In conjunction with weak unions, the state's high unemployment rate enables employers to keep down wages.
Gore officials say the limited sign-up is necessary to keep down the overall cost of the drug benefits.
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This happened to America in the early 1970s, when President Nixon banned oilseed exports to keep down domestic prices.
Measures to keep down prices in the south-east will diminish the tendency for growth to spin out from the south-east.
Help us help you, airlines pleaded with customers, asking them to urge Congress to keep down fuel prices by curbing speculation.
Thus a strong dollar is also in the interest of America's overheating economy right now as it is helping to keep down inflation.
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The main objective of smart power meters is to lower the peak load and thus enable utilities to keep down their peak generating capacity.
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This likely move by the Fed is also bullish for gold because it continues to keep down the opportunity cost to hold gold, Melek said.
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They were a way to keep down inflation, but they also encouraged excessive borrowing in foreign currencies, creating strains that eventually broke the currency peg.
Fire could then be safely re-introduced to keep down the brush.
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To keep down price rises, and thus ease the political process, governments should employ a second tool: spending to help promising new technologies get to market.
The second principle, says Mr Cameron, should be to keep down the risk of a breach by using as little information as possible to achieve the task in hand.
To keep down expenses he relies on referrals, occasional visits to industry trade shows and LinkedIn, which he uses to blast periodic e-mails to a network of roughly 500 executives.
Third, to the extent that the fees push commuters to switch from cars to mass transit, they will spread subway and bus costs over more users, thus helping to keep down fare increases.
While states and colleges share responsibility to keep down the rising cost of college, improved consumer disclosures can ensure that students and families make wise decisions when investing in higher education.
Since fees are paid upfront by the government and repaid by students only if they get a decent job, to keep down costs to taxpayers admissions are determined by strict quotas.
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The government now wants doctors to keep down their costs (fees plus prescriptions) to a rise of 1.3% this year (the same as for hospitals), with penalties on those who overshoot.
John Francis and Lawrence Prittipaul advanced the score to 80 before Francis (19) failed to keep down a short ball from Tinu Yohannan and gloved a legside catch to wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra.
Judging by this week's meeting of farm ministers, governments are simply not ready to make the big cuts in support prices to keep down prospective food mountains and to prepare for enlargement.
The Democrats will tell us anything they think will justify what they really want, which is explosive taxes, spending, and deficits to keep down the short term political costs of all that spending.
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One reason it had the market to itself for so long was that indexing was extremely labor-intensive -- so much so that someone long ago suggested that convict labor be used to keep down costs.
Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientist, recently argued that one further generation of nuclear power stations is needed (in Britain at least) to buy time, in order to keep down emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, while new carbon-free non-nuclear technologies are developed.
But I tell you, we have managed to do what nobody thought was possible a year ago, and that is to keep unemployment down, to keep lots more businesses in being.
We've been able to keep inflation down and therefore keep the price regime down, mainly through monetary and fiscal management, but also through better efficiency of our productive sectors and the cooperation of the people, employers and government.
Bangladesh is one of the world's largest clothing exporters, but workers rights groups say factories cut corners on everything from safety to wages to keep costs down in order to attract orders.
This was partly due to patients wanting to maximise their chances of a quick pregnancy to keep costs down, and partly due to competition between doctors, keen to gain a reputation for good results.
He worked hard to keep costs down so that Wal-Mart could keep prices low so that the average working American could get the most out of the money they earned.
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That undershoot was largely due to lower-than-expected spending on social security payments, which departments cannot easily control (though the Secretary of State for Welfare and Pensions would say he has helped to keep unemployment down.) But ministers have also over-delivered when it comes to squeezing administrative budgets.
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