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Just as peer-to-peer businesses like eBay allow anyone to become a retailer, sharing sites let individuals act as an ad hoc ( 临时的) taxi service, car-hire firm or boutique hotel (精品酒店) as and when it suits them.

H) Existing rental businesses are getting involved too

The danger is that although some rules need to be updated to protect consumers from harm, existing rental businesses will try to destroy competition

Large companies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new businesses.

Some businesses will benefit but the vast bulk of the savings will be captured by workers, not their employers

In the next couple of years the businesses that thrive will be those that are tight with costs, careful of debt, cautious with cash flow and extremely attentive to what customers want.

businesses and governments are already dealing with the impact this increase will have on everything from food and water to infrastructure (基础设施) and jobs.

They are owned by individuals and by private businesses and corporations, lending institutions, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government agencies at the local, state, and federal level.

A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.

Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy efficient, but still carry great cost.

Most urban Africans work for a small minority of the rich, who tend to be involved in either cronyish businesses or politics.

Schools, restaurants, and businesses closed, and more than 1, 000 flights were canceled.

Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.

Taxes are low, so many businesses have their headquarters here.

The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses rapid, long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.

There is another survey, sometimes referred to as the "payroll survey," that assesses 400000 businesses based on their reported payrolls.

it does not include all the businesses

And businesses shelved investment projects.

Why do consumers, businesses and investors retreat and panic in times of depression

Newspapers relay daily accounts of goal-setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street , yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-trumpeted practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis , and unethical （不道德的）behavior in general.

Businesses are less likely to succeed without setting realistic goals

Cooperation between the government and businesses.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

"This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product," said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

Access to foot traffic and proximity to transit allow the type of entertainment-oriented businesses such as bars and restaurants to stay open later, which attracts both younger, creative workers and baby boomers nearing retirement alike.

And those costs would vary depending on the size and scale of the businesses.

Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work.

Businesses in order to boost their profits hire employees as part-time workers only.

Here we have three of the most important problems facing small businesses that I want to look at today.

In addition to this, businesses would now be rewarded for successful efforts to cut food waste.

In France, the government has banned supermarkets from throwing away edible foods and imposed harsh penalties on businesses that fail to comply with the regulations.

Now, all of these problems involve significant costs for all businesses, but there're particularly challenging issues for small- and medium-sized enterprises.

One of the things that businesses and indeed government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.

So there may actually be a worsening of credit availability to small-and medium-sized businesses in the next year or so.

The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.

The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option.

The remaining 20 percent of the Palau seas will be reserved for local fishing by individuals and small-scale commercial fishing businesses with limited exports.

This generated little commerce for downtown businesses in the evenings, which made business and generating tax revenue for municipal upkeep difficult.

Welcome to the third lecture in our series on the future of small businesses in Europe.

While Maple Hill's conversion program is unusually hands on and comprehensive, it's just one of a growing number of businesses committed to slowly changing the way America farms.

Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.

Besides, businesses seek to appeal to customers' senses.

Further, Dallas arts and arts-based businesses produce $298 for every dollar the city spends on arts programming and facilities.

It provides awards for running new businesses.

Many businesses started up by college students have taken off thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation.

Modern businesses have been following his lead, with more tactics.

Summer company provides students with hands-on business training and awards of up to $3, 000 to start and run their own summer businesses.

They make businesses work better and they are a part of the corporate culture we live in.

When it comes to the selling of houses, businesses also use highly rewarding tactics.

DNA testing is also the latest rage among passionate genealogists—and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

If this doesn't change, American businesses, communities, and consumers will be the losers.

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them. 　

Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat .

Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses, with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and advertisers.

Researchers admit that their study does not answer the question of how much businesses ought to spend on CSR.

Retail trade groups praised the ruling, saying it levels the playing field for local and online businesses.

Some growth stems from a commitment by governments and farsighted businesses to fund cleaner energy sources.

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as "horeca": hotels, restaurants and cafes.

The demands follow comments made last week by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, who insisted the government could not force people to make healthy choices and promised to free businesses from public health regulations.

Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.

This could add value to their businesses in three ways.

Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

We need progressive policies that shape collective action and rein in polluting businesses, alongside engaged citizens pushing for change.