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Business Definition for: Escalator Clause

  • a clause in a contract which allows for regular price increases for a product or service to cover projected cost increases

Additional Resources

Farmers Ask Congress for ``Energy Escalator Clause'' in Farm Bill
WASHINGTON -- American Farm Bureau Federation AFBF delegates are asking Congress to extend the provisions of the 2002 farm bill with an emphasis on an "Energy Escalator Clause" due to the impact higher fuel and fertilizer costs are having on farm profitability.
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-02-07
Fidelity and Guaranty Life Introduces Loyalty Rewards Escalator
BALTIMORE -- Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance Company, part of the Old Mutual Financial Network OMFN has taken one of its best-selling products and made it even better. Loyalty Rewards Escalator builds on the tremendous success of the Loyalty Rewards Series, including the popular Account Value Escalator.
Tags: Fidelity Investments
Research articles 2005-04-05
Santa Comes Early This Year in Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Video Game Inspired by the Upcoming "The Santa Clause 3" Film Available for Game Boy Advance
Tags: The Walt Disney Co.
Research articles 2006-11-01
Industry loses on AIDS clause: Congress OKs disabilities bill protecting food-handling jobs of HIV-infected workers - restaurant industry
Industry loses on AIDS clause
Tags: food, industry, job, U.S. Congress, worker
Research articles 1990-07-23
Schindler Elevator Rolls out New FieldLink Hand-Held PC; Latest Technology Now In Palm Of Technicians' Hands
MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- Schindler Elevator Corporation has rolled out a dynamic new hand-held computer, the Schindler FieldLinkTM for elevator and escalator service. The Schindler FieldLink is the newest technology in the Schindler SENSER, Schindler Elevator Network for Service Excellence, maintenance program. This advanced device places the technology to set new...
Tags: Palm Inc.
Research articles 2004-10-08
Nordstrom's $40 Million Makeover is Designed to Boost Static Bottom Line.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Feb. 19--Pianist Donald Werth doesn't play as many Cole Porter tunes beneath the escalator of Tacoma Mall's Nordstrom store these days. Feb. 19--Pianist Donald Werth doesn't play as many Cole Porter tunes beneath the escalator of Tacoma Mall's Nordstrom store these days.
Tags: Nordstrom Inc.
Research articles 2000-02-22
Legal Focus on Property and General Liability Insurance
The sue and labor clause is clearly a subject of keen interest for organizations seeking to recover some or all of the cost of making Y2K repairs, and a major concern for insurance companies. This article will attempt to explain both sides of the Sue and Labor clause issue and...
Tags: Claim, Clause, Insurance, Y2K, Liability Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers 2000-01-01
Clear and cool: retrofitting a stadium with new escalators led to using a novel material.(escalators)
there's an old saying that you can't do only one thing. For the operators of the Amsterdam Arena in the Netherlands, the thing they wanted to do was add an escalator system to help speed spectators from the parking garage to the seating area. Before ...
Tags: Clear
Research articles 2006-01-01
Closing Contract Loopholes
What's the most important clause in a construction contract? In many cases, unfortunately, it's the clause that wasn't there when one needs it. The painful truth is that no contract is perfect, and even the most experienced builder sometimes gets burned by the unforeseen. But that works both ways: It...
Tags: Contract, Truth
White papers 2001-06-01
Producers laud Senate CBI bill with shoe clause. (Caribbean Basin Initiative, footwear tariffs)
Producers laud Senate CBI bill with shoe clause Producers laud Senate CBI bill with shoe clause
Tags: tariff, U.S. Senate
Research articles 1990-03-05
At-Will Employment Clause
This template for At-Will Employment Clause.
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Tools & templates
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds auto insurance clause
A step-down clause limiting auto insurance coverage for a nonfamily member driving an insured vehicle was upheld last week by a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Tags: insurance, U.S. Circuit Court
Research articles 2001-07-05
Escape clause. (Wide Angle).(DreamWorks gets a clause in its distribution deal to let it take its home video and foreign theatrical business from Universal Studios)(Brief Article)
* In anticipation of the sale of Universal Studios by Vivendi, DreamWorks has asked for and received a clause in its distribution pact that allows Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to take their home video and foreign theatrical * In anticipation of...
Tags: DreamWorks SKG, home video, Universal Studios
Research articles 2003-07-07
Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety. (People & Places).(Brief Article)
It invented the escalator emergency shut-off switch, which is now a construction-code requirement. It developed the foundation of today's ergonomics guidelines put out by NIOSH. It developed the only video measurement system of its kind to analyze It invented the escalator emergency shut-off...
Tags: Liberty Mutual Group
Research articles 2003-03-01
Lease Option Clause
This template is for Lease Option Clause.
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Tools & templates
Mitsubishi Electric and Schindler to Cooperate in Elevator/escalator Business
Business Editors and Technology Writers
Tags: Mitsubishi Corp.
Research articles 2000-04-27
Scope Clause Concerns Loom as Brit Air Takes on Bombardier CRJ700s
As Morlaix, France-based Brit Air takes on the first of 12 Bombardier CRJ700s, a possible scope clause being considered by parent Air France could hurt the regional's chances of becoming one of the first customers for the 86- seat CRJ900. The carrier has an order for four and options for...
Tags: Bombardier Inc.
Research articles 2001-02-16
Superstores forced to think outside big box; NY's low ceilings, columns, tight spaces pose costly challenges to prefab chains.(Real Estate)
Byline: judy temes When construction workers dug a five-foot-deep hole in the basement floor for what will be an escalator in the new home of Home Depot on West 23rd Street, they found a stream running underneath the Chelsea thoroughfare. Handl...
Tags: basement, dock, Home Depot Inc., real estate, retail company
Research articles 2004-01-05
Litigation. (Books and References).
Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co. (Tucson, AZ) has published Elevator and Escalator Accident Reconstruction and Litigation, a volume that is designed to assist attorneys decide whether to take or reject a case and to supply expertise for those who Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co. (Tucson,...
Tags: accident, Books, Elevator, litigation
Research articles 2002-09-30
CLAUSE PROVING A BATTLEGROUND.
STAMFORD, Conn.-Xerox Corp. is the latest in what is expected to be a growing number of corporations seeking coverage for Year 2000 remediation costs under the ``sue and labor'' clause in property insurance policies. Insurers contend,...
Tags: insurance company, policyholder, Xerox Corp., Y2K
Research articles 1999-07-26
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