Even in highly disciplined Singapore, home of the most sophisticated road-pricing system in the world, citizens have had to be cajoled into accepting the latest flexible charging system with reductions on other motor taxes.
In 2007, about 1.8 million people registered their objection to road-pricing in a petition on the Downing Street website.
Japanese users pay by the packet for the data they use on DoCoMo's networks, but Americans, accustomed to flat-fee Net and phone deals, may balk at pay-per-use pricing that can result in month-end sticker shock.
As it is, time-of-week pricing in the film business is for the most part limited to half-hearted efforts like senior citizen matinees.
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Objective Analysis continues to call for depressed pricing through the first half of 2013, but the industry has moved from its cyclical phase of price collapse to a phase of cost-based pricing, which could result in continuing mild month-to-month growth for the interim.
Meanwhile, Comcast said it was launching a test of use-based pricing in unspecified markets.
Also, company computer network upgrades improved pricing and other in-store operations, which Best Buy had done long before.
With a closed looped of its own related products and services and marketing, AXP pricing has a built-in competitive advantage.
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Different tastes mean it is necessary to change the product assortments, adjust pricing and merchandise in-store differently than the companies were used to.
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Markets were quite adept at quickly pricing information in 2008-2009.
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As with most marketable currencies, equity in a biotech can suffer from deviations from this underlying data-supported value, which can result in over-pricing of assets that lack the intrinsic quality or robustness.
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Pricing on the plug-in Fusion Energi, which Ford says will be the most efficient mid-sized car on the market at 100 mpg equivalent, will be announced closer to its launch date early next year.
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McQuown and Vasicek left Wells separately in the mid-1970s but teamed up in 1983 to apply options-pricing theory to live debt markets.
Accordingly, a slate of torrent portals like Vodo offers consumers media choices that include outright ownership, no-DRM formats that are transferable to mobile devices, zero pricing, added-value bundles and in some cases rudimentary social discovery environments.
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"You'd be led to believe that you put in real-time pricing and a nice Web site and immediately get a 15% reduction in energy use, " says Accenture's Guthridge.
The new drug pricing system due to come in is known as value-based pricing.
But now that markets are pricing in the near-certainty of a Greek default, nobody is thinking about how to manage it.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) certainly remains on tenterhooks with about 30% of futures dealers pricing in a refi-rate (refinancing rate) cut on Thursday.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon told the committee the government would make one last attempt to re-insert minimum pricing in the bill during its final vote in parliament.
Traders have snapped up shares in advance of the elections, and the correlation between bullish sentiment and republican poll numbers indicates that the market is pricing in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
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As a result, he has developed models that allow them to look ahead, integrating their factory-location and pricing decisions in a way that anticipates rivals' responses, and leaves fewer profit opportunities wasted.
Why is time-sensitive pricing so uncommon in Hollywood?
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Because incremental production in these commodities is a multi-year endeavor, strikes, floods and droughts are major variables in near-term pricing.
After warning of falling profits, and in the wake of a mix-up in March in the pricing of some options, it is being forced by unhappy shareholders to reconsider its strategy of building a global investment bank in tandem with its retail business.
With wholesale markets immature or non-existent in much of Europe, pricing remains open to manipulation and cross-subsidy to keep newcomers out.
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In contrast, growth in network and IT-related IM businesses was stunted by heated pricing in the fourth quarter.
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This was a demonstration of a suite of open and extensible software applications for managing energy demand and time-of-use pricing by a firm in Boulder, Colorado, called Tendril.
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If Columbia proves to be as guilty as is alleged, it will hardly be alone in a business that often seems to rival America's defence industry in over-pricing prowess.
Mr. Prouty said that companies poised to benefit from the long-term trend in pricing include Metalico (MEA), Schnitzer Steel Industries (SCHN) and Sims Metal Management (SMS).
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The new SDN strategy, as outlined in January, entails a more flexible pricing wherein instead of selling expensive gear with built-in software at an upfront price, Juniper will sell the gear first and then the software for a recurring licensing fee in a separate transaction.
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