To keep prices low, the company sources fabric directly from producers in England and Italy.
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Generating companies suspect that these latter-year contracts have been dropped to keep prices low.
He also needs to keep prices low at a time when food costs are rising ever higher.
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Trying to keep prices low favours textile makers but is bad for farmers who grow the stuff.
Some politicians, like Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.), want to block LNG exports altogether, insisting U.S. gas would better serve America if it remains at home to keep prices low.
For the next 10 years she came up against big names in Kenya's wine industry, but in 2007, taxes imposed on alcohol manufacturing made it difficult to keep prices low.
However, these studies do show that farmers (who get only about 30% of the retail price for meat) have much weaker bargaining power than the food processors and the supermarkets who can use their clout to keep prices low.
ISPs needed to keep their prices low to fend off competition even as they boosted their investment in infrastructure and communications in order to keep up with rapidly growing demand.
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Farmers were frequently not paid the full world price for their crops, because governments were determined to keep local prices low in order to relieve hard-pressed consumers.
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The New York Times had a big scoop recently on a lawsuit in Boston that accuses some of the biggest private-equity firms including Bain Capital, TPG and KKR of conspiring to keep takeover prices low during the leveraged-buyout boom from 2003 to 2007.
That's a habit that forces companies to keep prices relatively low, which eats into profits.
The government broke with economic orthodoxy and introduced a subsidy for wheat flour to keep bread prices low.
On such a country does the world depend to keep crude prices low.
Exports have been banned to keep sugar prices low in India at a time when sugar prices were rising in the futures market.
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It is the urban poor that should worry and maybe the rulers of poor and fragile nations, who have traditionally striven to keep food prices low.
As the cost of his imported products -- Idaho potatoes, beef and onions -- has recently risen with the weaker yen, he has absorbed the increases in order to keep his prices low.
Provided everyone plays by the same rules, and producers don't get subsidies that enable them to keep their prices artificially low, it makes sense for consumers to be free to buy what they want from whomever they want.
The Bolivian government withdrew its heavy subsidies for petrol and diesel on Sunday, saying it was not prepared to keep fuel prices artificially low.
But that obsession to serve has now been replaced with an obsession to cut costs and keep prices low, which was just one of the methods Walton used to bring his cause to life.
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The recent round of quantitative easing will fail to keep bond prices high with yields low so we will continue to short the long term Treasury bond, seeing virtually no opportunity in bonds.
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Controls and prohibitions help to keep prices higher, and higher prices help keep use rates relatively low.
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Meanwhile, Amazon which already operates at a razor thin net margin of 0.6% is going to have to find a way to cut costs if it hopes to maintain profitability and keep its prices as low as they were to consumers before it collects state sales taxes from them.
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The good news is that weak inflation in China, due to lackluster domestic demand and some lower commodity prices, will allow Beijing monetary authorities to keep interest rates low in the coming months.
Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has kept interest rates artificially low, and prices unusually high, by buying bonds in an effort to keep interest rates low and stimulate the struggling US economy.
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Airlines say the extra fees keep overall ticket prices low, allowing passengers to only pay for the services they want.
He worked hard to keep costs down so that Wal-Mart could keep prices low so that the average working American could get the most out of the money they earned.
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But to keep it alive, the Saudis might have to use their muscle significantly boost output and gut oil prices low enough that it inflicts enough financial pain on its wayward brethren to get them back in line.
Fed policy will keep interest rates very low and this will continue to drive stock prices higher.
The US gets a cheap and stable source of funding for its trade deficit, allowing the economy to continue to grow as consumers purchase cheap foreign goods - whose low prices keep inflation in check.
Unusually for a carmaker, Lexus even varies production to keep inventories low, which reduces the pressure on dealers to lower their prices.
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