Not only is it much more expensive than traditional plastic, suppliers demand high minimum orders.
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Other countries forbid most types of short-term contracts and set high minimum wages.
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Suppose a high minimum wage, by pressing on the structure of pay differentials, raises wage growth and hence inflation across the economy.
No longer exclusively marketed to the wealthy with high minimum investments, hedge funds can and do regularly outperform the market, we are told.
The larger plans have more leverage in negotiating with vendors and are eligible for special products with high minimum balances that are not available to smaller plans.
And however they are paid for, the knock-on effects of a high minimum wage would be hard to reconcile with Gordon Brown's call this week for pay restraint.
But MSAs have been severely hobbled by mandates such as grotesquely high minimum deductibles and arbitrary, restrictive rules that determine which companies are allowed to offer MSAs to their workers.
Faced with a high minimum wage, shop owners would be sure to look for ways of keeping costs down by firing people, or by squeezing differentials as far as they dare.
The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
Mr Oswald finds that in many countries high levels of owner-occupation (and hence a small rental sector) are partly to blame for high rates of unemployment, on top of factors such as over-generous social-security benefits and high minimum wages.
The public finances may be solid (public debt is around 40% of GDP), but the government has been slow to make reforms such as trimming a high minimum wage, reducing the size of the unregistered economy and increasing competition to reduce energy and other costs.
The high rate of unemployment in the United States is due primarily to structural problems, high marginal tax rates, minimum wage laws, the extension of unemployment benefits, the high cost of employer-provided health benefits, and uncertainty regarding future fiscal rules and regulations.
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The 75% passing score on a literacy test was too high, and "minimum qualifications" required only passing scores in the 66%-to-70% range.
But they also keep minimum wages high and, in the name of equality, narrow the variation between low-and high-wage jobs and industries.
Under new legislation, a High Court judge set a minimum term of 50 years and the Court of Appeal upheld that sentence on Tuesday.
Unemployment benefits are still too generous, minimum wages too high.
This essentially calls for a minimum tax on high-net worth individuals, similar to the one Warren Buffett proposed in his op-ed to the Times last weekend, but as Silver correctly points out, the implementation of such a minimum tax would have an unintended consequence.
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Where would the cash for maintaining differentials come from, if the minimum wage were set high?
It is high time there was a European minimum wage to stop factories moving to low-wage EU countries.
Others cannot qualify for the fixed-rate "prime" loans they need, or they are prohibited from refinancing by prepayment penalties meant to assure the lender that the borrower's high payments would continue for a minimum number of years.
The campaign said that in the same way that the Low Pay Commission was set up in 1997 to advise on the minimum wage, a High Pay Commission was needed to introduce "a wide-ranging review" of pay at the top and bring in new measures to curb excessive remuneration.
So does a minimum wage that is disproportionately high in relation to the country's income levels.
They put the price of labor-force participation so high with regulations, social charges, minimum wages and so forth that businesses are reluctant to take on young, untrained workers.
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This means the rear lens elements are as close as possible to the sensor, reducing the back focus distance of each lens to the minimum possible, thus achieving high resolution from edge to edge.
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The anti-cuts pressure group Right to Work occupied a Tesco branch in Westminster at the weekend and bombarded its HQ and that of other big high street names with demands that work be paid the minimum rate.
This includes making sure every child in America has access to high-quality pre-K, and raising the minimum wage so that no family that works hard and relies on a minimum wage is living in poverty.
And if ministers want to do what investors and creditors apparently want them to do, which is to force a serious recapitalisation of big French banks, the minimum capital threshold would have to be set high, at 8%.
Unfortunately, increased minimum wages induce some teenagers to drop out of high school and take a job.
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