Members of barter clubs receive Local Alternative Units, or TEMs for their Greek acronym, in return for some product or service rendered to another member of the closed community.
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In the chart (see above) we display the return profile for a product like the Merrill note: a three-times return in the 0%-to-6% range, a flat 18% return if the market does better than 6% and a full participation in losses if the market goes down.
Or that Herbalife allows distributors to return unsold product for up to a year, and that returns have accounted for less than 0.5% of sales in recent years.
"I had to return this product because it is only for bananas that curve to the right and I can only find bananas that curve to the left, " a one-star reviewer complained.
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They realize that in return for the privilege of selling a medical product to the public industry bears a responsibility to ensure that all data concerning the risks and benefits of that product are available.
The fragile unity achieved at last weekend's meeting was the product of an undertaking to moderates that, in return for supporting the budget, they would get a pension reform early in the new year.
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Their drive for success will produce the return on investment, the job security and the product benefits that are the shared interests of all interested parties.
Our survey revealed that product return rates over the past three to five years have increased for more than half of retailers (57 percent) and nearly half (43 percent) of manufacturers surveyed.
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Mr Schultz, who earlier this year returned to the helm of the company he built into a global giant, deserves credit for trying to return Starbucks to its old approach to innovation, which was all about incremental product variation around a central platform.
Only when demand starts to grow and some of those users start to pay for the product can the entrepreneur make a case that the start-up will earn investors an attractive return.
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