We think luxury means much more than impressive facilities or expensive price tags luxury is found in the exceptional service and outstanding experiences you find at a Five-Star hotel, restaurant or spa.
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If you're eager to make the move to OS 5 but have resisted because the devices seem expensive, price competition should start pushing prices ever downward in the coming months.
Expensive labor has made core foodstuffs more expensive and governmental price controls have just induced a lower production on the whole.
Fuel cells are still expensive but that price will come down too.
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The Treasury plans to make the new coins from nickel-plated steel instead of the alloy, which has become more expensive as the price of copper has risen in recent years.
He says that Japanese managers tend to be extremely conservative with their accounting--particularly with depreciation and amortization of goodwill--and this makes some companies appear to be expensive on a price-to-earnings basis.
The government thinks that expensive bandwidth is a price worth paying in order to pursue all these worthy goals.
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The stock also looks relatively less expensive according to the price-to-sales, price-to-cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and enterprise multiples.
Since the price of expensive homes, particularly in once-fizzy markets such as California, is falling fastest, the Case-Shiller measure probably paints the more accurate picture.
The chip relied on a form of memory that would have made putting the processor in a computer too expensive to compete on price with older Pentiums.
This marginal reasoning explains why Kuwait, which is renowned for its oil reserves, still has imports at some point, the marginal cost of domestic production is more expensive than the world price.
Totaling 30 rooms including eight bedrooms, 10 baths, two libraries, and formal and informal dining rooms, it was the most expensive co-op price ever paid in the U.S. at the time.
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The biggest solar thermal plant ever built is in the Mojave Desert of California and generates 80 megawatts. (The biggest single photovoltaic installation produces 12 megawatts.) Solar thermal power prices range from 11 cents to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, making it more expensive than natural gas generation at its lowest price, around 7 cents, but less expensive during peak hours.
And absent a price on carbon, biomass-based chemicals and fuels need to be less expensive than existing products, not at price parity.
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To make it more expensive than the pure market price would leave it at.
Because at this point, those cars are much more expensive than the average-price car.
The stocks in our table are also expensive when measured by their price-to-sales ratio (PSR).
At any given moment, the most expensive resource determines the overall price of all the electricity purchased.
Eighteen months ago he was having trouble making three of his more expensive models at an affordable price.
The alternative, though, is no more attractive, for expensive energy is the likely price of meeting green goals.
Netflix has the scale to make it difficult for new entrants given low price points and expensive content costs.
In the end, we paid something like half price for some very expensive furniture.
And oil looks expensive mainly because of the plunging price of gas.
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Apple, as Shilling highlights, is another company that has thrived in a tough economy, partially by offering lower price alternatives to more expensive products.
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Whole Foods Market ( WFM) has been one of those rare, extraordinary investments that kept on giving long after its share price looked way too expensive.
"We have just started the commercial aspect of this product but the price is not that expensive when you compare it with the long term solution that it gives, " he adds.
Some people have even suggested that antibiotics need to be far more expensive - something more like the price of new cancer drugs - in order for them to be used appropriately.
The worries about rapid price growth look especially founded in more expensive markets such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego that have witnessed double-digit price gains over the past year.
The initial purchase price of LED lights is expensive when compared to other types of bulbs.
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