Recent rule changes by the Department for Education have made it harder for parents to get a school's permission to take their children out of class during term time, and so to avoid higher prices in peak season.
But even that hasn't satisfied the demand from customers eager to heat their homes with wood as a way to avoid higher prices for oil and natural gas this winter.
Buying the stamps right away saved them money, and if they bought enough of them they could avoid higher prices for a considerable period of time.
So while we were mostly able to avoid higher prices the day after Sandy, the reality is that under this week's extreme conditions, raising the price is the only sustainable way to maximize the number of rides and minimize the number of people stranded – by providing a meaningful incentive for drivers to come out in undesirable conditions.
Chained CPI accounts for the way consumers avoid higher prices by substituting purchases.
Balderton's thinking is evidenced by the fact that it invested in Lovefilm which will benefit from film fans avoiding high prices at cinemas.
If avoiding higher prices is the primary justification for "guest-workers", saying so would at least make the proposal more credible than the circular economic logic the Bush administration currently cites.Chris HansenShorewood, WisconsinGoing for goldSIR – So gold has an "enduring capacity to disappoint" ("The little yellow god", December 3rd).
Ms. Williams, who is from Melbourne, Australia, came under the grip of a vicious tennis obsession last year, abruptly quit her job as a receptionist and started using her $23,000 in savings to travel the world following the big tennis tournaments cheaply, staying in hostels and avoiding high-price stadium food and premium tickets.
EnerNOC dominates this field in the U.S. The company pays the owners of commercial and industrial buildings to let it periodically reduce their power consumption when the grid is overburdened, or to avoid high electricity prices.
In a grid-connected operation, a microgrid intelligent control and management system can be programmed to minimize the operating cost of a microgrid, typically by shaving the peak demand to avoid high electricity prices during peak hours.
