So, why would anyone want to pay an extra premium to a Medicare Advantage policy for this benefit?
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Advocates say the Bloomberg administration's missteps on homeless policy predate the Advantage program.
Among supporters of the pairing, many people cited Biden's foreign policy experience as an advantage for Obama.
But while it has so far relied on a low-cost manufacturing strategy for its success, it is shifting gears as a restless work force and the results of its one-child policy threaten its manufacturing advantage.
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' Now you want to punish us for building the big, capable, comfortable vehicles Americans wanted to take advantage of that policy .
Another figure reveals some hypocrisy among workers: 72% believe their colleagues are taking advantage of workplace policy when they use sick days to vacation.
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Mr McCain's advantage of foreign policy experience has been countered by Mr Obama, who has attacked the failure of the Republican administration to catch Osama Bin Laden.
One advantage of good tax policy is that more income usually means a bigger tax base.
Beijing rejects the accusation that its exchange-rate policy has given it an unfair advantage.
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And if you find two policies that are equally effective, and one of them has a much worse impact on police community relations than the other, then hopefully over time we'll be able to demonstrate that it would be to the department's advantage to favor that policy that disrupts or disturbs police community relations the least.
Nations have been tempted to take advantage of this through industrial policy that seeks to funnel a lot of money into the hands of an emerging industry.
The advantage for passengers if this policy catches on: the ability to shop around for the best price for each leg of a trip -- even on different airlines.
At Google, 20 percent time was an unwritten policy that the most aggressive employees could take advantage of.
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Secondly, Mobile Learning Week served to guide UNESCO in developing policy guidelines to help national governments to take advantage of the educational opportunities offered by mobile technologies.
Sure, I could probably take advantage of Costco's return policy, but I've come to accept this as my punishment for not reading the reviews -- if you Google the product name, you'll see that I'm not the only one who thinks it's a disaster.
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Even worse, if that S-corp is my competition, the prevailing policy of taxation gives them a rather hefty unfair advantage.
But, as acknowledged in the paper, governments intervene in currency markets to pursue a variety of policy objectives (not just to secure an exporter advantage), including to defend the currency from competitive devaluations.
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His presentation of economic policy, his manipulation of international institutions for domestic advantage and his ability to portray rivals as extremists are tactics that might be adopted by Bill Clinton or Britain's Tony Blair.
Being informed about the hidden costs also provides companies with the advantage of being able to help shape policy and allows them the opportunity to already be ahead of the game in terms of their business practices once new regulation kicks in.
Second, by endorsing a rise in the Chinese currency relative to the dollar, the president and those who support this policy put at risk the vast soft power and competitive advantage the U.S. enjoys by providing Asia and the rest of the world a reliable currency for engaging in trade in goods and financial instruments.
The Republican Party's biggest advantage over the Democrats has long been on foreign and defence policy.
Does Iowa have a distinct advantage over other states in shaping the nation's energy policy?
"This has to do with a business model that exploits U.S. immigration loopholes for competitive advantage, " said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology who studies outsourcing.
The Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge dares students, technologists, designers, policy experts and urban planners, to come up with new solutions to take advantage of the existing pay phone framework and shape the future of public communications infrastructure.
The chief advantage is that this outlaws any national discretion in the conduct of monetary policy: interest rates and the money supply adjust automatically to changes in economic circumstances, with the exchange rate totally fixed.
But policy proposals that fail to take into account advances in medicine and engineering are unlikely to take advantage of human creativity.
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Rather than freeze like a deer caught in the headlights, we need to reposition our portfolios to take advantage of this new world of rising input prices, rising inflation and uncertain monetary policy.
Many legislators and policy experts have assumed that the health care reform legislation would result in a dramatic rise in Medicare Advantage premium charges.
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The twin causes of the deterioration, Deloitte says, are the advances of digital technology, which radically reduces both competitive advantage and barriers to entry by new players, and movements to economic liberalization by our policy makers.
Energy policy is crucial: Developing America's domestic resources means every other industry in the economy can take advantage of lower energy prices and become more globally competitive.
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