For decades they used their bargaining power to force down the fees they paid to conventional, active fund managers.
The notion is that, if any wicked oil companies try to gouge consumers, the DOE can unleash its reserve and force down prices.
Mr Rutte's policy echoes German Chancellor Angel Merkel's plans of strictly adhering to austerity measures that are designed to force down the country's deficit.
And, as they phone home, holiday-makers might even mutter a word of thanks for the European Commission's work to force down outrageous mobile-roaming fees.
"The water was up over the top of car wheels, and it comes at such a force down the road, it's dangerous, " she added.
As more money piles into the business, groups could lose their focus, and competition could push up the prices for deals and force down future returns.
Then, with both hands, he broke the hot-dog in half and, with one section in each hand, used the sausage as a plunger to force down the bun as he chewed.
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At the same time, other Chinese have self-organized online to form purchasing groups with enough leverage to force down the price of, say, the new Toyota Yaris they each want to buy.
At today's levels of world demand, an influx of Iraqi crude could force down prices and make other OPEC members cut production even more than they already have over the past year.
"We've had discussions about what we could do to deal with that, to ensure that no foreign worker should take a job at less than minimum wage and be exploited and force down people's wages".
Ford's other main rival, DaimlerChrysler, may be taking a risk buying 34% of Mitsubishi Motors, just as the Japanese firm has revealed that it has covered up product defects for 20 years, but at least it has used Mitsubishi's problems to force down the asking price and to install its own man as chief operating officer.
The ship would also harness wave energy, which is normally the force slowing down ships.
The cost advantages of the Internet could force margins down across all brokerage businesses.
In the same month, Japan's unemployment rate fell to 4.6% of the labour force, down from 5.1% a year earlier.
But there are certainly going to be more products like this in the next few years, and that will force prices down.
We did the top kill -- we were able to force mud down the wellbore to the point where we actually suppressed all the oil.
In Peru, the air force shot down airplanes suspected of carrying coca paste to Colombia in a controversial venture with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
The inquiry into Ms Lawrence's disappearance was the largest in the recent history of North Yorkshire Police, but the force scaled down the investigation after 16 months in July 2010.
This is simply due to the fact that regardless of all the new pricing weapons retailers can deploy, and more potentially looming, weak consumer demand will continue to force prices down.
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He is the only president for whom real disposable income grew at less than 1% (0.7%) and the only one who suffered a decline in the civilian work force, down an average of 690, 000 a year.
For what this really does is removes much of the pressure that the Troika (ECB, EU Commission and IMF) can bring to bear on the Greek Government to just shut up and force austerity down the throats of the citizenry.
And it also leaves out the fact that you could certainly use other methods, as other cities do, to force crime down that don't rely on this kind of very aggressive stop-and-frisk activity that embarrasses and humiliates, and most importantly, drives people away from police.
Portes argues that it would be good news for most of us if the interest rate paid by the government were to rise, because that would show economic growth is reviving - and the need for the Bank of England to force rates down by creating tens of billions of pounds of new money, via quantitative easing, would be over.
This was intended to force it back down on to the sea floor.
James Toseland also felt the force of gravity down under, ditching his own YZR-M1 halfway through an otherwise positive opening session.
In 1998, Brazil's Congress approved a law allowing the air force to shoot down planes that enter Brazilian air space illegally.
Northern Constabulary has one of the highest crime detection rates in the UK and the force puts this down to its community-style policing.
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Wolves did crack under the City pressure midway through the half when Stearman conceded a penalty after coming in with unnecessary force to bring down Silva.
They argue that Washington bureaucrats could force drug prices down even further, as occurs in the drug benefit for military veterans run by the federal Veterans Administration (VA).
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And there is growing concern that the move could reflect political pressure as well as the urge to use the global crisis as an excuse to force real rates down.
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