As the Xbox gets cheaper and cheaper, some very cool things are happening there.
So banks have been fighting one another on price, offering cheaper and cheaper credit to the most credit-worthy customers.
The world is aging and demanding more medicine at cheaper and cheaper prices.
They want the gas to remain in the U.S. to provide cheaper electricity and cheaper feedstock for making chemicals and plastics.
And Lipitor is being hurt by copycat versions of its old rival, Merck 's Zocor, which will get cheaper and cheaper due to competition among generic drug makers.
But thoroughgoing Keynesian that he is, Sumner fears falling prices as a killer of consumption despite a history of goods becoming cheaper and cheaper in terms of dollars.
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And Lipitor is being hurt by copycat versions of its old rival, Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor, which will get cheaper and cheaper due to competition among generic drug makers.
Ahmanson was most famously known for Home Savings of America, and there he provided financing to those eager to own homes made increasingly accessible by entrepreneurs who figured out ways to build them in greater and greater numbers at costs that were cheaper and cheaper.
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The telephone through the computer and now fibreoptic networks have made arbitrage faster and cheaper and thus more profitable.
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They mean cheaper gas fill-ups, the survival of the airline and travel industry, and eventually cheaper materials and transportation costs embedded into every consumer and industrial product in early 2009.
The leaders are hoping for progress on issues like increased Internet access, "welfare to work" incentives for the long-term unemployed, cutting red tape, and progress towards a single EU financial market, which would mean cheaper borrowing for firms, better returns for savers and cheaper insurance policies.
For the right fund, an NTF fee is cheaper for the sponsor than advertising, and cheaper for the investor than going through a broker.
GPUs can be 100x faster and 10x cheaper and do it with less power and less space, he added.
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Recent rumours have suggested Apple is working on a new television set, a wearable "smart watch" device, and both cheaper and larger-screened iPhones.
H.264 makes video cheaper to package into physical media like BluRay disks and cheaper to send over the Internet via services like Hulu.
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He is concerned that companies will drop their welfare-to-work hires when the economy slumps and workers become cheaper and more plentiful.
The head, though, has to accept that it has advantages, for standardised products save time, reduce confusion, and may be cheaper and more predictable, especially when attached to a trusted brand.
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With electronic storage and fiber connections getting better and cheaper, EDS and EMC are working on the ultimate in redundant computing: networks that will "mirror" databases up to the latest transaction thousands of miles away.
Then to cut costs, they have to use cheaper grade components, like they do in the desktop and laptop market with cheaper grade this and that to cut costs and the MTBF is such that they are throw away products that people will be unhappy with.
People might as well move to Nevada or Texas, where housing and everything else is cheaper and there's no income tax.
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Digital tools make product design and manufacturing easier, cheaper and more flexible.
Consequently, junk food and fast food is cheaper and more accessible.
As international links improve and network equipment becomes cheaper and more effective, it will not be difficult to provide a low-cost mobile-broadband service, says Vodafone's Mr Colao.
The well-off, the artistic, the bored, the adventurous went abroad. (The broad masses went too, as empires, steamships and railways made travel cheaper and easier.) Foreignness was a means of escape physical, psychological and moral.
According to Huckabee's reckoning, his plan will promote capital investment in the U.S. and make domestic goods cheaper and more competitive overseas because their prices will no longer be inflated by the payment of corporate taxes.
"The rise in the number of businesses in recent years shows that a recession can be an excellent time to start a business, " he states in his report, adding that "factors of production such as premises and labour can be cheaper and higher quality, meaning that return on investment can be greater".
And at a time when a weak UK housing market is contributing to our economic malaise, a further tightening of credit conditions would be regarded as highly unwelcome by the Treasury - and it would go against the grain of government and Bank-of-England policy, in the form of their Funding for Lending scheme to provide more and cheaper loans to households and businesses.
One of these, the Broker Price Opinion, or BPO, is popular with lenders and banks because they are cheaper and faster than a full appraisal.
Consumers still use DVDs today, but in fewer and fewer homes because streaming by Amazon, Comcast, Hulu and Netflix is faster, cheaper and more convenient than going out to buy or rent a disc.
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