In its annual session that just ended, the state Legislature was heavily embroiled in political infighting, and the consensus view of local critics was that it left the economy largely unaddressed, though it did pass an excise tax cut intended to reduce the " pyramiding " pass-along effects of that tax on wholesalers.
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With Hawaii's industry heavily dependent on tourism and tourist spending, the state regularly raises nearly half its government revenues through the imposition of the GET . Hawaii's GET has been criticized for having a disproportionate impact on low-income families because of the fact it is charged on intermediary transactions ( such as those between wholesaler and retailer ) as well as services, resulting in a pyramiding effect as costs rise in relation to final retail prices.
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P . Schuyler Miller declared the novel showed Lafferty " writing like the heir to'Cordwainer Smith', yet always completely himself-- more macabre, more cryptic, with more of the humor of the incongruous [ that ] Samuel R . Delany calls'ultraviolet'on the cover . " Alexei Panshin found " Past Master " " an eccentric, idiosyncratic minor masterpiece ", saying " it has all of Lafferty's usual color and pyramiding of manic invention " as well as offering " easily the most real immediate problem of spiritual agony yet seen in science fiction ".
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In his published work, Hippel considers it critical for market researchers to look for lead users, " users who are on the leading edge of each identified trend in terms of related new product and process and who expect to obtain a relatively high net benefit from solutions to those needs . " Pyramiding is a search process based upon the view that people with a strong interest in a topic or field tend to know people more expert than themselves . von Hippel states that it can sometimes be hard to identify lead users or the next CEO of any given company and pyramiding can assist in this process.
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In his published work, Hippel considers it critical for market researchers to look for lead users, " users who are on the leading edge of each identified trend in terms of related new product and process and who expect to obtain a relatively high net benefit from solutions to those needs . " Pyramiding is a search process based upon the view that people with a strong interest in a topic or field tend to know people more expert than themselves . von Hippel states that it can sometimes be hard to identify lead users or the next CEO of any given company and pyramiding can assist in this process.
