The converse: A retailer whose profits are disappointing but whose gross margin has narrowed may be a bargain.
"This turns out to be a bargain for the public in terms of cost versus the benefits, " he said.
Her mock Tudor house looked sound and seemed to be a bargain.
Merck fell more than 25% on the news, and gurus bought what they hope to be a bargain with a yield north of 4.5%.
And if you put any credence in the idea that a stock is cheap if its Price-Earnings-to-Growth ratio (PEG) is less than 1.0, then Netflix could be a bargain.
And if the market price history of the past 11 years repeats itself, which technical odds suggest will be the case, this dip in gold prices will eventually prove to be a bargain-hunting buying opportunity.
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Assuming both want to stay relevant five years hence, 3Par looks like it will be a bargain for whichever firm wins this bidding war and likely there will be some incredibly long and tense meetings in the conference rooms of the firm that loses.
On the other hand, a great Sancerre can be a comparative bargain, costing a fraction of the price of a grand cru white Burgundy.
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The parties agreed the royalty should be determined based on a hypothetical bargain that would have been struck between a willing licensor and a willing licensee, but they disagreed on whether the royalty should be based on a 1982 bargain or a 2002 bargain.
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And compared to other industrialized countries, U.S. cellfone users might be getting a bargain.
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However, putting those rate declines into context shows they might not be such a bargain after all.
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But he was willing to do that because he believed that the greater good would be served by a compromise with Republican leaders in the Senate and the House, and the economy would be served by a bargain -- a grand bargain last summer that would have locked in the kind of long-term deficit reduction that would be beneficial for the country.
Early discussions on Capitol Hill suggest that, in a wide-ranging deal, a carbon tax might be part of a grand bargain to settle Taxmageddon.
Survey participants who see higher prices said gold was caught up in the mass move to sell all assets and that the cheaper prices will be a lure to bargain hunters.
And, unfortunately, throughout that process, whenever the possibility of a grand bargain seemed in the offing, a grand bargain that had to be balanced in nature -- because every bipartisan group that looked at this and every reasonable economist who looked at this agreed that a solution had to be balanced in nature.
That may yet turn out to be a short-lived bargain at the taxpayer's expense.
The high demand for U.S. dollars at the ECB auction Wednesday appeared to be more a case of bargain-hunting than of panic.
Justice Jacobsen sided with the plaintiff and found that the royalties should be based on a 1982 bargain, but said that the timing had little impact on the royalty award.
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Chances for a "grand bargain" appear to be hanging by a thread.
Could be that someone else wants to go much more and that a mutually agreeable bargain can be struck: this is known as selling the ticket to someone for less than they think it is worth but more than you do.
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Optimists hope that their expiry in 2012 will allow a grand bargain to be agreed before then: the lower tax rates could be kept in exchange for a plan to stabilise the federal debt as a share of GDP by closing loopholes and cutting spending.
Is there a bargain to be had now, or should I wait for back-to-school Ultrabooks to come out?
If councils were allowed to tax such developments and keep the proceeds (as they are in other developed countries), then a bargain could be struck, with local people offered better services in return for hosting a noisy new road or an unsightly sewage works.
You might find a bargain, but be careful not to get caught up in the bidding frenzy.
Marriages could always be arranged, it was always a bargain, a deal.
The good news for patient, long-term investors today is that the highest- quality companies can be purchased at bargain prices, a rare occurrence.
And their findings were crucial to the outcome because in Georgia, as in many other states, a plea bargain cannot be accepted without corroborating evidence.
So will there be an effort to jumpstart a grand bargain-type series of talks with Republicans in the coming weeks or months to achieve just that?
If we grant that the Iranian leadership would at least be theoretically amenable to such a Grand Bargain, it seems to me that the biggest holdup concerns the security guarantees.
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