While the mega-players continue to spend heavily on research, however, their new size gives them more purchasing muscle when buying lab equipment: Thermo may face more price resistance.
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The war for each vertical has often become a test of who can outlast the siege of their competitors, who can survive the longest in the face of price wars.
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Of course, this benefits generic drugmakers, such as Teva Pharmaceuticals and Watson Pharmaceuticals, but they also face ongoing price erosion, Levesque notes, and tougher manufacturing compliance that will cut into profits.
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With food and oil prices surging to multi-year highs, consumers have seen their finances stretched even farther as they face commodity price inflation at the pump and in the supermarket.
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Magazine publishers face two paper price increases this summer and are still trying to figure out how to make nickels from the Web, mobile and tablet platforms.
The Fed then launders the loans by reselling them back to the same group of banks at a fraction (10 percent or less) of the face-value price it paid the banks for them.
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Chronic disease management, acute care services and preventative care are all available at a face value, affordable price.
If tried and convicted, Price could face up to 30 years in prison.
Coca-Cola (KO) is one bellwether name that continues to impress with earnings and climb higher, even in the face of high commodity price headwinds.
Buyers typically question the wisdom of the already agreed upon contract purchase price in the face of subjectively objective factual evidence to the contrary.
In America, says Chris Bright of Clifford Chance, a law firm based in London, price-fixers face two other worries that their British counterparts have so far been spared.
Lower-priced salmon would be a boon for consumers seeking low-fat and affordable options for protein sources, especially in the face of years of food price inflation and a growing obesity epidemic.
The fundamental point is that, in the presence of inelastic supply curves, demand-side subsidies face a headwind of adverse price effects, while direct public provision gets a tail wind of favorable price effects.
Cleveland Police Authority decided that 11 matters should be referred to a misconduct hearing, but it said Mr Price would not face a hearing as he is no longer a serving police officer.
On its face, added liquidity should be price supportive for the metal.
Since the face value of both certificates were the same for the same denomination, as the price gold rose, the ratio of the face value of the Silver Certificate to the market value of silver dropped.
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In an era of rising seas and extreme weather events, we are only going to face more giant post-disaster price tags, which will increasingly compete with rising entitlement costs and other runaway expenses for political attention.
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So if history shows that proposed anti-price-gouging legislation has fallen flat on its face, and if two federal agencies have said they haven't found any evidence of price gouging by oil and natural gas companies, and no one has been prosecuted under existing laws for price fixing, then why the new legislation?
Meanwhile, in the face of a big down move in price, as what usually happens, many short-term greedy types got scared and sold.
And that portfolio, inherited from Countrywide Credit, may still face further loss of value should the price of residential homes continue to soften another 5% to 10%, as many experts feel could happen.
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The individuals responsible for regrettable decisions may save face but the participants or taxpayers will pay the price.
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Many of these investors are able to pay a price closer to the loan's face value than bigger private-equity firms are willing to do.
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Problems included a penchant for picking up dirt and fingerprints (the price you pay for a beautiful glossy face, we suppose), a cramped nav key layout with the tricky touch-sensitive Navi Wheel front and center, audio performance that wasn't bad but was expected to be far better in light of the dedicated DSP, and a "shovel"-like feel in the hand, a symptom of the phone's generous dimensions.
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Even a remote chance that Microsoft could face structural penalties might become a drag on its share price.
And given the high price that the network and its customers will face, will the iPhone prove such a great deal?
Over coming the price objection in a brief phone conversation or face to face meeting is regarded as a highly sought skill set in my industry.
This would be bad for shareholders, who would not get a good price, and bad for employees who would face a higher risk of being laid off.
Even with the technical leap, TV makers face another challenge: getting OLED-TVs to a price level that will be competitive with LCD and plasma TVs that are now priced like commodities.
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