The organization accepts sponsorship dollars from food-related companies that pay family farmers a fair price, have ecological standards for farming practices, and make their commitment to sustainable and family farming known to their customers.
While gas is down 25% since the summer, the pump price remains high by recent standards, and the Consumer Confidence Index has wobbled down since spring.
It is also well known that long-run price stability was achieved under commodity standards but never under pure fiat money.
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Sales taxes, too, are important because they further reduce living standards by raising the price of goods and services that can be purchased with after-tax income.
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Allmark said the company would use this recall as an opportunity to put even better systems in place to monitor vendors whose conduct does not meet the standards of Fisher-Price parent Mattel.
But the size and buying power of Vodafone AirTouch, as the new entity will be known, will give it unrivalled ability to set technical standards and to extract price reductions from handset and network-equipment manufacturers.
By the time new money and credit has passed through many hands, it has lost substantial value as prices are bid up, people find that their purchasing power lags behind consumer price increases, and their living standards fall.
As in the case for all gold standards, setting the gold conversion price at the correct level would be crucial.
This drove up prices, which because houses are collateral for housing loans, led to futher easing in lending standards and a further increase in price.
Governments can try to reduce emissions in three ways: subsidise alternatives, impose standards on products and processes and price the greenhouse gases that cause the damage.
Most economists see the job falling naturally to central banks, because of their closeness to markets and because of the link between capital standards and monetary policy through the price of credit.
The price of labor in China is low in international standards.
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Obviously if the derivative assets were included in the balance sheet as they are under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) rules, the price-to-book ratio would be significantly lower.
The bill is also designed to make it easier for councils to intervene in schools when there is concern about standards and allows schools to vary the price of school meals to help low-income families.
That means assuming the quality of a watch fits your own personal standards, it is difficult to put a price on artistic expression or emotional desire.
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Across Europe the price of water has gone up along with higher European standards for the purity of drinking water and for the treatment of waste.
In fact, Numbeo shows that even in our coastal cities, price-to-income ratios are very reasonable by world standards.
Non-standards patents do not have to be licensed and any price, however extreme, can be charged.
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UBS, its big Swiss bank rival, which has no insurance group attached, files under both American and international standards and has recently enjoyed a much more stable share price (see chart).
Constraints include a lack of on-hand ready-to-build lots (the price of pre-developed land lots has skyrocketed), tight lending standards for small to mid-sized builders, and a notable shortage of construction workers since tradesmen fled the city several years ago and have not returned.
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Under normal conditions, the price we ultimately paid for Bear Stearns would have been considered low by most standards.
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During peacetime, commodity standards (silver or gold) worked through market forces to achieve price stability, and thus safeguarded the purchasing power of money.
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Even before it has moved into full-scale production, the plane has already increased in price by 75%, and it has so far failed to meet basic performance standards.
Martin endorsed the deal in exchange for concessions including turning 24 channels over to noncommercial and minority programming, a three-year price freeze for customers, packages offering services from both XM and Sirius, and standards designed to encourage competition from the companies that make their radios.
Standards related patents must be licensed: the question is what is a fair price?
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The Food Standards Agency said "very low levels" had been detected in the Asda Smart Price Corned Beef product.
Consumption of chicken meat in Malaysia is high by global standards, with per-capita consumption around 77 pounds, reflecting in part subsidies and price controls.
Price stability is a utopian concept on its best day that would hamper innovation on the way to reduced living standards.
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