Some critics argue that growing exports are one reason supplies shrank in California, though refinery executives say strong foreign sales guarantee that refineries will keep operating at high capacity, improving efficiency and keeping costs down.
"We always ask for a last-minute meeting to actually fine tune the reserve". Both Sotheby's and Christie's continue to use guarantees to attract desirable property to their sales, guaranteeing the seller an agreed-upon price whether or not the work sells at the auction.
The main reason for this is that book companies need a certain number of sales guaranteed.
Large advance sales guaranteed a considerable run; by the start of November, it had paid back its advance, and closed after 358 performances, paying a small profit to RCA.
The city and the county reduced ticket-sale guarantees to the Raiders by $174 million after March 30.
Words like crisis, war, famine, genocide become comparable to discount, best, sale, guaranteed, and lose all meaning, glazing over us as we stare intently at the next set of flashy lights.
Minimum-sales guarantees in the contract could bring I.B.M. as much as $1 billion in revenue in the next three years, said Mike Azzi, an I.B.M. spokesman.
Mr. Mehta's Knopf has long held a distinct reputation for delivering both literary quality and runaway sales, which guarantees the attention of reviewers and booksellers for almost anything stamped with its venerable borzoi logo.
China Mobile, on the other hand, did not want to agree to Apple's sales volume guarantees.
Huge Christmas sales are guaranteed".
