To do so, they say, is a predatory practice that exploits writers.
For some it signals a commitment to attachment parenting, for others it is an environmental issue, and for still others it is a protest against the predatory marketing practices of the big formula companies.
n If a company cuts prices, it is guilty of predatory practices.
It is a reference to short-term, predatory, free-market practices by outsiders.
It seems like every day we're fighting discrimination whether it's through predatory lending practices, stop and frisk policies, parent PLUS student loan denials, the War on Drugs program, voter suppression efforts, multiple school closings, among countless other issues.
There is no greater predatory practice on our youth than the ROTC.
Once monopoly was achieved through predatory practices, the lack of competition allowed the survivor to charge customers and pay workers whatever it liked.
Another has been allowing predatory practices, like usurious interest rates by payday loan companies that make it difficult to impossible for people to get ahead.
"But what we have done is sanction predatory practices that are driving prices up".
The Transportation Department, cheered on by Alfred Kahn, the architect of airline deregulation in the Carter Administration, is apparently confident that the big carriers are using "predatory" practices to drive out upstarts and has proposed fines and other measures to curb such practices.
Such sales are a common practice among predatory lenders to get bad loans off their books and let the mortgage industry's scavengers worry about the payments.
