retentions

Never use the term retentions, it makes reps go on the defensive and they will treat you like you're fishing for deals.

How To Negotiate What You Want From Sprint Retentions - The Consumerist 2007

We had an average rate decreased of less than 1% and it was offset by an average 1% increased in self-insured retentions, which is the important attachment point where risk shifts from our client stuffs.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

In 2001 when I got there, the kidnappings were called retentions or fiscal evasions.

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We had strong profit retentions adding to our capital base during ' 08.

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These are called so because they are offered outside the human body, by which they alter and vary its maladies, [they are] the air, food and drink, sleep and awakeness, movement or exercise and rest, evacuations and retentions, passions of the mind [los accidentes o pasiones del ánimo].

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Climate and geographical location, food and drink, patterns of sleeping and waking, the retentions and evacuations of the body, motion and rest, and one's emotional state were all taken into account when explaining and curing sickness.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Cook County has a LONG ballot with judicial retentions, so they were very efficient.

Tell Us Your Voting Stories 2009

Some of them were Republican retentions that year, where the incumbents fended off challengers who are trying again this year.

NC-08 2009

Some of them were Republican retentions that year, where the incumbents fended off challengers who are trying again this year.

IL-10 2009

Some of them were Republican retentions that year, where the incumbents fended off challengers who are trying again this year.

WI-08 2009