This premium charge was not an accident.
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And if you think that this represents some vast leap in premium prices, I would hasten to remind you that, just two years ago, Wisconsin health insurance companies sought a 17.2 percent, year to year increase in the average premium charge for individual policies in Wisconsin.
Some premium systems charge extra because they have so many satellites aloft.
By law, a physician or hospital cannot charge premium pricing for a Medicare-reimbursed service or procedure.
It is at least partially this that enables the company to charge premium prices for its products.
If you become too large a portion of it then you cannot continue to charge premium prices: thus margins shrink.
Since launching ESX, the company has pretty much had the market all to itself--a happy turn that allowed it to charge premium licensing prices.
Its reputation is so good it can actually charge premium prices.
Restaurants buy from local farms, the Black Isle and Cromarty breweries and the Cromarty pottery, making for a distinctive, high-quality offer for which they can charge premium prices.
There is a false mystique to asset protection planning that has often allowed planners to charge premium prices for selling cutting-edge strategies to their clients at premium prices, when boring and inexpensive solutions probably would have worked better.
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Yet most beer tastes remarkably similar, so it is hard to charge a premium for it.
The nature of the overall Starbucks experience allows the chain to charge a premium price for its products.
As markets recover, while weaker banks struggle, healthy firms charge a premium and remain selective with risk appetite.
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The discounts are significant, since most state prepaid plans now charge a premium to current tuition for future years.
Maybe malls will provide free rent to pot shops and charge a premium to the nearby tenants selling munchies.
Tilemakers can charge a premium for the coated tile and are expected to become eager customers for the nanotech product.
's Galaxy Tabs for no charge in premium cabins on some flights, including on 767s that don't otherwise have individual screens.
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In Google Maps, that advertising includes brand icons--a first for Google, and one that likely allows them to charge a premium.
Mulpuri says the premium his company will charge for the glass should be offset by the savings in heating and cooling systems.
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El Salvador's Ministry of Agriculture is now in negotiations with the international coffee community to charge a premium for its "biodiversity-friendly" coffee.
Not only that, the companies themselves charge a premium for diesel models.
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The basic idea is that drug companies charge a premium here in the U.S. for patented medications to which they have exclusive rights.
If they have excess spaces available, they might offer a discount or if parking is tight, could charge a premium for a reservation.
SunPower and First Solar had been able to charge a premium for their panels and enjoy fat margins, because both make very efficient panels.
"If you give a customer a good quality product, you can charge a premium price, " says Janice Meyer, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.
In some cases, they can even charge a premium for it.
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The basic Looker app will be free but Kogeto plans to charge for premium features like sophisticated editing tools and greater amounts of storage on its site.
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McKinsey found Sony could charge a premium of up to 40% for televisions in developed markets, but even a 10% mark-up in China can put consumers off.
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