The Massachusetts penalty is only $295 per employee-year (as far as I can tell, it is business tax-deductible, which makes the $295 less than one-tenth of the federal penalty); it can be avoided by an employer that makes nominal contributions to its employees' premiums and induces enough employees to participate.
In the first round, United Teachers Los Angeles endorsed three current or former teachers, but provided only nominal contributions to each.
Mr. Ecker said the women had agreed to make a nominal contribution from their royalties to the writing program.
Traffic-induced water pollution contributed significantly to the water quality along the Rani Khola impact area as compared to nominal contribution along the Teesta area (Supplementary Tables S8 S10).
While the work itself is generally unpaid, all flights, accommodation, insurance and language lessons are covered, and there is also a (very nominal) contribution towards living expenses.
Their nominal contribution, along with the time donated by hundreds of volunteers, demonstrates the value the community places on the service.
They are briefing residents about the 15 one-room huts they will build in return for a nominal contribution of money and labour.
Likelihood ratio test shows that the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the complex without nominal signals have significant contribution to the overall genetic effect within the complex (P = 0.015).
Our analysis shows these two models are significantly different, suggesting the SNPs without nominal signals have a significant additional contribution to the overall genetic effect within the complex when IBD versus HC and its subtypes CD versus HC, and UC versus HC (P = 0.015, P = 0.003, and P = 0.023, respectively) are compared.
That may help maintain, or even grow, Alienware's customer base, but it still doesn't change the fact that Alienware's contribution to Dell will be nominal for years to come.
