Sometimes this leads to counter-intuitive behaviour, such as consumers preferring a flat all-you-can-eat fee when pay-as-you-go would be cheaper.
Over-the-counter derivatives - unregulated because they are privately negotiated between two parties - were blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis.
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Tax breaks for over-the-counter drugs date to 2003, as popular drugs like the allergy medicine Claritin began switching to over-the-counter status.
Blackburn threatened sporadically on the counter-attack - Benni McCarthy and Vince Grella drilled wide before Kalinic tentatively prodded wide when one-on-one with Reina.
So designers are seeing under-the-counter microwaves, dishwashers set into drawers that match existing cabinetry, and in-cabinet coffee makers with their own water lines installed.
At a moment when nationalistic claims and counter-claims are resounding over the ice-floes, the region's intractability still forces its would-be conquerors to rub along.
Examples include health insurance premiums (Medicare, Medigap, and private), over-the-counter medications, and fees from services such as assisted living facilities, nursing homes and in-home care.
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Saints hit back immediately, Shane Geraghty, playing at full-back, counter-attacking from deep and initiating a sweeping move which ended with loose-head prop Tonga'uiha burrowing over.
He has also said that Britain cannot specialise in counter-insurgency warfare alone, but must be ready to fight state-on-state wars that necessarily require high-end equipment.
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It says that since 1990 it has filed 93 cases challenging false and misleading weight-loss claims involving over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, commercial weight-loss centers, weight-loss devices and exercise equipment.
These include closer co-operation between national intelligence agencies, the creation of an EU counter-terrorism chief, and measures that make it easier to trace terrorists who use mobile phones and e-mail.
Counter-terrorism experts differ as to how the attackers - in several pickup trucks - may have reached In Amenas, but there are several roads and tracks across uninhabited desert from Libya.
The advisory panel could have voted to recommend pulling over-the-counter drugs that use acetaminophen in combination with other ingredients -- such as NyQuil, Pamprin and Allerest -- but it chose not to.
Sexier, but in no less a commodity category, Sephora took on both the over-the-counter department store cosmetic brands and the under-wraps drug store brands and created an open-sell environment as its distinguishing brand factor.
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West Brom were camped in the Bluebirds half as Chris Brunt and Bednar again went close before counter-attacking Cardiff - the Championship's second highest-scorers - completed a battling smash-and-grab win amid the late drama.
Self-treating with over-the-counter (OTC) meds like Excedrin Migraine or Advil may do the trick for infrequent or not-too-severe pain but for others, it can actually make it worse, says Dr. Emily Rubenstein Engel, MD.
The studio knew that it was pointless and counter-productive to throw tens-of-millions of dollars in order to slightly improve what was always going to be a B-movie action picture based on a line of toys.
Wyeth is trying to counter the lawyers by settling the most damaging cases--the ones with sympathetic, high-earning plaintiffs or strong evidence of heart damage on an echocardiogram--and pushing the weak ones in front of juries.
The author Louise Story argues that nine dealers dominate the clearinghouses that manage risk in the over-the-counter derivatives world and that this allows them to keep a grip on the ultra-lucrative derivatives trade, despite attempts at reform.
We have 1, 000 members of the NYPD assigned to counter-terrorism duties, and they -- along with the entire NYPD and the investments we have made in counter-terrorism infrastructure -- are being fully mobilized to protect our city.
Here's an idea: Instead of merely attacking and counter-attacking a merger, companies would do well to explain their proposals -- their costs, benefits, valuations and long term implications -- to the people who really matter, the shareholders.
Such adventure, combined with West Brom's pace on the counter-attack, ensured a lively afternoon for Everton keeper Tim Howard, who acrobatically palmed over a Brunt free-kick and somehow managed to get a hand to a close-range header from Odemwingie.
At the heart of the debate to date about the FS-X agreement have been various claims and counter-claims concerning the effect of the F-16 technology and manufacturing know-how the United States will supply Japan on the latter's competitive industrial position.
We believe that our ongoing partnership holds much promise to further enhance collaboration between CSTO and the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, as well as the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy on counter-terrorism issues and implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
Hitting the ageing Finns on the counter-attack is what is what Wales had to do and nine minutes before the break, Tottenham left-back Bale did just that crossing from the by-line for Simon Church, but the Reading striker could not direct his glancing header goal-bound.
Critics counter that the problem is not just achievements but missed opportunities - like the 4%-to-5% economic growth rates being reported by other Southeast Asian economies - as well as the sense that Estrada does not have a handle on either his administration or his country's problems.
Last year, as the subprime market began its collapse, the President's Working Group, which includes the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the SEC and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, recommended against tighter oversight of the over-the-counter market, in the context of vetoing tighter regulation of hedge funds, saying the industry can self-police.
That's the quick and not entirely complete explanation for why Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) moved last Sunday to counter Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) foray into processors for mobile devices with an expanded low-power processor line of its own, dubbed Tegra.
As a result, however, it is now possible to point to a bipartisan American approach to counter-terrorism. (In a backhanded way, the current administration has in this respect - albeit perhaps in this one only - lived up to its self-congratulatory hype as a purveyor of "post-partisan" policy.) We conservatives should not demean this, for it is significant.
These love to pretend that they live in one of the world's toughest urban jungles, beset by warring gangs and malevolent Nature, when, in reality, the biggest danger they face is that the person behind the counter at Starbucks might mis-hear their order for a double tall, decaf, non-fat latte with a vanilla shot and make their coffee with full-fat milk by mistake.
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