Helping with seed, advice, fertiliser, and offering the small farmer the ability to band together to counterweight the market power of the large buyers.
Big mistake No. 1: Under the 1996 deregulation measure, investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric were required to sell most of their power generating plants to other private companies, and to become buyers of wholesale electric power.
The balance of power between component buyers and component sellers may be about to shift in a fairly radical way over the next 24 months.
And just like that, a 155-year old company challenged the establishment and disrupted the power of the elite coterie of editors and retail buyers to deliver the latest style.
Access to price information shifts the balance of power to the buyers: they can buy as little or as much as they need, treating the order form as if it were a spreadsheet, to see the effect of volume discounts or of adding or removing features.
The shrinking pool of potential buyers is giving people of means unusual bargaining power.
Its chief advantage has been the power of many. eBay delivers the efficiency of a global market to buyers and sellers, no matter how small they might be, in a neatly packaged way.
This rapid increase in the number of buyers and their purchasing power will likely drive home prices into a bubble.
Power and Associates says 62% of new-car buyers first consult the Internet for invoice prices, sticker prices and trade-in values.
Sure thing, none of those can be had at that price with that much power, but power isn't the sole arbiter of what wagon buyers want.
Statewide, 65% of commercial buyers sidestep the utility companies for power needs.
That was a contrast from 2011, when the fortress balance sheets and more predictable earnings power of firms like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo drew more buyers.
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The Hemi also delivers better fuel economy, thanks to its multidisplacement system. (At cruising speeds, four of the Hemi's eight cylinders shut down, conserving fuel.) So Hemi buyers get all the power and not much of the guilt.
The balance of power in commodities markets has passed, for now, from buyers to suppliers.
Using some of that processing power on security and other specialized functions should aid hardware buyers, he said.
After a few dozen sales to Hollywood enviro-stars, reality sets in: the vast majority of high-end luxury sedan buyers want V-8 power.
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The Battersea Power Station Development Co. says buyers put down payments on 75% of the 850 flats in the first week of sales early this year.
Recall how the private equity buyers of Texas utility txu agreed last year to cancel eight power plants to defuse environmental opposition.
Buyers of insurance, on the other hand, welcome the growing bargaining power of their brokers, since it gets them cheaper rates.
Nevada Power had been lining up buyers for its ten company-owned electricity plants, as part of deregulation.
As consumers and enterprise buyers spend more of their dollars on portable post-PC devices, the balance of power is going to change.
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