In North America the assembly lines are busy, but cheap imports push down prices.
Interest rates were at record lows until the recent jump, but cheap money has also failed to stimulate growth.
But cheap tech and global labor pools will disaggregate many industries, too.
What is most surprising is how many paintings Duveen sold that turned out not to be masterpieces at all, but cheap imitations.
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Cut development expenses to zero, switch to dated but cheap technology, under-depreciate, change pension fund assumptions, bleed non-executive salaries and defer benefits etc.
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But cheap storage and computing resources are now available in the cloud, so analysing Big Data is no longer such a financial challenge.
But cheap housing and social grants haven't sated demand for education and work opportunities that could offer a pathway to more self-determined advances.
But cheap, plentiful fuel (both indigenous and imported) may lead to an increase in overall energy use, worries Kevin Anderson of Manchester University.
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Some studies measure it as the inability to buy anything but cheap food, or mere uncertainty about where the next meal is coming from.
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"Some of the services we provide are not cheap but they are not cheap anywhere in the world, " she said.
Nuclear power stations are hugely expensive to build but very cheap to run.
In fact, the classifieds sections of local papers across the country began to fill up with new, unused but very cheap Hoovers.
But being cheap is making a comeback, especially with voters who have to make their own sacrifices in the face of a struggling economy.
Vanguard's supermarket in Shenzhen has 350 staff, and 500 other people promoting not just expensive electronics, but also cheap items like toothpaste and shampoo.
They may see 3G handsets not as expensive phones, but as cheap computers, with which they can call up scores, prices and even crime reports.
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But for cheap generics, which have already had their prices whittled down by cut-rate competition, sometimes there is only so much more Express Scripts can cut.
In a nutshell, generic drugs which are off patent that are costly to produce, but usually cheap to purchase, are generally the medications in short supply.
Other solutions are more complex, but still cheap, such as injecting a sugary mixture into a water supply contaminated by hexavalent chromium to make it less toxic and less mobile underground.
But that cheap dollar policy actually only discourages the investment in America essential to getting the economy booming, as investors fear lower returns from a declining dollar, inflation, and the boom and bust cycles that such policies cause.
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There's a much-needed place in this country for golf courses that maybe aren't quite up to snuff, but are cheap, easy and fun to play for everyday Joes who don't fancy having to whale out of sand traps every other hole or being looked at funny when they wear sneakers.
Also, young companies are often starved for cash and have no choice but to go cheap.
But what will cheap solar do to lower emissions in the important transportation sector?
Maybe we couldn't buy many luxury goods, but food was cheap and no one went hungry.
Digital filmmaking is taking off as a cheap but high-quality alternative to movies printed on expensive film.
The kids quickly catch onsome games resemble jacks, marbles, tiddlywinks, but played with cheap, colorful plastic characters.
But both look cheap compared with consumer-service companies like McDonald's, which sells at 28 times forecast earnings.
The kids quickly catch on some games resemble jacks, marbles, tiddlywinks, but played with cheap, colorful plastic characters.
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