But universities can legally set the price of programs by colluding on the rules for scholarships.
Class-action lawsuits in America and Europe have challenged their ability to set the price of e-books.
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They set the price high and they withheld a certain amount of propane from the market, allegedly.
Wind shares are being slowed by low natural gas prices, which generally set the price of electricity.
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Google Editions will let publishers set the price of their books, he said, and will accept the agency model.
If you get sick under Japan's socialized health care system, the government will set the price of your medicine.
Natural gas prices set the price of electricity so now, with gas prices relatively low, the target is small.
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"Real Madrid have the player and set the price, " said Scolari on Friday.
InfoGear doesn't set the price for the iPhone, but defers to its resellers.
It's like paying a salesman a commission based on the volume of sales and letting him set the price of goods sold.
In today's barbell world, Fidelity has just set the price for beta.
If firms are passing up easy opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by re-using waste, then governments have set the price of emissions too low.
Low-cost carriers often set the price in markets because competitors feel compelled to match that price or risk losing customers and flying empty seats.
It connects its participating advertisers with participating users, and the users can set the price per pin and customize the message to fit their personality.
These cities have powerful taxi unions that work hand-in-hand with city governments to step up fares continuously in exchange for letting the city set the price.
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And the owners of the coffee shop set the price high enough that they were willing to part with as much coffee as I chose to drink.
Airlines set the price for mileage tickets much as they do in cash tickets: As seats sell, or strong demand is predicted, the price generally goes up.
If the spread is wider than a few cents, you can also set the price limit somewhere in the middle, though at the risk of not getting the order filled.
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In turn, high natural gas prices pushed up electricity prices in many parts of the country, especially in states like New York where highest-priced gas-fired generators set the price of electricity during high-demand hours.
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In this case, Viacom set the price for a group of its most-popular channels above that of a package that bundled the bigger channels with little-watched outlets, say multiple people familiar with the situation.
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Cool as the iPhone is--I'm buying one this weekend--the price couldn't be sustained in the world of the cheap revolution, where Moore's Law drives the cost down and buyers in China and India set the price.
As Apple prepared to introduce its first iPad, the late Steve Jobs, then its chief executive, suggested moving to an "agency model, " under which the publishers would set the price of the book and Apple would take a 30% cut.
" Describing Apple's strategy for negotiating with the publishers, Mr. Jobs said, "We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway.
Electric and natural gas utilities that provide partial (or full) service to consumers are heavily regulated by government agencies, which set the price utilities charge customers for electric and gas service, the terms of that service, capital budgets and construction plans and so forth.
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"We told the publishers, 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway, '" Mr. Jobs was quoted as saying by his biographer, Walter Isaacson.
The complaint states that the companies accomplished their conspiracy by agreeing to stop the longstanding practice of selling e-books, as they long sold print books, on wholesale to bookstores, and leaving it to the bookstores to set the price at which they would sell the e-books to consumers.
When drivers reserve a parking spot with the ParkNow app on their smartphone or tablet, they receive a QR code, which they scan at the garage entrance. (The fee is charged to their credit card.) Neff said ParkNow receives a marketing fee from the garage owner for each reservation and the operators set the price.
The former Apple CEO "conceded the price-fixing conspiracy when, the day after publicly announcing Apple's forthcoming iBookstore, he explained to his authorized biographer that Apple had told the publishers, 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway, '" the government says in court papers.
They take the company on a road show to meet potential investors, and they set the opening price for the stock.
In the new arrangement, called the "agency model, " the publisher set the retail price and the bookstore agreed per contract not to discount.
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