While pharmacies offer plan members, prescription drugs at seemingly high discounts, often to the tune of 40% and above over the entire period, the consumers often purchase other drugs uncovered by the plans and other personal care products such as soaps, shampoos and the like on their visits to the pharmacies which brings in additional sales.
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Toyota's luxury car business, Lexus, was created from scratch, rather than by the purchase of some other firm's famous, but tired, brand.
The government said the arrangement violated the federal anti-kickback statute prohibiting the offer or payment of rebates and other inducements to cause the purchase of any drug or service covered by Medicare, Medicaid or other healthcare program.
The ECB's purchase of bonds will be matched by the selling of other securities.
Google says it has been carbon neutral since 2007, offsetting its greenhouse gas emissions by signing contracts to purchase renewable energy from wind farms and the like and by buying carbon credits that help finance other green power projects.
In addition, the Treasury's Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) plans to subsidize the purchase of banks' "toxic assets" by hedge funds and other investors.
Not only would this kill an important and valuable industry, it would have many other potential pitfalls, including games rendered worthless by the purchase of a second system.
Founded in March 2011, Artspace is an online platform where collectors can purchase works by contemporary artists directly from commercial galleries as well as museums and other nonprofits.
The fund was separate from other funds at Intellectual Ventures that were established by Myhrvold to purchase patents.
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As a result, unlike every other product and service Americans purchase, health care for many was paid by a third party.
Should they purchase emissions allowances from other participants in the market or should they find ways to reduce emissions by implementing changes in their operations?
The proposed app lets anyone credit their account by providing live training through IM or video chat, and later use these credits to purchase training on other topics from community members.
In other news, shares in Alcoa moved dramatically after news of the purchase of Canadian aluminum producer Alcan by London-based Rio Tinto, staging an 8.6% rally Thursday through the stock's all-time high set in 2001.
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