Industry sources insist the delays at Subaru have been unnecessary, driven not by the lack of dumping alternatives but by Modern Continental's fear that it would lose big money at the contract rate.
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Yet that increase wasn't big enough to signal that investors have abandoned hope of a reduction in the overnight bank-loan rate, since it's still 15 basis points below the current three-month contract rate.
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Sims of The National Geographic said that the National Geographic Society had broached the idea of negotiating a contract rate with the Postal Service, such as the Society does with foreign postal services like England's Royal Mail.
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At $ 125 an hour, they have an incentive to do a lot of unnecessary work to make up for their unrealistic contract rates, and they have a motivation to milk fees out of the system before settling.
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DAT also provides the industry's only real-time truckload freight rate service, DAT RateView, based on $ 28 billion of transactions annually from actual " broker-buy " rates ( what freight brokers pay carriers ) and shipper-to-carrier contract rates.
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CONTRACT RATE ON 30-YEAR, FIXED-RATE CONVENTIONAL HOME MORTGAGE COMMITMENTS Federal funds effective rate Average majority prime rate charged by banks on short-term loans to business, quoted on an investment basis ( Jan . 1995 through July, 2006 );
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It also negotiates health-care fees and provides access to a national network of preferred provider organizations, or PPOs, that offers medical services at contract rates, according to its S-1 registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.
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In addition, the Commission interpreted the Act to allow contract rate making without regulatory review, and opened the field for transport brokers who could manage better match ups between the demand for transport services and the availability of carriers.
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State officials are seeking contract rates of 5 to 5 1 / 2 cents a kilowatt-hour, but state Senate President Pro Tem John Burton told the Sacramento Bee that power producers " didn't come in with that kind of offer ."
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In addition, DeNucci's report charges that the Correction Department had, without any supporting documentation to justify the hike, increased the contract rate by $ 95 a month, to $ 674, giving EMSA an extra $ 241, 000 in " unsupported additional charges ."
