And as a last resort, NYPD would raise prices of some menu items, Mr. Stark says.
In its lengthy filing with the Federal Communications Commission opposing the merger, Sprint said the combination would raise prices for consumers, presumably a good thing for a smaller competitor who could follow suit with impunity.
For example, House Democrats recently passed a cap-and-trade bill that would raise energy prices.
An announcement by the electricity regulator that three state-owned generating companies would raise their prices by 16-22% was quickly countermanded.
The bill would raise energy prices, of course, and therefore the price of everything that requires energy to make or distribute.
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I've sat in staff meetings where it was disscussed how we would raise customer prices multiple times per year through various methods.
Mr McMeikan also said that the retailer would probably raise prices slightly this year to help cover the increasing cost of ingredients.
Romney says it would raise gasoline prices by 50 cents a gallon without making a dent in greenhouse gas emissions from other countries.
It is disingenuous of the administration to imply that extracting more tax from the oil companies, which it would do like a shot if Congress allowed it, would not raise prices at the pump.
Such a tariff would only raise farm prices at home, of course.
Natural gas export is a sensitive political issue and more than one industrial company has complained that such exports would raise domestic gas prices and hence harm American business and the economy in general.
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Then, you can assume that food companies like Kraft Foods Group, Mondelez International and General Mills, as well as the likes of ConAgra and Kellogg, would in turn raise their prices.
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It would mean that companies can raise prices faster than their cost of supplies.
This would, he concedes, raise prices of most things for all Americans and drive some enterprises out of business, but Unz argues that neither of these drawbacks would be terribly severe.
Using an obscure formula called the Herfindahl-Hirschman (sounds like a craft beer) Index, the government fears that both Budweiser and Corona would be able to raise their prices in lockstep after a merger, thereby harming consumers.
Second, if investors and firms believed that the Fed, say, would raise interest rates as equity prices soared, they would have borrowed less, so the bursting of the bubble would have less potential for wreaking havoc.
No businessperson today would think it logical to raise his prices in the face of declining sales.
So, failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause housing prices and gasoline to fall, -precipitously.
But if retail workers got a raise, would consumers have to pay higher prices to make up for it?
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But the increase would be only apparent, since sellers tended to raise the prices of their goods to absorb the extra funds.
One proposed solution, using a solvent, would consume 29% of the plant's power and raise electricity prices 65%.
"The Bank is very unlikely to raise rates further and they could even come down, which would help support prices, " he added.
This increase would raise the housing stock by only 1%, which in turn would lower prices by no more than 2%, calculates John Muellbauer, a housing economist at Oxford University.
"This proposed change would address consumer concerns that it is unfair that providers are currently able to raise prices, while they themselves have little choice but to accept the increase or pay a penalty to exit the contract, " said Ofcom.
And most importantly, its costs would drop below its price and as the company gained market share, it could raise prices to customers who bought the product after the company had gone way down the learning curve.
Many retailers argue that such a long period would aggravate confusion and raise costs hugely, especially if they are legally required always to use two prices, as some consumer groups want.
Rents directly or indirectly account for 29% of America's consumer-price index, so rising inflation would force the Fed to raise interest rates more swiftly, which could trigger a fall in house prices.
Indeed, without the recent fall in oil and commodity prices, America's inflation rate would have risen, forcing the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
And when immigrants working for low wages do put downward pressure on natives' wages, they may raise the (real) wages of natives in general by keeping prices lower than they otherwise would be.
The additional games would bring more leverage to negotiate more lucrative contracts with the networks and also give teams an opportunity to raise ticket prices.
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