Prices are at wholesale levels or below, and one says she had heard she could get things cheap for her grocery shop.
Undeterred, I started a list of resources where I could learn more about free and cheap attractions, things to do, and restaurants in any town, large or small.
"Early on the U.S. trailed way behind Europe in making these things cheap because the federal government got so caught up in regulating cell phones, " says TIME business editor William Saporito.
They would much prefer to see the power of government employed to keep out those lovely cheap and wonderful things made by Johnny Foreigner and thus push people into purchasing things made by themselves.
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You go on eBay and you'll see very, very cheap prices on things that, you know, you know at a sneaker boutique, either New York or L.A., you know, you pay hundreds of dollars for it.
Now, everything you want you generally can have because manufactured things are cheap.
The first and second parts of a move are the easiest to predict, as shorts are trapped and things looks cheap.
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From what I can tell, these things are not cheap.
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Of course, things are usually cheap for a reason.
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Competition between multiple people making things very cheaply makes them cheap to buy.
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Wearable technology is also booming, thanks to cheap sensors that can be used to track things like movement and heart rates.
He is opportunistic and buys things when he thinks they are cheap and will sell them when they increase in value to pursue other new activities.
And for the UK, that wealth isn't going to come from digging things out of the ground or competing on cheap labour.
If you must own a producer of these things, you should at least aim for a cheap one.
For many investors, however, consumer staples stocks may be appealing now because they are cheap, and they will remain that way as they do things like experiment with new products at multiple price points and compete in new markets abroad.
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Unfortunately, we don't have any word on specs or pricing yet, but these things had better be packing some serious heat for cheap if Palm is really planning to wait until September to launch them -- they'll be going head-to-head with the Xoom, the PlayBook, and presumably the iPad 2.
One of things the market does have going for itself is a cheap valuation.
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The two things I look at are earnings yield, which is how cheap is the company.
From a man who had used it to create a "smart" cat feeder able to recognise each of his cats and give them the correct amount of food, to quadcopters used to transport things from one African village to another, access to a cheap microcontroller was creating a buzz in the maker community, he said.
"When somebody makes a cheap, reusable launch vehicle that can get up to orbit, all sorts of things will change, " Carmack says.
Bit traffic on the Internet keeps doubling every 100 days, even now, because of things like, to use a mundane example, new chips that enable cheap digital cameras.
Apart from cheap and bulky items such as garden rakes, Mr Bezos thinks he can sell most things.
Two things to note: everything produced on those robot lines is going to become amazingly cheap too.
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Cheap, abundant, varied and delicious, festival food carts supply a delicious selection of all things fried, grilled and glutinous.
Purists point to many giant breweries' use of "adjuncts, " a kind of "beer helper" of syrups and unmalted (meaning ungerminated) grains like rice and corn that, among other things, thins the brew's body and boosts its alcohol level on the cheap.
Other good things about netball are that it is a non-contact sport, and it is cheap, requiring only goals and a ball.
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All these things have in common the fact that they don't weigh very much and are cheap to move, even over very long distances.
Several things had helped, among them Elizabeth David's explorations of French and Italian cooking, cheap holidays abroad and the rise of a new middle class which had more money, and less sangfroid, than before.
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