The companies backed off and have been offering much lower incentives.

Toyota, by contrast, has been far more profitable despite lower incentives.

Moreover, women have lower incentives for stability since benefits of secondary jobs are less.

Tanase's article noted that Japanese insurance companies, compared to their American counterparts, have much lower incentives to avoid full legal compensation.

At the same time, Toyota, Honda Motor and Nissan Motor are all gaining in market share with far lower incentives.

That compared with $941 a vehicle from the Japanese brands in 2003, which have lower incentives for a variety of reasons, including better quality reputations and favorable exchange rates.

Several Explanations Offered They cited several possible explanations for the sluggish market, including fewer sales to commercial fleets, higher prices on many models and lower incentives.

And while the Big Three have pushed a price war to the brink - it's hard to go far beyond zero percent financing - companies like Honda maintain sales with far lower incentives and have more flexibility to lower prices.

Lower incentives are also offered on the LeBaron Highline coupe, Eagle Premier LX, Premier ES, Premier LTD and the New Yorker Landau with the Mark Cross Edition package.

Incentive costs are quite high for General Motors, the Ford Motor Company and the Chrysler Group and put them at a disadvantage against foreign competitors like Toyota and Honda, which have maintained sales with far lower incentives because of better quality rankings.

The companies backed off and have been offering much lower incentives.

Toyota, by contrast, has been far more profitable despite lower incentives.

Moreover, women have lower incentives for stability since benefits of secondary jobs are less.

Tanase's article noted that Japanese insurance companies, compared to their American counterparts, have much lower incentives to avoid full legal compensation.

At the same time, Toyota, Honda Motor and Nissan Motor are all gaining in market share with far lower incentives.

That compared with $941 a vehicle from the Japanese brands in 2003, which have lower incentives for a variety of reasons, including better quality reputations and favorable exchange rates.

Several Explanations Offered They cited several possible explanations for the sluggish market, including fewer sales to commercial fleets, higher prices on many models and lower incentives.

And while the Big Three have pushed a price war to the brink - it's hard to go far beyond zero percent financing - companies like Honda maintain sales with far lower incentives and have more flexibility to lower prices.

Lower incentives are also offered on the LeBaron Highline coupe, Eagle Premier LX, Premier ES, Premier LTD and the New Yorker Landau with the Mark Cross Edition package.

Incentive costs are quite high for General Motors, the Ford Motor Company and the Chrysler Group and put them at a disadvantage against foreign competitors like Toyota and Honda, which have maintained sales with far lower incentives because of better quality rankings.

Whatever you have done has not been from base motives.

The Vessel claimed to be act- ing out of base motives.

And a man in such a state of guilt might be sensitive to allegations that he was acting from base motives.

Some of these struggles have been inspired by base motives - desires to appropriate art to a national or a political cause.

The principals have been blaming each other for the delay and speculating about base motives.

"Are you ascribing base motives to me, my love?"

"Even though you say it from base motives.

Those circumstances concern base motives, criminal aims or cruel ways of committing the crime.

It's more effective to appeal to only baser motives - fear and greed."

Still, the administration would like you to think that Mr. Clarke had base motives in writing his book.

His characters aren't much more than the sum of their basest motives and their worst behavior.

His indisputable bravery and honor inoculate him against charges of base motives.

Where aesthetic considerations are paramount and base motives are unknown."

She thinks he wants some embroidery done, not realizing he has baser motives.

But the fighting is mostly spurred by baser motives, including territorial control, revenge and criminality.

And he practices a profession, let us remember, in which base motives are more frequently encountered than fine motives."

Frequently he insults his opponents by accusing them of stupidity, dishonesty, or other base motives.

"You attribute the basest motives to me, inspector.

They impute wrong motives, base motives, to the backslider.

Politicians tend to act from baser motives, of which the strongest of all is an instinct for their own survival.

Another base motives are all other motives that are on the lowest level, detestable and despicable.

Base and not so base motives co-exist - the whole situation is such a mess there is no need for straw-manning.

The law mentions three examples for base motives, all else fall under the catchall clause of "another base motive":

But the play, which opened yesterday at the Hudson Guild Theater, takes a sardonic view of its characters' basest motives.

"From the basest motives!"