Medicare can purchase -- use their bargaining power to make prescription drug purchases more efficient.
Intelisys software automates the purchase-approval process, freeing up the purchasing department to spend time, say, negotiating better prices.
The program evolved from the Community Development Department's purchase-rehabilitation program for low-income neighborhoods.
A. Semi purchase -- after previously considering Intel's Atom, as the story goes.
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The cash crisis forced Gall and Cooke to rely on purchase-order financing--in essence, factoring receivables before they are even receivable.
Ariba, which made purchase-automation software, began its shift in May 2004 and launched its first two Web offerings in October 2005.
More than half of Vodafone's purchase--5.6%--was from American private equity firm Warburg Pincus, while the remaining 4.4% was from Mittal himself.
American Express (Amex) has launched a purchase-by-tweet service for its US-based customers.
Middle-market purchase-price multiples for LBOs dropped further in the third quarter, averaging 7.2x, down from 8.3x in the second quarter, according to LCD.
Amex members wishing to use the purchase-by-tweet facility must first link their card to their Twitter account via the financial services firm's app.
At that price, many consumers will have a hard time justifying a 3DS purchase -or may just buy one of the console systems instead.
The beauty of cookies is that they can estimate which ad may have prompted a customer's purchase--even if the customer never clicked on that ad.
In the third quarter the average purchase-price multiple for a large buy-out was 9.1 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), higher than in 2006.
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If you happen to patronize an independently owned gas station or grocery store, there's a chance your card company's purchase-coding system won't recognize it and you'll get the lower rebate rate.
Swartz was long gone from Reddit by then -- he was let go just after the Conde Nast purchase -- but believed in the ethos of the site and the open Internet in general.
But if neither have the time nor the inclination to comparison shop on every purchase--and given that the more you spend, the more the rewards pile up--you might as well sign on with one supplier to ease the pain.
It turns out Americans had a great deal of interest in watching their favorite NFL teams select players, and ESPN proceeded to ride out its quirky content purchase--with which the all-powerful networks couldn't be bothered--to become the most prominent name in sports.
The media-modeling tool was kicked into high gear two years ago when Chad Jacoby, senior manager of Nissan's Business Intelligence Unit, used years of Nissan's consumer research to build a computer model comparing the relationship of each phase of their "purchase funnel"--from awareness to purchase consideration to a transaction--to the phase before it.
" Other investors suing Bell for fraud point out that "a simple telephone call--let alone a regular practice of verifying the purchase orders--would have revealed that the retailers had not issued the purchase orders.
As a user, I would rather give such sensitive information at the point-of-purchase or point-of-request.
They also recommend new highly-targeted government subsidies, such as tax credits, to encourage moderate-income consumers to purchase long-term care insurance.
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Langton said families have been pleased with the pricing model because it often costs less to fly with children using the pay-by-weight model than it would to purchase flat-fare seats.
Further gains-that is, gains over and above original purchase price-are taxed at 20%.
So I worry about the loss of brick-and-mortar bookstores, even as I very consciously purchase e-books and read them on my phone or Kindle.
Among other things, its shares never recovered after 2005, when it grossly overpaid in an all-stock purchase of storage-software provider Veritas.
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We were told, of course, that the optimal means of meeting Japan's air defense commitments in the 1990's -- namely, an off-the-shelf purchase of F-16's -- had been categorically rejected by the Japanese and that the FS-X deal was the best of the remaining options.
Over two-thirds of parents surveyed told researchers that they planned to purchase name-brand sneakers and jeans for their children before the first school bell rings this fall.
The company said that the Department of Defense authorized the purchase of six F-35A aircraft for the Air Force and tentatively approved the purchase of six F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps.
"Today's action preserves the commission's decision to protect consumers and prevents cable companies from either choosing to cut off signals of must-carry broadcast stations after the digital conversion, or requiring customers to purchase higher-priced packages with set-top boxes to receive the same analog channels in digital, " said Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC, in a statement.
Sheth says the new Mini appliances--which can search either 200, 000 or 300, 000 documents, depending on purchase price--are targeted toward medium- to large-sized businesses.
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