For decades they used their bargaining power to force down the fees they paid to conventional, active fund managers.
Mr Rutte's policy echoes German Chancellor Angel Merkel's plans of strictly adhering to austerity measures that are designed to force down the country's deficit.
And, as they phone home, holiday-makers might even mutter a word of thanks for the European Commission's work to force down outrageous mobile-roaming fees.
Then, with both hands, he broke the hot-dog in half and, with one section in each hand, used the sausage as a plunger to force down the bun as he chewed.
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At the same time, other Chinese have self-organized online to form purchasing groups with enough leverage to force down the price of, say, the new Toyota Yaris they each want to buy.
Ford's other main rival, DaimlerChrysler, may be taking a risk buying 34% of Mitsubishi Motors, just as the Japanese firm has revealed that it has covered up product defects for 20 years, but at least it has used Mitsubishi's problems to force down the asking price and to install its own man as chief operating officer.
Russia, which supports Mr Assad, has refused to back US pressure designed to force him to step down.
We did the top kill -- we were able to force mud down the wellbore to the point where we actually suppressed all the oil.
This is simply due to the fact that regardless of all the new pricing weapons retailers can deploy, and more potentially looming, weak consumer demand will continue to force prices down.
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Such contests can continue into the small hours, since the government is understandably keen to preserve the substance of their proposals, but peers know that ministers will be reluctant to force them to climb down.
And it also leaves out the fact that you could certainly use other methods, as other cities do, to force crime down that don't rely on this kind of very aggressive stop-and-frisk activity that embarrasses and humiliates, and most importantly, drives people away from police.
Portes argues that it would be good news for most of us if the interest rate paid by the government were to rise, because that would show economic growth is reviving - and the need for the Bank of England to force rates down by creating tens of billions of pounds of new money, via quantitative easing, would be over.
The SEC also has to decide whether to force brokerage firms to break down the prices between what clients pay for transaction services and what they pay for research.
The neuroscience of literacy suggests that, sometimes, the best way to make sense of a difficult text is to read it in a difficult format, to force our brain to slow down and process each word.
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This was intended to force it back down on to the sea floor.
In 1998, Brazil's Congress approved a law allowing the air force to shoot down planes that enter Brazilian air space illegally.
Wolves did crack under the City pressure midway through the half when Stearman conceded a penalty after coming in with unnecessary force to bring down Silva.
And there is growing concern that the move could reflect political pressure as well as the urge to use the global crisis as an excuse to force real rates down.
This combination of outcomes - according to the FT - will force the OBR to revise down the amount of economic slack available, to 2.6% of GDP.
Mr Cable called for an amendment to legislation currently before Parliament to force such peers and MPs to stand down from Parliament.
To replace the force of gravity to ensure waste goes down into the toilet, there is actually a vacuum hose that sucks the waste.
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But Democrats said the decision should force Starr to shut down his lengthy investigation.
The FBI said Monday its agents are leading a task force trying to track down the origins of the worm.
However, strong performance from competitors like Oracle and VMware could force IBM to cut down on margins to as low as 2005 levels.
The prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has tried to force local interest rates down, even if this means some further weakness in the currency, the ringgit.
The Treasury cannot, for example, force them to write down mortgage principal to mitigate defaults, even though taxpayers rather than shareholders would bear any associated costs.
President Enrique Pena Nieto has made the fight against organised crime one of his main priorities and has announced the creation of a new federal police force to help drive down murder rates.
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