West Berlin's shop-window prosperity was bought at the price of gross corruption, as crooks and opportunists competed for the lavish West German subsidies.
On top of these items, perhaps the oxygen to the heart if you will, is less of a focus on price competition which has hurt gross margin.
Speaking on Monday, he said he was also "sceptical" of alternative monetary policy targets to price stability, such as gross domestic product targeting, since any, even temporary, loosening of inflation expectations would "poison" central bank credibility.
The gross profit margin shows you just how much price cuts retailers absorbed to attract customers.
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Sustained pressure on gross profit margins as Wal-Mart invests in price globally to ignite sales.
DemandTec, an American specialist, says that price optimisation has boosted some supermarkets' gross profits by over 15%.
"By incorporating Seagate's SSHD technology into our product offerings we are able to address customer demand for greater speed, shorter boot up and response times, optimum storage capacity and better battery life, all at a lower price point, " said Jerry Gross, vice president, Lenovo global procurement.
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To compute real debt growth, we subtract the annual rate of change of the Consumer Price Index from the rate of change of gross total debt.
And that way, Apple could maintain its 70% gross margin with little risk of losing sales at that slightly higher price.
We think that gross margins will take another year to recover as Nike gradually implements price increases to offset the impact of added costs.
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The force's former chief constable Sean Price was sacked in October when he was found guilty of gross misconduct at an IPCC hearing.
"We believe gross margin will continue to fall at a similar rate given the higher price of scrap silicon which we have confirmed in our recent trip to China, " Pichel said.
So, back to Amazon, if they are de-emphasising lower price points, one possibility is that they are looking at overall gross sales.
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Corporate bonds have "the potential for price pressure as corporate profit growth cools and investor demand softens, " Gross writes in his quarterly outlook for the fund's investors.
For one thing, he notes that it may take until 2012 for rivals to price their tablets at a discount to the iPad while still making acceptable gross margins.
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Sean Price was dismissed from the role last month after being found guilty of gross misconduct in relation to the role he played in the recruitment of former police authority chairman Dave McLuckie's daughter to the force.
Mr Price, who remains on bail, was dismissed after being found guilty of gross misconduct.
That means the gross receipts tax would never exceed 20 cents a gallon, no matter how high the price of gas goes.
Thus, despite a non-GAAP gross operating margin of 48.1%, IBM suffered a horrible post-earnings stock price drop.
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If its media vertical gross margins were to decline to 60% by 2016 compared to 75% currently, our price estimate drops by 5%.
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So the company is still growing, has huge hoardings of cash, gross margins to die for and well, why on earth did this lead to the share price falling?
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Adjusted homebuilding gross margin expanded 210 basis points to 23.2% on the back of an increased average sales price, increased deliveries from new higher margin communities and reduced incentives.
There could be a downside of 7% to 8% to our stock price estimate for Wal-Mart if capital spending were to stay at around 13% of gross profits through the end of our forecast period.
The higher gross margin forecast for mobile flash memory cards and other SanDisk products has resulted in a large increase in our price estimate for SanDisk.
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