
And in exchange for a temporary extension of the high-income tax breaks -- not a permanent but a temporary extension -- a policy that I opposed but that Republicans are unwilling to budge on, this agreement preserves additional tax cuts for the middle class that I fought for and that Republicans opposed two years ago.
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In refusing to agree to Shas's demand, Livni made clear that partitioning the city - that is, giving the Palestinians sovereignty over the Temple Mount and the Arab neighborhoods - is so central to her preferred foreign policy that she could not budge on the issue despite her obvious desire to take up residence in the Prime Minister's Office.
They are saying - in effect - this is the best we can do with ministers who won't budge any further.
We don't expect the status quo to budge much in the near future, whether it's on mobile or a fixed-line.
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He did not budge or fudge, but Nato's leaders rather ignored him and just hoped no-one else would follow his lead and start elbowing others out of the way in their desire to get home.
"No intimidation will budge us from our willingness to help that country rise up again and rebuild itself with self-government, security and freedom, " Berlusconi said in a statement.
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