"It's not a cheap thing to bring about, and the tobacco settlement would have provided some of the resources that were needed for that, " Reischauer said.

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Investing in good European parliamentary contacts, is, moreover, a relatively cheap thing for a lobbyist to do.

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"If I pick up a badge and it's just a cheap, flimsy thing, I just know the sound system and meals aren't going to be as good, " says Mr. McKain.

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Seems awfully volatile, but when one looks at some other fundamental investment yardsticks, Chevron begins to look like a good company at a cheap price, the sort of thing YCharts aims to ferret out.

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Still the idea of cheap dining in Greece is a thing of the past.

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"Housing first" was comparatively cheap, for one thing: a homeless shelter might look squalid, but it cost a great deal to operate -- more, oftentimes, than a proper apartment with kitchen and bath.

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Rumours went around earlier this week that the fruity firm was getting a cheap mobile ready for market, but marketing chief Phil Schiller told a Chinese newspaper that Apple was doing no such thing.

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The cheap fossil fuels on which that system relies are a thing of the past.

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So a funny thing happened to the GeoSpring on the way from the cheap Chinese factory to the expensive Kentucky factory: The material cost went down.

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Pakistani traders were selling cheap costume jewellery, and the fever of the local women for these baubles was a thing to behold.

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