And although it has convincingly shown itself able to confound the efforts of retailers to avoid easy and direct price comparisons, it has a harder time dealing with what their suppliers do.
Unfortunately, the stock price is easy for executives to manipulate, sometimes over long periods of time.
But that security seems to come at the price of easy legibility for humans.
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Knowledge of the selling price is easy to find, and, truth be told, there's not that much variance within neighborhoods and home types.
Jobs had a vision of how those rights could be bundled up and sold to consumers at a single, easy-to-understand price of 99 cents a song.
These direct providers are able to combat many concerns through price transparency, easy access and lower costs as they establish what is basically a menu of cash only services.
You see, as we discussed HERE and HERE , while easy money policies always put price inflation in play, though economically debilitating, it is of relatively minor import.
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So it is easy to rank air tickets by price.
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Some news, such as unemployment figures and the consumer price index, is relatively easy to distribute in numerical terms.
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All this makes it easy to see how a property-price bubble can develop.
Easy's earnings are vulnerable to price swings because it doesn't hedge fuel costs.
While foreign investors consider it onerous, many still invest in the U.S. because of its clear legal system and a transparent property market, where price and performance data is easy to obtain.
And we also targeted that space by making our products extremely easy to deploy, and offer a price point that allows the mid-tier enterprises to afford Wi-Fi coverage everywhere in their establishment.
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It was an easy place to spend cash because the share price was high.
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Where Jango, or its equivalents, work, comparison shopping will become so easy that it will no doubt trigger a price war, driving prices down to commodity levels.
Here lies Goodluck Jonathan, he made Nigerians pay the right price for fuel and made life easy for everybody by making it known the only birthday present he would accept was a hat.
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It is a small price to pay for a quick and easy way to check whether, for instance, water is too briny for irrigation.
Without easy access to information, farmers cannot know what price is fair for their goods, traders have no alternative to buying imports from local sources, doctors rely on ancient technology, voters can make no informed choices.
Similarly, a low price tells us that people are finding it easy to reduce emissions.
At its best, shopping online is easy, fun and offers greater choice at a lower price.
In other words, we appear to have forgotten that no big thing in life is easy or simple, and that nothing comes without a price.
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With more than 17% of Amylin shares sold short as of May 10, Kliff believes that a huge short squeeze is in the works, with "an easy ten points" added to Amylin's share price in the coming weeks or months.
Quick and easy access to films and television programming at a low monthly price, in one centralized website.
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This is important as, looking ahead, we expect macroeconomic developments to feed through to a marked rally in the gold price and, with plenty of room for the gold:silver ratio to contract, particularly if memories of uncomfortable investor losses in silver during 2011 continue to fade, it is easy to see decent scope for sizable gains in the silver price this year.
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Also, getting Facebook shares at the IPO price from a broker isn't expected to be easy, say industry participants.
Economic theory does suggest rising inflationary price pressures are the result of monetary policies that are too easy.
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"It's the easy way out, " Panetta said, adding that there is a price to be paid for such an approach.
You might say if I decide to turn on the oil spigot overnight to pay the debt, because the oil field is so big, it would send the oil price shooting down, and so it might not be so easy to repay the debt.
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