Flat commissions worked better than the chain's product-based commissions, a tradition for 48 years.
This mimics the product-based structure that he forged in the combined defence businesses of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas after their merger last year.
If this is a product-based business, the govt reaps twice, once via the higher taxes intially charged to the business owner and then again on sales tax charged through sale of goods.
Google's web app still lacks some of the functionality that its Android-based product features - such as indoor and 3D maps, and turn-by-turn directions - giving the firm an opportunity to promote devices powered by its own system over Apple's.
Rakesh says he thinks major PC OEMs will move 10%-15% of their product mix to ARM-based PCs in the 2012-2013 time period.
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"Most of the industry is located in California so I actually need to travel to California, " says Mr. Fernandes, who is the owner and general manager of Bio2, a product-development company based in Brazil.
Abraham introduced his first diet product in the late 1950s--Slim-Mint gum, a benzocaine-based product that allegedly quelled hunger.
Despite adverse market conditions, Samsung's chip business was buoyed by strong demand for server DRAM and by expanding our value-added product mix such as products based on the 30-nanometer-class and 20-nanometer-class process technologies.
The Dangers of Myopic Parochialism: A principal by-product of a decision to cancel space-based and sea-based elements while reactivating the E2I and GSTS would, of course, be to put almost the entire SDI program into the Army's hands -- much of it centered in Huntsville.
And the company said it has acquired Krillion, a provider of location-based product search services.
These are two areas where I would not normally have opted for a Microsoft-based product.
Among other things, critics are concerned that any nicotine-based product will only serve as a gateway to smoking.
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The prospect of earning small fees marketing a reality-based product that is difficult to sell to investors is far less attractive.
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Born in Israel to a Swiss mother and a Canadian father, I am myself a multi-national product currently based in Toronto, Canada.
In short, would critics accept the proposition that ANY tobacco-based product could pose less risk, even if it were formulated into a non-smoked consumable?
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Klaus Holse Andersen, Microsoft vice president for Western Europe, says a year ago, Microsoft had to go around knocking on the doors of small businesses to sell its Web-based product.
The study used an older formula replaced last year with Purell Advanced, an alcohol-based product the company says is more effective at killing bacteria and even easier on the skin.
'Tis also the season to replace your facial cleanser with a gentler, oil-based product, such as one of Shu Uemura's Skin Purifiers, which dissolve dirt and makeup without stripping natural oils.
There may be the very rare patient on an aliskerin-based product for hypertension that are not on an ACEI or ARB, but that population is going to be very, very small.
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One key differentiator in dieting programs is convenience, says Erik Larsen, CEO of Next Advisor, a Web-based product and service review hub which also runs its own research on diet programs.
First, the body fluids must be drained and replaced with a formaldehyde-based product, said Richard Arnold, managing director of the Embalmer Training School in Britain and a qualified embalmer for 20 years.
The digital currency exchange operated by Dominica-based Aurum Capital Holdings, Inc. supports bitcoin as well as Liberty Reserve, Pecunix, Perfect Money, and c-gold and they offer two choices for cashing out into a card-based product.
Like the Rosetta Stone's ubiquitously marketed computer-based product, TOTALe Online works by means of virtual immersion: Regardless of skill level, you listen in on dialogues, repeat sentences and answer questions entirely in the language you're studying.
Not to be confused with a similar product, the UK-based Fitbug has unveiled a collection of new connected health gadgets here at CES. The Fitbug orb is button-sized tracker that measures calories, distance and even pace.
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Just as product- and service-based brands have to choose their celebrity ambassadors carefully, individuals looking to up their personal clout (to say nothing of Klout) should be aware that others will form opinions of them based on their associates.
Trello is a particularly good tool for this, as it allows us to easily visualize tasks and resources across teams, so that, for instance, when our London-based product owner needs to complete a job for a team member in Seattle, all he needs to do is log on to the Trello board, study the relevant details and move forward.
These only work however, if a customer manufactures a moist, non-oil based product, (sodas, smoothies, yogurts etc.), as the dyes are water-soluble.
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My favorite product that I saw at the South By Southwest conference was a PC-based music creation product called Zya.
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Little or no evidence exists that supports the effectiveness of fear-based warnings for a product that carries widely-known risks.
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