Avoiding promotions helped keep gross margins, which measure profit as a percentage of sales, steady at 39percentt.
We heard from readers taking pay cuts, avoiding promotions or considering giving up work in order to keep within the pay threshold, set at £40,000 in London and £31,000 outside.
But union officials said some veteran officers are so put off by the pressure of command now that they are doing what once would have been virtually unthinkable, avoiding promotions.
GC: We've avoided promotion in most of its forms simply because we have a strong antipathy towards advertising and marketing.
A&F has avoided promotions and steep markdowns, and has typically sold its clothing at about 70% of full price, which is higher than the comparable figure at many apparel retailers.
Certainly he never changed in avoiding self-promotion.
Having a well-preserved inner layer is very important for tissue remodeling in the vascular field since this avoids the promotion of early thrombi and the molecular signaling of the ECM can promote the re-endothelialization.
And you have to avoid social promotion.
He left in 1969 to avoid a promotion that meant a transfer to Rochester.
