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"It's important for people to have insurance, but like most Texans, the governor does not believe they should be forced to purchase it, " said Josh Havens, a spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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Today tech companies like Sirius, TIVO and HP sell their products on the cheap so that consumers can subscribe to their satellite radio and TV services or be forced to purchase an endless supply of replacement ink jet printer cartridges.
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Selling a covered put is more of an abstraction, but you could argue you are doing that if you have cash lying around equal to the value of the underlying securities and wouldn't mind being forced to purchase the securities at the put price.
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Refiners are now crashing into what is called a "blend wall, " meaning the feds have forced them to purchase more ethanol than they can safely put in their gasoline.
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When its profitability dipped last summer, according to its SEC filings, Inktomi was forced to exercise a purchase option--in essence to repay Deutsche Bank for the loan on the building.
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There is absolutely nothing concerning this act that forced any individual citizen to purchase health-care, and in no way required that such monies must be deducted for payment to a private institution.
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The cash crisis forced Gall and Cooke to rely on purchase-order financing--in essence, factoring receivables before they are even receivable.
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Under Gates, Pentagon constraints on Israeli technology additions to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters nearly forced Israel to cancel its plans to purchase the aircraft.
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And whereas the Post will sell subscriptions directly to readers as an in-app purchase, the News, having no preexisting digital sales apparatus, is forced to let Apple handle the transaction, and take its usual 30 percent cut.
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Many mutual funds and sovereign wealth funds (SWF) would instantly be forced to either change their investing covenants from AAA-only, to allow for the purchase of AA bonds.
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