In a market economy, firms that adopt high-cost technologies in service to the environment typically have one of three things: a set of consumers whose interest in the environment makes them willing to pay more than market prices, a set of workers willing to sacrifice wages in exchange for environmental friendliness, or a set of investors willing to take below normal returns.
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That is what the American people expect, that we are willing to compromise, that we are willing to get outside of our comfort zone, that we are willing to accept cuts that we would traditionally not want to, that we are willing to look at everything that's being put on the table by all parties.
Airbnb, founded in August 2008, is dedicated to the promise that lots of people are willing to earn money by renting out a room in their home and that lots of people are willing to save money by crashing in strangers' abodes rather than in motels or hotels.
There is no evidence of a functional market of willing sellers and buyers of houses to burn.
This is the reason we are willing to unilaterally approve diplomas and degrees of experts willing to come work in Russia.
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One of the biggest issues that afternoon, when the Dow Jones industrial average briefly plummeted 573 points before recovering minutes later, was the disappearance of willing buyers amid a flood of selling.
As a result, Crawford could very well see the most lucrative payday of his career, new CBA willing of course.
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Any number of willing buyers could step up to buy Discover, Worthington and other analysts say, but not all of the usual suspects may be willing to do a deal now.
Big companies have plenty of banks willing to provide letters of credit or finance for accounts receivable.
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He found out about WorldVistA and Vista Expertise Network, two non-profit organizations that group hundreds of programmers willing to devote some of their time to enhance VistA, and also tailor it to non-VA hospitals and clinics.
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The district court judge stood at the front line of a minority of jurists willing to question the efficacy of these settlements.
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"Eventually and inevetiably, it's going to have an impact on the tiny minority of people willing to carry out acts of violence, " he said.
The other is the therapeutic effect of 96 hours in a willing suspension of cynicism, doubt and irony, as all these amazing visions are displayed.
Why are some of you willing to camp out in front of Apple stores to own them?
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Not surprisingly, investors 65-years and over have the least tolerance for risk with just 16 percent of them willing to take on that kind of gamble in 2010.
Put it another way: by expanding its emergency liquidity facilities, the ECB signalled that it was willing to keep acting as a lender of last resort for banks - and by extension, that it was willing to keep all 17 of the eurozone's national financial systems afloat, while the sovereign debt crisis is resolved.
The sad thing is, I observe many more people willing to travel a path of ruin than I do people willing to change their thinking.
These examples emphasize not only the valuable resources that business aircraft may provide in times of crisis, they also demonstrate the compassion and charity of business aircraft operators willing to give of themselves to help others in their time of need.
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Washington has no shortage of those willing to shatter its illusions, especially of bipartisanship.
"I'm the kind of person willing to pay more in taxes because of all the attributes and benefits Minnesota offers, " said John Taft, CEO of Minneapolis-based RBC Wealth Management.
So the new government will face colossal challenges: the huge numbers of frustrated, unemployed Iraqi youths are a willing pool of recruits, not just for insurgent groups but also for the armed gangs and criminal underworld that hold sway in many parts of the country.
Meantime, the real measure of Mr. Obama's seriousness isn't whether he's willing to spar over dinner but what kind of specific policy compromises he's willing to make.
It should be stressed here that as an individual running a for-profit business, Mozilo should have been free to offer customers all manner of options if willing to suffer the consequences of loans gone wrong.
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Emotional attachment to Concorde, and sovereign pride of the English and French governments, caused the willing suspension of economic reason.
If that's what you want to do, there are plenty of people willing to say yes, I am not one of them.
From Lincoln, he understands the importance of being pragmatic, of being willing to sacrifice one's ideals in quest of achieving a common understanding beyond social divide.
Once that is accomplished, the United States should take the lead in assembling a "coalition of the willing" prepared and disposed to make effective use of military power (namely air assets) to punish the Serbs.
Rights holders need to take advantage of this and engage more in reaching out to displaced fans like you because you are part of a growing number of people willing to pay for this content and the convenience of easy access.
The large crop of willing Asian dollar buyers often has a special link to the dollar.
Even though many of the houses are in poor shape, there are plenty of willing lenders.
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