As prices fell, the government bought grain or paid farmers to store it, creating a price floor.
In fact, it is almost impossible to find examples of private action sustaining an artificially high price floor.
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Green investors such as Silicon Valley's Vinod Khosla regularly call for a price floor on gas to support the industry.
In November of that year the Mexicans agreed to a price floor of 46 cents a kilo for their exports.
After the U.S. resumed the investigation, both sides agreed to the price floor, and the investigation was again called off.
Florida growers would have liked an even higher price floor, says Reginald Brown, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange.
"The bidding on DoubleClick just represents a price floor, " he says.
It would prohibit the sale of discounted tobacco products, impose packaging requirements on cheap cigars and create a price floor for cigarette packs and small cigars.
Many economists oppose minimum wage altogether, arguing that the created price floor would pose as a barrier for those deemed underqualified to warrant earning a minimum wage.
People in the industry are arguing for a price floor.
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He welcomed the decision to exempt NI from the carbon price floor - a tax measure that would have undermined the competitiveness of energy generators within the all-island market, he said.
With the carbon market now flailing, Mr Brookes and others worry that national governments will increasingly introduce their own, competing climate policies, such as the UK's carbon price floor or the Dutch tax on coal.
Second, governments should not pick winners or give out extensive subsidies. (Translation: Ethanol is a bad idea, and other existing "renewables, " such as wind power, are unlikely to ever be more than a niche source.) Better to have a small carbon tax to place a price floor for competing technologies, and offer large cash prizes, similar to the X-Prize for private space flight, for specified energy breakthroughs.
Ailouros was granted a three-month window in which to buy the shares at an 8% discount to the seven-day-average trading price, or a floor price set by Research Frontiers.
Not only will consumers pay more for foreign and domestically grown tomatoes at the grocery store and for salads and hamburgers at restaurants, but the new price-floor terms provide a strong indication that the specter of uncertainty associated with antidumping administration provides the necessary leverage to induce foreign producers into pricing schemes indistinguishable from collusion and price-fixing.
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On the portfolio side, establish a price, or at least a floor on the price, of the troubled assets.
But it's also another big user of energy, and the carbon floor price will cost firms millions.
His planned environmental tax, the Carbon Floor Price, will raise the cost of energy from fossil fuels.
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The government will then set a floor price and an upper limit for at least the first three years to avoid excessive price fluctuations.
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That could cost 600 jobs, and the company says the new carbon floor price is a factor as it uses large amounts of energy to produce the metal.
Mr Cameron's promise on March 18th to bring in an economy-wide floor price for carbon did much to revive his reputation for greenery, which had sagged as the economy slumped.
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If the floor price isn't met, it could be auctioned again as well, but Arbogast suspects that wireless technology firm Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ) will step up and grab it.
The directive limits the number of hours they can operate before shutting down, and many coal plants are choosing to burn through their remaining permitted hours by April when the UK government introduces a carbon floor price.
It could have signed up to Fairtrade, an international social movement that promotes the payment of above-market prices to producers of agricultural commodities in developing countries by setting a floor price, with an additional premium that goes to farmers for reinvestment and social projects.
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Various ways have been suggested, from setting a carbon floor-price to tightening the cap.
But it will get more expensive to produce, putting a floor on the price that is way above today's.
And since it is hard to cut nominal wage rates, price stability could put a floor beneath real wages.
If passed into law, it would amount to a de facto floor on the price of gas relative to ethanol.
The ground level offers the most casual fare, while the middle floor extends the price and menu into a more expensive, contemporary realm.
In this case, the ECB might put a floor under the price of borrowing for the Italian, and maybe even the French, governments, by saying it would stand behind them no matter what.
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