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Consumers are driving hard bargains on SUVs, forcing manufacturers to offer a record amount of incentives on vehicles and pushing down net price even further through assertive shopping.

Congress must not withhold incentives to rebuild from any employer that provides good jobs and tax revenue, if we want to revive the economy of this region, ... Contrary to the biased view of some, the gaming industry must be treated as fairly and equally as any other business when Congress develops legislation to help the Gulf Coast region rebuild.

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill, which removes any and all incentives for the food industry to improve

Considering that we spent more on marketing in the digital media sector and set aside 1.3 trillion won in incentives for our employees after scrapping stock options, our actual operating profit should be around 2.8 trillion won.

The new rules give listed companies more flexibility. The share incentives will stimulate the firms' efficiency and management.

It's not an unsubstantial task to file and issue a patent. That's typically above and beyond the rest of the workload so we do have incentives to take on that additional workload.

Economic-development incentives are the key to attracting quality businesses to your community.

Everyone goes through a stage where they want to leave home, ... Let the young people leave the community, but then hit them with incentives to return when they're ready to settle down.

Everybody is jumping on the bandwagon. These are new ways to watch television. It's very trendy and appeals to younger viewers. Will it replace traditional TV watching? No. But these are incentives that can deepen the relationship between the viewer and the TV show.

The big concern is that this provision creates tremendous incentives for states to further cut their caseloads, whether or not families get jobs or get help. The incentive is not to run a better employment program, but to cut off funding to needy families.

The big builders are marking down their outlooks for 2006 and rolling out some sales incentives -- the sort of things we see when the market starts to weaken on the demand side.

The basic salary will remain as it is for the present but will be brought down after a few tours if they are not performing. We will assess their performances after about three to four tours and increase the incentives accordingly. We have laid emphasis for winning matches and series.

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?

Taking into consideration the progress that has been made by the NRC in streamlining the licensing process, the significant increases we have seen in the price of fossil fuels, current and pending clean air regulations and the potential for financial and other incentives for nuclear generation that are provided in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, we believe the nuclear option is extremely competitive with other sources of generation.

It's consistent with our strategy of using targeted incentives when they make sense.

It's very low-paying and leads nowhere. So really you have no incentives to get there. You have no places to move from that job. So we see very low-quality personnel who turn over very rapidly.

It's very important to have incentives for our workers to return, and in order to do that, we have to have incentives for business to return,

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

They continue to lose market share. Incentives didn't seem to really help the situation here. You have to wonder if the incentives are really the right way to go.

They can combine market incentives with smart support for key strategic sectors, getting the best of both worlds. We should do the same.

They'll probably be below 30 percent for the month, ... Clearly, it's been more difficult than they expected, especially considering all the incentives GM has been offering to get market share.

There's the thought that if this is going to be so hot, why not price it higher? But if you do, maybe you lose volume and it doesn't stay hot as long, or you have to move to incentives and price cuts sooner, or you give a competitor a chance to enter the field sooner. The dealers certainly are making money. But the factory doesn't benefit from that.

The review is an opportunity (to) ... create the right balance of incentives for employers and employees and other parties in the supply chain to create safer workplaces.

There, that's informal incentives going on. We're seeing, incidentally, some of the 11th-graders talking to their 10th-grade friends.

This is a unique program that rewards farmers and ranchers who are model conservationists and provides incentives for other producers to meet those same high standards of environmental performance.

Their incentives hurt us. They caught all of us South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida off-guard.

The federal government is not a very well-managed enterprise. I don't think this is exactly shocking news. We don't have all the right incentives in place.

The Canary Islands offer special incentives to companies looking at potential filming locations, so it was only logical for me to help the local government make connections with major U.S. film studios like Universal, Fox, Sony, Disney, Paramount, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS, Viacom, Comcast, HBO, Netflix, Warner Brothers etc.

Incentives do work, up to a certain point, to give sort of a stimuli to sales and bring showroom traffic. It's just that you can't rely on incentives to bring people into the showroom day after day. It gives people a sense of urgency. You need to get this deal now because tomorrow, it's not going to be here.

Incentives devalue your product and confuse consumers and they create as many negatives as positives. Whether they stay off it this year is going to be a case of discipline.

Incentives are still going to pay a big role in the total value promise. We're still going to be creative and aggressive in the market.

In a perfect world, government wouldn't be in the job of offering incentives and partnerships. But in the world we live in, we recognize that businesses are going to make their decisions based on the bottom line." ()

If May was a temporary aberration, the big bubble of incentives may be over before they start. They may only last a month or two. If sales are really slowing down, consumers are going to see a lot more incentives in the coming months.

I'm willing to grant that public support for incentives is greater than it used to be, probably reflecting more concern,

In an era of heavy incentives and discounts, Residual Value excellence becomes more difficult to achieve, ... Both the segment and brand winners clearly demonstrate that quality products combined with effective pricing strategies will rise to the top of the charts.

I'm hopeful that the Big Three will be successful in moving away from incentives because that will stabilize things for all of us.

If used appropriately, incentives can make a big difference. If no incentives are provided, participation in a personal health-risk assessment may be less than 10 percent of the population. Employers that have offered significant incentives have seen participation as high as 90 percent.

