On Oct. 30, the company announced that is was jacking up prices on its bromine-based chemicals.
To pay for all this, universities have been enrolling more students and jacking up their fees.
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Auctions for some bonds are failing, jacking up the prices for many issuers.
Oil firms, carmakers, power generators, nervous of being outmanoeuvred, are jacking up their investments in renewables and biofuels.
Many schools have responded by jacking up tuition, which is fueling public anger and inflating student debt levels.
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And so they're jacking up their prices 'cause they know people are going to need places to live.
That's because card companies, in an effort to boost revenues, are jacking up interest rates on balances not paid off.
On top of that, Netflix was in the process of jacking up their prices, so I wanted to check out the alternatives.
He says that it was achieved by jacking up output at existing wells, rather than by investing in the exploitation of new fields.
And even though she had been cancer-free for more than a decade, the insurance companies kept on jacking up her rates, year after year.
Most retailers are in a position to boost their profits, at least in the short term, by widening the gross margin--jacking up prices, that is.
Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had signaled, by jacking up interest rates so high, that he would stop at nothing to break the back of inflation.
Under health insurance reform, we put an end to the days when an insurance company could use one worker's illness to justify jacking up premiums for everybody.
The dip in price of Avon shares mean its dividend not yields more than 3.3%, and the company has history of jacking up the dividend every year.
In both cases the Federal Reserve made the mistake of withdrawing liquidity and jacking up interest rates when it should have eased them or left things alone.
The governor surely knows that litigating the dispute in court could entail years of delay, jacking up construction costs in excess of the amount that the agency is demanding.
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Reports this week have said there are shortages of gold bars and coins in some countries, with gold retailers jacking up their charged premiums over the spot price of gold.
"Part-time student numbers have been falling since the economic crisis began but the government have created an unsustainable situation by jacking up fees placing a huge burden on potential students, " she said.
But some people in the industry say the association's figures are underestimates, aimed at reassuring overseas buyers that supplies will not be interrupted and deterring grape growers from jacking up their prices.
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And even when governments raise the money, they should first get rid of deductions and reverse unmeritocratic measures (such as George Bush's repeal of America's death tax) rather than jacking up income-tax rates to punitive levels.
The new player's video quality looks great, especially coming off a high def source, but the audio to the set was cut by between 25-35% on the passthrough, requiring jacking up the volume while watching television.
Schneiderman told The Associated Press that the action is part of his continuing investigation into claims of jacking up gas prices in New York City, its suburbs and on Long Island immediately after Sandy slammed the region last fall.
Nor his circular reasoning that jacking up corporate taxes will magically create jobs after that money is redistributed to the unemployed, who will rush out to spend it thereby encouraging companies to hire them to accommodate the increased demand.
And RMT general secretary Bob Crow said train companies "with the collusion of the government, will be jacking up fares by up to 6% in the new year as they launch a full-frontal assault on passengers in the name of profit".
Add to this that it is the time of year when rational people tend to go into buying convulsions along with having one of the most recognized stars in the world with an immense and intense loyal following and it means jacking up the price even more.
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And if you -- as a small business or a large business -- are seeing premiums for your employees going up 15, 20 percent a year -- I've had letters from small businesses who said that their policy was jacking up their costs by as much as 48 percent.
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