When tax money ends up in terrific parks and bicycle trails, again, taxpayers are happy--or at least willing--to pay for them.
We recently carried out a survey of in-house lawyers (the buyers of services from law firms) and found that more than two-thirds were willing to pay more for higher-value legal services if they could pay less for lower-value legal legwork.
"People on planes want full Internet access--not just e-mail--and they're willing to pay for it, " says Henry Harteveldt, travel analyst at Forrester Research.
Prime real-estate locations come back on the market, and tenant-hungry landlords are willing to pay more for tenant improvements and cut lower-cost lease deals.
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Studies in real-world commerce suggest that consumers are willing to pay a 3-10% premium for anonymity in transactions, but no more, says Mr Hughes.
Because the 17 governments that decided to adopt the euro will not - and maybe cannot - promise that their taxpayers are willing to pay the consequences.
Unfortunately for the Kremlin, Soviet farmers have, in part, balked at supplying their produce to Moscow center since local authorities and more free-market oriented entrepreneurs are willing to pay producers higher prices than those set by central authorities -- which have remained largely unchanged for over 15 years.
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The market is attractive to operators, partly because Japanese consumers have shown themselves more willing than Europeans to use - and pay more for - new services, such as always-on internet access and email.
What 2012 has proven is that there is a small group of people who are willing to pre-pay for games from high-quality developers with great track records, based on those track records.
Football games last about three hours -- longer than the actual flight -- and still passengers were willing to pay to watch a game they knew they wouldn't catch the end of.
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The formation of the new Big East represents the latest round of musical chairs known as realignment a football-driven escapade that has broken up long-standing rivalries and traditions as schools chase the multi-billion-dollar riches that television networks desperate for DVR-proof programming are now willing to pay.
It's a sign of the times when out-of-work footballers are willing to pay for the privilege of going on trial in the hope of winning a part-time contract.
Breaking down the UK-wide sample into sub-samples for smaller areas shows that where bills are relatively low - Scotland and Northern Ireland for example - respondents appear to be even more willing to pay a bit more.
If Doximity is to scale, it may need to pick a bigger target market or develop new products for which its doctor-members are willing to pay plenty.
In short, our team values are meant to reflect what a buyer would be willing to pay in an arms-length transaction and our operating income measures are meant to indicate how much cash is generated.
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It was willing to pay twenty-five million rubles, or more than eight hundred thousand dollars.
He would most likely wish to view the match in high-definition, and would be willing to pay extra for it.
To be sure, as a lengthy (if grossly imbalanced) report in the New York Times yesterday makes clear, the Administration has been willing to pay lip-service to the need for such protection whenever it became politically necessary to do so.
If the price of peace in Washington is cutting deals that will kick students off of financial aid, or get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood, or let insurance companies discriminate against people with preexisting conditions, or eliminate health care for millions who are on Medicaid -- people who are poor, or elderly, or disabled -- I'm not willing to pay that price.
We agreed on all the points, but the major issue was Sky was not willing to do a second pay-per-view in April.
No-frills Vanguard Group , the second-largest U.S. mutual fund company, is attracting a number of investors who are willing to pay for fee-based financial advice.
It's still a place where hopelessly urbanised weekenders and second-homers are willing to pay handsomely for rustic experiences, provided only too happily by locals whose other sources of income (such as whaling and potato farming) have long vanished.
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This year, a majority of Congress is willing to prevent a pay cut of 21% -- a pay cut that would undoubtedly force some doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients altogether.
When Coca-Cola, for instance, planned to take over a local Chinese soft drinks company a few years ago, Chinese hackers were discovered to have accessed top-secret memos on how much the Americans were willing to pay.
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And this is largely due to the fact that the NCAA realized that people were willing to pay premium prices to sit in nose-bleed seats of large stadiums for the mere privilege of being present during the Final Four.
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As this remains one of the more popular times for people to tune-in to local radio broadcasts, advertisers are typically willing to pay a premium for airtime during these hours.
Interest in things such as green products and healthy foods will continue to grow in a post-crisis world, but customers will be less willing to pay a premium for them, and will demand more value for money when they do.
"Investors are attracted to companies that are producing 30%-40% earnings growth per year and are willing to pay a high premium to participate in this kind of growth, " says Vineet Mishra, Southeast Asia head of equity capital markets at J.
How much T-Mobile would be willing to pay for MetroPCS is not clear.
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