The unions say their case is based on years of low pay increases - highlighted, they point out, by the prime minister among others, and used as a prominent argument to get through legislation on variable tuition fees.
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The chief executive of Aspect Development may have a point--his clients pay him millions for software to spot glaring problems in their purchasing habits.
In 1999 he published a paper citing a 19-point case for businesses to pay attention to emotional intelligence, using data from the research of others.
The offer of the bus fare, an amount which most of the men could have saved up to pay for themselves, led to a 22-percentage-point increase in the probability of migration.
It turns out it's not a five-point plan Governor Romney has got, it's a one-point plan: Folks at the very top get to play by their own rules -- pay lower tax rates than you do, outsource more jobs, let Wall Street run wild.
The 2 percentage point tax increase has reduced tax-home pay for nearly all Americans.
Richard Owen squandered a good chance to give the Tigers the lead and Wellens made him pay from Lomax's ball to give them an eight-point half-time advantage.
And landlords, once responsibility for the store returns to them, often prefer to fill the spaces with price-point retailers rather than leave them empty and pay the tax.
Those groups point out that one of the biggest aims of pay-as-you-drive programs is simply to capture actual miles driven.
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Also keep in mind that with charter, one must pay to return the aircraft to its point of origin, so one-way trips must be priced on a round-trip basis.
It has to pay a premium for environmentally products and solutions and still maintain a competitive price-point with other five-star luxury resorts in the area.
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Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and Laura Tyson of Berkeley's Haas School of Business point out that multinational firms (which pay higher wages than non-multinationals) increased employment in America by 24% in the 1990s.
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At this point, Dodd-Frank requires that banks report on their pay and performance alignment.
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Google Wallet is built to work with the fast growing MasterCard PayPass network-a merchant point of sale service that enables consumers to tap to pay.
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Analysts point to President Robert Mugabe's decision to offer huge unbudgeted pay-outs to Zimbabwe's war veterans in 1997 - after they had protested at being "ignored" - as a key factor in the start of that country's economic collapse.
As Jacobson points out, the mobile commerce ecosystem includes payment processing network companies such as Mastercard (MA), Visa (V) and American Express (AXP) as well as point-of sale (POS) equipment companies like VeriFone (PAY) and NCR Corp. (NCR), which should help alleviate privacy and security concerns.
Bang on cue, Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, is quoted denouncing the idea, saying that "children and young people differ from year to year, making it impossible to measure progress in simplistic terms" (translation: don't blame teachers for bad results, blame the children), and calling performance-related pay "divisive" (well yes, that's the point).
But if at a certain point it leads -- somebody is making a million dollars a year to pay no taxes at all, that's a problem.
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But with Pramana's system in place, spammers would have to pay humans to complete every element of the registration--if a bot took over at any point, the spammer would be revealed.
They, in fact, have brought some of their own assistants to prove that same point -- that it is just plain wrong that middle-class Americans pay a higher share of their income in taxes than some millionaires and billionaires.
They point to the latest rise in civil-service salaries, announced recently by the Pay Review Board, which alone, they say, will add 2% to inflation.
Even if the point-price seems a bit high relative to the cash cost, it may pay to save and invest your money, and to spend your points.
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Put it another way, there's no point loosening now to help growth if you are only going to pay just as much - in growth terms - tightening next year, or the year after, instead.
When it comes to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middle-class Americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point?
Roddick had a break-point opportunity in the next game but failed to take it and he was made to pay dearly for that in the fifth when Federer broke him again then comfortably held serve for a 5-1 lead.
Perhaps rather than taking every element of the report into account, focusing on teacher pay could be a good leaping off point for future reforms, laying the groundwork for more exclusive top-tier education programs and other stepping stones to a more professional teaching labor pool.
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Until that point, Microchip had opted for the standard, incentive-heavy system, in which base pay represented 60% of sales compensation, and commissions accounted for the remaining 40%.
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To say that for-profits are evil or poor quality misses the point because quality is defined by what a customer will pay someone to do.
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If it pans out, then Jin tombs could point to a significant shift in thinking in 12th-century China and provide one more reason to pay attention to this little-known dynasty.
At this point, we know that the budget surpluses of the '90s occurred in part because of the pay-as-you-go law, which said that, well, you should pay as you go and live within our means, just like families do every day.
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