This could lead to more business for the company by allaying concerns of those who may have been hesitant to switch to Linux (which is based on Unix) out of fear of having to pay potential royalties to the plaintiff.
Some of these work for bigger firms that sell a variety of services, which may make them reluctant to attack a boss's proposed pay package for fear of jeopardising other business.
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Borrowers find themselves chained to low-paying jobs that offer little in the way of advancement, because they cannot afford to wait till the right job comes along for fear of running of usurious penalty charges if they cannot afford to pay their bills for several months.
It relented eventually and announced some pay increases over fear of losing key staff to rival Wipro ( WIT).
Previous governments have tip-toed close to the nuclear threshold, but pulled back for fear of the high price India would pay for breaking the nuclear taboo.
In the past, news of this kind has tended to be kept secret for fear of scaring away the tourists who pay to dive, swim and snorkel among the corals.
Without the fear of God, they are unlikely to pay for a new Renaissance.
That said, there may be a limit to how fast big companies will pay their suppliers, for fear of eating into their own profit margins.
Might have something to do with the fact that 39% of those surveyed last year pointed to fear of an audit as the key reason they pay taxes, second only to personal integrity.
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In college, she made friends with many undocumented immigrants who struggled to pay for their education with the fear of deportation looming.
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There have been cases in which kidnappers have instilled such fear of reprisal in their victims -- by making all pay painfully for the transgressions of one -- that the hostages wind up essentially forced to control each other.
To reassure oilmen, Mr Putin told a group of businessmen that they should have nothing to fear if they pay their dues and shell out for much-needed new infrastructure.
Supporters of the U.S. private-pay system fear a shift in power to Washington will cut down on the innovation and choice that comes with the free market.
In an increasingly fearful world, we have to become ever more discerning about what fears we pay heed to, and vigilant of where our fear of the wrong things is harming us, rather than protecting us from harm.
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The worst fear of companies benefiting from this new trend is that they'll have to pay the patients back somewhere down the line.
With good reason, of course: The more Americans fear poverty and sock away wealth, the more money they pay to Wall Street.
One source of that fear is that companies and salespeople who cross certain lines are far more likely to pay fines or face criminal charges.
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The fear is that, even though job losses have been contained through such pay curbs, the resilience of late 2009 may turn out to be short-lived.
After Pennsylvania passed a pilot program in 1994 to pay burial expenses for organ donors, state employees refused to implement the law for fear of federal prosecution.
The end of a system which had allowed the big film companies to effectively control stars' pay and publicity, meant the studios could no longer hush up personal scandals for fear of damaging a star's reputation, says Mann.
Kirch's creditors are growing very impatient, but his rivals fear that if Kirch is forced to sell assets to pay down his debt, that would allow the likes of Murdoch and Malone to crash into their market.
The banks fear that stand-alone structured-product insurers, cut off from the municipal bit, could not pay all of their claims.
The other two deals, while understood to be prepared to pay off some of the money owed to the bank, are more complicated, and the club fear time may run out before a deal is completed.
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