Equally important, many shoppers end up spending more than the face amount of the gift certificate.
The decision does not indicate what the face amount of the policy was.
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These businesses were merged with Gibraltar Life, earlier this year and allowed Prudential to expand its market share in terms of new business face amount from 7.3%, per-acquisition to 10.4%, post-acquisition.
Lazarus said doctors who treat Medicare patients face a significant amount of revenue loss.
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For consumers who face consistent decision paralysis because of the amount of choice they face everyday, Groupon Now acts as an extension of their brain to make decisions for them.
In the UK, Google, Starbucks and Amazon are among several large companies to face criticism over the amount of corporation tax they pay.
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Western media face limits in terms of the amount and the subjects that can be shown.
Under the mandate, refiners would have to use an increasing amount of biofuels or face fines.
The duties are set retroactively, meaning an exporter could face a sudden jump in the amount owed a year or two after making a shipment.
Six-figure salaries, lifetime tenure, and the opportunity to retire at full pay did not look inadequate to the elected officials, who make the same amount as judges and must face ordinary voters.
Jamie LeFrak, principal at the LeFrak Organization, says face rents, or the quoted rental amount before incentives, at the bottom of the market were down about 10% in New York, and effective rents, the amount after certain incentives, were down 20%.
The tough measures amount to a sharp about-face for the conservative government of Mr. Rajoy, who had previously rejected some of the same austerity policies Spain's partners in the European Union urged him to adopt.
Yet as things stand, our impotence in the face of our extinction means that a vast amount of medical resources are expended in the last few weeks of people's lives purely in order to render our deaths insensible and insensate.
Did he calculate the tax based on the full face value of your purchase, or the discounted amount you paid for it?
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In the calendar year of 2011, especially leading up to and through the fiscal cliff -- I mean, rather the debt ceiling negotiations, he spent an enormous amount of time with Republican leaders, face-to-face time, probably more than either of his immediate predecessors did in such a sustained, short period of time.
The bold-face names on our list also benefit from the large amount of time they spend in the public eye.
In the face of such developments, to say nothing of what amount to acts of war as sustained PRC government-linked hacker attacks on public and private sector computer networks, the Obama administration has maintained what can only be described as a cordially accommodating, business-as-usual approach to Beijing.
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This will clearly and obviously lower that e2 value, the amount of avoidance that anyone can do in the face of higher tax rates.
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Each unit of Terra currency would be charged each year a transaction fee of 3.5% to 4%, assessed against the face value of the currency, depreciating its backing by that amount.
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In the case of Brazil, firms appear to be confusing rising demand with rising inflation and, in the face of a record low unemployment rate, and a limited amount of qualified labor, hoard and overpay workers despite falling output.
High taxation on payrolls and a prohibitive amount of bureaucracy are just some of the hurdles that face any foreign company trying to break into the market.
School officials can also help engineer a culture of respect and gender equality, which is particularly important for girls because of the greater amount of sexual harassment and the resulting negative impact they face.
However, it is patently unreasonable for the U.S. government with a straight face to produce 200 TB of data, or 25 times the amount deemed relevant to the proceedings, thereby requiring a continuance of trial up to six weeks simply to return the relevant files to their native format.
Unless we missed the memo, it isn't like there are any 1080p broadcasts causing us to really wish we had that digital input for, and let's face it, how many STV devices exclusively feature DVI compared to the amount which use component, but may also feature DVI?
Mr. Cordasco, who referred to Facebook's debut as a "face-plant, " had advised one qualified investor who wanted to put a large amount in the stock not to buy on the first day of trading.
By contrast, people in poor countries face problems such as the speed and cost of an internet connection, let alone the huge amount of webpages thrown up by search engines.
But there's another reason for the public's fascination: "Let's face it, these are fabulously wealthy, gorgeous people and I think there is a certain amount of, 'Oh goody, something bad is happening to them, '" he says of the perverse delight the public takes.
The insecurity that seniors face or would face if Medicare were voucherized and the costs were shifted to them if they had a limited amount of money to spend on health care and the rest was up to them, I think would not be good for the country.
In theory this policy of buying and cancelling some of the debt would reduce Greece's indebtedness, because the market price of its bonds is a fraction of the amount originally borrowed: if the EFSF paid 50m euros for Greek bonds with a face value of 100m euros, and agreed that Greece should have an obligation to replay only the 50m euros, that would reduce Greece's indebtedness by 50m euros.
Councils face taxes for using landfill to deal with waste and fines if European Union targets to reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfill are not met.
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