At relatively low cost, Ford built dressier variations of Ford and sold them as Mercurys, and in large volume.

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The poverty indicator does not account for programmes that help the poor, such as the earned-income tax credit, nor does it adjust for regional variations in the cost of living.

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Apart from scooping up Daihatsu to get small-car engineering and engines years ago, Toyota has concentrated solely on improving its own offering, with a relentless focus on efficiency, cost-cutting and a flood of new variations of successful models brought to market at an increasingly rapid rate.

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The authors say banks, retailers, and restaurant chains set national pay levels but then allow regional variations to take into account recruitment rates and the local cost of living.

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