When employers are calculating the prevailing wage for these workers, they suddenly become low skilled workers.
The remaining 52 units would become low-temperature heat, usually disposed of as waste into adjacent rivers or the air.
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The core reason was depressed US gas prices - that have become low margin at best - negative plays over full cycle economics at worst.
Growth in the West simply had become extremely low, or in Europe, on balance, non-existent.
They lack the specialists, up-to-the-minute knowledge about cutting-edge science, and the scale to become the low-cost player in the industry.
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Childbirth has become a low-risk endeavor and old folks live long enough to have a heart attack in their 80s.
In each of the past eight years, worldwide demand for silver has been met only by running down reserves, which have become very low.
Recall that a Keynesian liquidity trap occurs at the point when interest rates become so low that cash balances are passively held regardless of their size.
And while the extra water from the melting glacier may be increasing the fertility of adjacent lowland areas in the short-term, water supplies would become critically low if it disappears.
In addition, the number of first or second generations European immigrants living in the US has become very low as compared to those originating from other parts of the world.
Still, there is the potential that scientists could one day determine the right mix of calories and nutrients to promote better sleep, which could become a low-cost strategy to curb obesity and heart disease.
Haryana, benefiting from its proximity to New Delhi, had become a preferred low-cost destination for the back offices of global companies.
Selling cars has become such a low-margin business that dealers see remote diagnostics as a way to keep customers coming back.
"Because these girls and boys do not have access to education, they become trapped in low-skilled, low-income jobs, which further push them into the vicious cycle of inter-generational poverty, " he said.
Yet others may have become complacent with the low expectations the voting public had of their government services.
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The meeting of European finance ministers has become a theatre of low expectations.
Founded in 1949 as a maker of basketball shoes in Kobe, Japan, Asics's sales are smaller than a global heavyweights like Nike, and it has become increasingly reliant on low-cost manufacturing partners in other parts of Asia to compete.
Founded in 1949 as a maker of basketball shoes in Kobe, Japan, Asics's sales are smaller than global heavyweights like Nike, Adidas, and Puma, and it has become increasingly reliant on low-cost manufacturing partners in other parts of Asia to compete.
For good or ill, the home of everyday low prices has become America's biggest political football.
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And that while RIM will surely keep growing, it may cede the high-end of the smartphone market and become a mid- to low-end player.
While the Las Vegas market has become saturated and led to low profitability, Singapore continues to battle slow economic growth and tighter administrative restrictions on gambling.
Forty years later, Southwest has become America's largest low-cost carrier.
Cash deals in California have become more common in the low-tier housing market, according to First Tuesday, probably due in part to the greater difficulty borrowers have had in getting a mortgage.
Detroit prices have been in decline for more than three years, yet based on the NAHB index, Motown's homes have become less affordable over the past year as incomes have dropped due to job loss, and because the low-end market has become so unappealing to buyers that it's been more or less abandoned.
As I've reported from Greece it is "anomic" - that is, there is a tendency for societies to become listless, lawless, with low level social conflict and breakdown.
The grocery business has become a highly competitive one with low margins compressed even further due to competition from Wal-Mart and other large format stores that siphon price-conscious shoppers away from traditional grocers.
But with consumers so used to paying so little, retailers and apparel manufacturers are reluctant to raise prices and have become even more eager to find low-cost countries to produce their goods in, economists say.
Some of the most frightening forecasts in the report centre on the increasing pace of coastal erosion expected to accompany climate change, as sea levels continue to rise and low-lying shores become more vulnerable to storm surges.
"Lion Air does have the ambition to become the world's leading low-cost carrier, but the concern is that those narrow bodies are not a good fit for Indonesia, " said Ahmad Maghfur Usman, an analyst for RHB Research Institute who is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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