It is my hope that just as girls of my generation were free to choose their own careers, regardless of the barriers of entry in terms of gender imbalance, that my son's generation will experience the same kind of liberation.
The move is the latest in a series of policy changes aimed at lowering the barriers of entry for new banks.
These include opening the doors of credit for the poor, simplifying and reducing barriers of entry, liberating education markets, expanding access to clean water, and improving the rule of law.
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We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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Such an action would drive historically low interest rates even lower, including the 30-year mortgage rate, furthering reducing the barriers of entry for potential homebuyers.
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Not all the effects of the lowering of the barriers to entry are bad.
The acceleration of vaccine development through cloning has broken down the sector's traditionally high barriers to entry, which has attracted the attention of pharmaceutical companies.
Crazy as it sounds, even though venture capitalists stand to benefit individually by reduced capital gains taxes--partners split 20% to 30% of a fund's profits--the reduced rates would also lower entry barriers for new competition in the form of angels and corporations.
When the means of production were expensive and the barriers to entry high, having a dad who owned a newspaper chain or a billboard company was a pretty good way to get a running start in the media business.
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The company hopes that two other things will act as barriers to entry: the size of its library and the efficiency of its distribution system.
Despite the threat of recent entrants and relatively low barriers to entry in the car-sharing space, Zipcar possesses several strengths which it can use to its advantage.
The real question is to what extent branded companies such as Amgen which are also developing biosimilars want to limit the future role of these products or simply raise the barriers to entry.
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But the thinking behind those mandates is that they reduce the barriers to entry and help build economies of scale.
We assume that CSX will be able to hold onto its current market share in coal freight market till the end of our forecast period due to high barriers to entry in the industry.
The regulators explained that their progress has been hampered by lack of resources, the large agencies tried to impress committee members by describing their hefty expenditures on heightened compliance and stronger controls, and the smaller agencies complained about high costs of regulations, barriers to entry, and took as many shots at the Big Three as they could fit in.
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One of the big barriers to entry could be retail shelf space.
Yet these options are denied to large sections of the economy due to entry barriers from licensing requirements and regulatory hurdles that systematically disadvantage small, new firms.
The Internet threatens radio broadcasters by destroying the barriers to entry created by the government's licensing of airwaves.
In the old days, manufacturing plants and distribution networks created sizeable barriers to entry which kept upstarts out of the record companies' business.
One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.
And in the age of a global economy, capital is going to flow where it finds the fewest barriers to entry.
Time tested economic theory tells us that in a free, unfettered market not constrained by onerous barriers to entry, the long term price of a commodity will approach its marginal cost of production.
Especially since Sept. 11, 2001, applicants and visitors (and their would-be hosts) have been screaming about the barriers put in the way of legitimate entry to the U.S. and the sometimes Kafkaesque experience of being caught up in the process.
In monopolistic cases, according to Almunia, the commission must consider barriers to entry to competitors, whether a company can use its dominant position to affect the status of other companies, and the ease of consumers to switch between services.
Unlike the emerging Ankle Biter Economy, the industrial economy had massive barriers to entry and a wide variety of characteristics and factors that consistently rewarded bigness and institutionalized stability.
Now that Berlusconi is out of power, experts suggest that the barriers to entry that he put up in order to keep Mediaset a powerhouse will be methodically stripped away.
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Zynga also operates in a market where barriers to entry are becoming significantly higher as the quality of social games continues to increase, said Tom Taulli, an independent IPO expert.
Although LinkedIn currently has a unique advantage of mixing social networking with recruitment services, the barriers to entry are low.
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The fact that barriers to entry are low in this racket makes for plenty of competition, probably more than 100 smallish mystery publishers.
Over the 20th century these guilds did a wonderful job of raising barriers to entry sometimes for good reasons (nobody wants to be operated on by a barber) and sometimes for self-interested ones.
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