From a fundamental perspective, there is a lot of cheap stuff out there.
They went to local computer stores and asked for deals on cheap stuff.
The cheap stuff has evolved so quickly and become so solid that the newest technology firms have built their businesses on it.
It runs the risk of feeling like all the cheap stuff you get on the back-end channels of digital cable.
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That means shipowners who wish to ply these waters will have to stop using bunker fuel (the cheap stuff left over once petrol, diesel and aviation fuel have been distilled from crude oil) to power their vessels because burning it produces too much sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and soot.
You can forget Acer's reputation for putting out cheap plastic stuff: the S7 is as nice to touch as it is to look at, and is easily the prettiest, most tactile laptop the company has ever made.
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The tricky part is to figure out what all this cheap, whizzy stuff will do to your cost and distribution model.
Although the company has created a sustainability index, it still sells a lot of cheap, unnecessary stuff at really low prices.
The Saudis have many decades-worth of oil left in the ground, and so have an incentive to keep the stuff cheap enough to ward off conservation or substitution.
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This makes us better off: we get stuff for cheap.
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Now there is free stuff to read with cheap computers.
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Instead, it would hit their arch rivals, the supermarkets, which have gradually persuaded drinkers to quaff cheap booze at home rather than expensive stuff at the bar. (Price isn't the only factor behind this change: home comforts from radiators to satellite TV have made British sitting rooms cosier places than they used to be).
It's too early to pick, and I'm too cheap and sort of a coward with this stuff.
The prime Google lesson is that clever use of cheap technology can trump ordinary use of pricey stuff.
TARP, cheap consumer lending, tax cuts, rebates and subsidies were intended to encourage people to buy more stuff.
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David Pritchard, an American academic and consultant who has studied both companies, says that Airbus must now send more basic work to cheap-labour countries in Asia with currencies tied to the dollar, keeping only high-added-value stuff and final assembly in Europe.
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