If you allow those who are the most vocal and most antagonistic to get a meeting with the president for fear that publicity will hurt you if you don't, you're creating incentives for your critics to become even more antagonistic and more vocal. Then, you're forever stuck in: Will you or won't you meet? You'll no longer lead. You'll just wrestle with meetings.

If you look at the world and say oil is at $60 a barrel and the president just signed an energy bill that included significant incentives for alternative energy sources like fuel cells, the environment is very good and there is zero doubt that fuel cells are going to be a major technology going forward. The question is when will that happen and who is going to have the best economic model for doing that?

If you lose the development as a result, we continue to have 100 percent of zero (new revenue). Incentives are an investment on the communities' part, to offset some of the related cost to bring development and the jobs and the tax revenue that result from it.

If you consider that local and state governments have to operate balanced budgets, if $10 million is being committed to provide tax cuts and tax incentives to a particular business or industry, then that means $10 million is going to have to be cut from overall expenditures, or revenues are going to have to be enhanced in other areas to make up for the difference.

Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars and fuel? ... As chairman of the House Environment Committee, I heard from all sides of this debate. My conclusion: Incentives to reduce pollution are better than forcing motorists to live with a de facto car tax which won't make cleaner air.

Instead of the further help for the better-off that new incentives would provide, the government should phase in compulsory savings for employers and employees.

In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they could. Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.

In principle, stock-option grants, properly constructed, can be highly effective in aligning corporate officers' incentives with those of shareholders, ... Regrettably, the current accounting for options has created some perverse effects on the quality of corporate disclosures that, arguably, is further complicating the evaluation of earnings.

In theory, the boards should be using the Greenway book as part of their decision-making process, but the key word is 'voluntary.' It's a voluntary program, based on incentives and guidelines, rather than requirements and mandates.

In addition, the type and dollar amount of the incentives that the state, county and municipality collectively can bring to the table is often the determining factor as to whether a company picks your community.

Cities see this as a way to spur economic growth: on the one hand to put tools in the hands of the underprivileged and give them a leg up, and on the other to provide incentives to small businesses to locate in these cities and to expand their operations.

But I definitely don't think this is the right time to discuss this. Gambling is a very, very divisive issue. And right now we need to spend all our time reaching consensus on how to rebuild our infrastructure, bring our people back home and offer incentives to businesses to get them up and running.

Before we initiate a package or system of incentives and disincentives we also have to have a better way of counting graduation rates,

I don't know if it's a seasonal uplift so much as that dealer incentives have been more focused on trucks than cars.

Certainly those auto incentives were helpful in giving us that growth in the fourth quarter. But we have to remember that even outside of autos, the consumers have really hung in there. I don't think it's entirely a fluke. I don't think it accounts for the ongoing strength of the consumer.

By creating a true little village, there's tons of incentives to come in.

But you have to do it carefully, because if you put all the incentives on completion then you just encourage colleges to cherry pick the population ... There's already too much of that.

Honda clearly has a very loyal owner group; they're highly satisfied, they're not going to be swayed by incentives elsewhere.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans . . . as they compete for the best and brightest workforce.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

I do think we're still going to experience higher incentives in upcoming months, especially as the 2003 model year comes to a close. Inventories are pretty high at this point. Even with strong incentives, there's a few too many vehicles in the market for the number of consumers buying.

I'd rather see the state work with all employers to see if they can come up with incentives to spread the risk among a broader pool. This is a Band-Aid, arbitrary, firm-specific solution to one of the most important policy problems of the United States.

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

I am very impressed with the company's commitment to building a strong brand. I think all too many brands, especially in the food industry, have focused on price incentives at the expense of branding. It is refreshing to see Emerald invest for the long run.

Come the end of the month you might see some nice incentives for carriers who want current customers to extend their contracts.

Government has to embrace the concept of incentives in driving the market for the cleanest vehicles. Beating car buyers and commercial vehicle customers with tax penalties, while ignoring incentives, is absolutely counter-productive.

For the most part, passage of the DMCA has proven to be an achievement settling many complex liability issues up front and allowing the online businesses to grow. It was our hope that it would give creators incentives to make their products available on the Internet ... Sadly, this has not occurred to any great extent,

For the first time, the cost of the conservation and efficiency tax incentives exceeds the incentives for domestic oil production,

for the people, the infrastructure and, of course, the incentives played a role.

For our members, this is fantastic. There's some huge incentives here.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.

Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

You can't expect the insurance industry to do something out of the goodness of its heart. But you might be able to combine incentives ... and regulation in a way that still lets the market work.

The market had already factored in good numbers from the GDP data and there are few incentives to trade on now.

The key here for any innovation is that there has to be a level of consistency -- in terms of academics, in terms of incentives for venture capital, and in terms of new category development. Regardless of the administration, when you see areas of the country like Silicon Valley going through roller-coaster cycles, that's what's harmful.

These kinds of international conferences can be beneficial to the people in the country hosting them. It opens up the country to the outside world and such a spotlight of attention gives the government strong incentives to try to meet international standards, including on human rights.

These increases were in a sense artificially produced by shifting incentives as auto companies try to back away from incentives and instead lower sticker prices.

These incentives are coming because Boeing is bringing new revenue to Illinois that otherwise would not have been available,