They would be asked to switch from paper to electronic medical records, to organize with other doctors to reduce medical complications and unnecessary costs, to try to arrive at a package price for a child with asthma or a man with kidney stones.
If you have been with a cable service company or an oil service company for more than a year, you will probably have discovered that, you either have to pay a higher price for the service package you get, or the same price but for a lesser package.
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He said that access to the government deal was not "automatic" and that any bank seeking a new package risked getting a far lower share price than when the offer was first made.
"We have secured an excellent rights package at a price which we believe reflects their value to our customers and which recognises the increasing attractiveness of this competition to our business, " said Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of BSkyB.
It's not easy to cram all that silicon into so small a package without affecting the retail price.
When the price of a television set or software package goes up, demand for it generally falls.
They determined that any service, whether it's booking a trip or sending a package, shares 85 common characteristics, including availability, price, reservation style and the ability to change or cancel a deal.
And with our new style language and price point and performance package we offer, we think we have a winner.
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In this case, Viacom set the price for a group of its most-popular channels above that of a package that bundled the bigger channels with little-watched outlets, say multiple people familiar with the situation.
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They provided the familiar price point, put it in a familiar looking plastic bottle, but made it just a little smaller giving consumers less liquid while allowing them to raise price on the 2 liter package.
And Chinese stocks all through the steel industry, from iron ore to finished goods, which were built up in the expectation of a bigger stimulus package than has yet materialised, are now being run down, amplifying the downward price swing.
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