LinkedIn's core business is based today around recruitment ads and, to a lesser extent, premium subscriptions for users.
In other countries, increases in revenues have come from a mix of prepayment mechanisms that, in addition to general taxation, include earmarked taxes, value-added taxes, payroll deductions, and (to a lesser extent) household premium contributions.
For foreign physicians, the importance of more demand-related variables - such as hospital beds and presence of foreign population – as well as their stronger presence outside metropolitan areas, may be interpreted as a more pronounced dependency of foreign physicians on public sector employment opportunities, as well as a lesser access to premium locations.
While Obamacare stories often focus on the law's insurance premium impact, a lesser known provision of the law is starting to save some patients money and provide more choice in treatments.
He displays a sign warning customers about competing vendors who put premium labels on lesser-grade durians.
"Collusion doesn't apply to premium players but to lesser-tiered players," an agent said.
Consider also the pseudonym, a preemptive tactic adopted by authors who want to separate their lesser, or genre, works from their premium-label products.
There's no question that some people may face higher premiums for equal or lesser benefits than they have enjoyed in the past.
For instance, Jack Mann, who runs a $1 billion CBO at the Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C.-based buyout shop, says he can reap a hefty liquidity premium by buying smaller deals from lesser-known issuers.
