Many corporations would rather pay interest expenses since they are tax-deductible, whereas dividends are not.
We would rather pay 20 times more for bottled water with more impurities than the treated water.
But the Dwr Cymru Welsh Water spokesman said the suggestion that we would rather pay fines than solve problems is complete nonsense.
Some of its customers are impatient buyers who would rather pay full whack, say, for a suit than wait for the sales.
They say the main problem is that most small businesses don't actually want to borrow - that they would rather pay off their debts.
Paying lower fees while a loved one is healthy might appeal to families who would rather pay as they go but are glad to have the person settled in a place that can meet changing needs as an illness progresses.
Would you rather pay the same for a standard room as for a suite?
But in almost all cases lower import prices are good for consumers and the economy: would you rather pay more or less for your car?
We would probably rather pay more to get into an existing franchise than to spread a bunch of money around trying to develop the next big hit.
While Eni would rather quietly pay off the Kazakh government with cash than give up its role as project leader, a withering of support from its consortium peers could mean just that.
In other words, if a credit card company tried to recoup funds from a fraudulent transaction, Reedy would have to pay rather than the fraudsters operating the third-party sites.
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Put bluntly, the investment bankers spent the bulk of the last week surveying investors, trying to get a sense of what they would pay, rather than assessing what Facebook was worth.
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They would continue to pay compensation rather than disclose sensitive information in public, causing serious "reputational damage".
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However, in some hardship cases, there may be an option to participate in part, rather than in full, meaning you would pay all you owe for one type of tax or one year rather than the entire balance.
It would not be lack of ability to pay, but rather little willingness to do so, that would lead to debt restructuring.
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It turned out drivers would rather haggle for the Accord than pay a fixed price for the Taurus.
Almost 71 percent of citizens said they would prefer to pay a service fee rather than fund e-government initiatives through taxes.
He'd be even more gung ho if he had the confidence that every time he accidentally found oil, Pemex would pay him to produce it rather than order him to plug the well.
That so many investors would pay this much attention to a rather esoteric report seems a bit odd.
That more employees would rather see their boss replaced than receive a pay raise, though, puts the problem into stark perspective, particularly in an economy where salaries are stagnating.
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In the 1990s Truman Bewley of Yale University interviewed hundreds of employers and discovered that, faced with a slump in demand, they would rather lay some workers off than cut the pay or hours of everybody.
The middle classes would prefer to forget about this situation, rather than pay more taxes to rectify it.
Many viewed this as both a cynical and shrewd move by Huffington given that AOL would have surely preferred to pay using its shares rather than a large percentage of its cash.
For MLB, in addition to owning undervalued assets, a buyout would present an opportunity to share in revenues rather than just pay to move talent overseas, and to take a first step toward an all-out global league.
The euro zone doesn't like the idea of having to pay for a Greek bailout, but it would rather that have an entity from outside Europe, like the International Monetary Fund or the U.S, , enter the fray and tarnish the credibility of the European Union and the euro.
First, employees receiving higher pay would feel more warmly toward their employers and would rather reciprocate than retaliate.
On August 17th the Treasury drove a stake through those hopes, announcing that rather than pay a 10% dividend, the companies would henceforth simply send every penny of profit its way.
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