It added that it would not increase its offer again in the absence of any competing bids.
First of all, even if the government could not increase its indebtedness, it could still service its existing debt.
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Staff and lines of businesses will have to show they add value to a bank, not just increase its revenues.
That makes it all the more surprising that Australia's central bank opted not to increase its benchmark interest rate this month.
What the movie leaves out is that the ownership of the Athletics consistently turned a profit but did not increase its expenditure on players.
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Estech countersued, claiming it had been sued because it refused Medtronic's repeated requests to raise prices, including one in March 2003 when Medtronic's then-president of cardiac surgery allegedly threatened that "if Estech did not agree to increase its prices to match the higher prices charged by Medtronic, Medtronic would sue Estech for patent infringement"--which it did, four months later.
Estech countersued, claiming it had been sued because it refused Medtronic's repeated requests to raise prices, including one in March 2003 when Medtronic's then-president of cardiac surgery allegedly threatened that "if Estech did not agree to increase its prices to match the higher prices charged by Medtronic, Medtronic would sue Estech for patent infringement"-which it did, four months later.
Dish has decided not to increase prices for its customers for a while, and that is actually hurting the company and hitting both its revenues as well as margins.
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And with the France family controlling its stock, it can pretty much decide whether or not to take the company private, or increase its stake in the company even more.
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Proceeds from the listing will help the company to not only upgrade its machinery but also increase its annual production of rare earth compounds from 3, 550 tons to 4, 900 tons.
Not only does boosting its security technology increase its integrity among users as an e-commerce hub, e-signature technology could help Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) develop its mobile payment capabilities to compete.
This is not only a steep increase in its own right, but one that could creep into the prices of many other things that require oil and gas in their production and transportation.
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The 2010 Census is the first time since California became a state in 1850 where the number of its electoral votes did not increase, reflecting emigration out of a state with the highest combination of income and sales tax rates in the nation.
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They said its infrastructure would not be able to cope with such a large increase and it would change its character from a village to "an urban sprawl".
It says YPF did not invest enough to increase output from its oil fields, forcing Argentina to rely on imports.
Unlike some other power companies, Dominion is not relying on expanding its nuclear capacity to increase earnings in the next five years.
Certainly there is the dead weight of the prison bureaucracy, a Kafkaesque interleaving of public service boondoggling and private sector lobbying, whose raison d'etre is not the reduction of the prison population but its increase.
Although the conglomerate discount is not usually as extreme as that, its sharp increase in the past year is one of the main reasons companies are regaining their enthusiasm for spin-offs, says Carsten Stendevad of Citigroup.
Labour-run Gateshead Council says it must reduce the subsidy it pays to keep its allotments to protect other services, and so plans to increase charges - which have not gone up for three years - to help balance its books.
This has led to accusations that such an increase did not adequately take into account its impact on local communities, infrastructure capacity including the trasnsport network and the environment.
In negotiations held in March between Steven Rattner, the investment banker who leads the task-force, and Sergio Marchionne, Fiat's boss, Fiat agreed to scale back its initial stake to 20% and not to increase it beyond 49% until Chrysler had repaid American taxpayers in full.
This puts additional pressure on China to increase its exports, but that is not possible in a world of collapsing demand, both in developed and developing nations.
On the plus side, the company is continuing to increase its research and development spending, not cutting it to make its numbers, as some analysts had feared.
The suggestion is therefore that the news producing industry should increase its costs while raising revenues by not one single penny as a method of dealing with current financial woes.
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It believes reform should be "revenue neutral" and that though these changes may increase its own taxes, it would not be opposed to such a result "in the context of an overall improvement in efficiency, flexibility and competitiveness".
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Interestingly, its customers were not impacted too much by the payroll tax increase since the retailer caters to middle-upper income and upper income demographic.
The coalition government has ring-fenced the NHS from spending cuts elsewhere and criticised Labour for not being prepared to match its commitment to a real-terms increase in funding every year.
Its credit card portfolio, fortunately, did not see a sharp increase in deliquencies in December.
No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services.
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