Including 20-year-old Smith, who has taken 11 wickets in nine first-class matches at a cost of 75 runs each, in the XI would represent a massive gamble by the home side.
The carrier, Jetstar Hong Kong, will be the first low-cost airline based in Hong Kong, according to Qantas.
In terms of accounting policies, firms using the last-in, first-out (LIFO) inventory cost valuation are more closely matching costs and prices in an inflationary environment.
The device is aimed at the growing number of cost-conscious and first-time buyers in Kenya who do not want to sacrifice device performance or user experience for cost.
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Over the last two years, the government has raised downpayment and mortgage requirements, imposed a property tax for the first time in Shanghai and Chongqing, increased construction of low-cost housing and enacted home-purchase restrictions in about 40 cities.
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Maybe they would like to be first in line for a low-cost loan, or at least to secure a spot ahead of subsidized Canadian competitors.
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Since opening its first American store in 1985, the low-cost furniture seller now counts 38 stores and has become the second biggest home furnishing company in the US, behind Ashley Furniture.
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Analysts at UBS, a bank, reckon that euro break-up could cost a peripheral country 40-50% of GDP in the first year, and a core country 20-25% (see article).
Like Mr Obama, Mr Reagan endured a savage recession early in his first term that crushed his approval ratings and cost his party seats in the mid-terms.
In other words, all the reasons which led it to set up its low-cost subsidiary Go in the first place still apply.
The growth in the cost of things like health-care insurance accelerated to 6.1% in the first three months of 2003, the highest rate since 1992, when costs were actually decelerating.
But it's a very live issue whether these governments should also be able to stop that money coming in in the first place - and if so, at what cost.
In a similar survey last summer by human-resources-consulting firm Mercer, Singapore surpassed Hong Kong for the first time in the cost of living.
Conversions are likely to catch on first in the fleet market, where what matters most is the long-term cost of keeping vehicles on the road.
His low-cost airline, Virgin America, celebrated its first year of flying in August, but Alaska Airlines recently filed a complaint that its rival is violating U.S. foreign ownership rules on domestic airlines and asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct a public inquiry.
Taken to the extreme, owners of clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City can attempt to overwhelm the opposition by assembling never-before-seen squads of immense cost (see first graph below) which results in unprecedented odds in their favor of winning the league title if they can get more of that talent on the pitch than the competition (see second graph below).
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The first stage in the cycle is that of factor-driven economies which focus on low-cost basic factor conditions, such as low-skilled labour, natural resources and geographic location.
Europe's so-called Emissions Trading System, first launched in 2008, was designed to raise the cost of polluting and discourage the production of greenhouse gases to protect the environment.
But until the manufacturing costs are offset by volume, it's an expensive ramp-up process: Yang (who grew up in Singapore) expects the first run to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and produce 200 to 500 microscopes.
Council staff employed in east Northamptonshire are to be offered a 1% pay rise - their first cost of living increase since 2009.
Canada's withdrawal comes ahead of a major convention in Bonn, Germany, "to carry out the first ever comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought", the UN Environment Programme said.
Utilizing OCZ's cutting-edge Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform (first introduced in the flagship Vertex 4 SSD series), Agility 4 SSDs offer a cost-effective alternative to other SATA III SSD solutions in the market making them ideal for mainstream entertainment, gaming, and mobile storage applications.
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The employment-cost index rose by just 2.1% in the year to the first quarter, the least since records began in 1982.
What they represent is a low cost opportunity to apply new solutions in the market before anyone else, enabling first-to-market advantage and enjoying the ability to increase strategic revenue streams or reduce operating expenditures.
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Applied Materials (nasdaq: AMAT - news - people ), are working to improve another thin-film technology that is extremely cheap but so inefficient it can't yet match First Solar in cost per kwh.
In France, rail operator SNCF is preparing for increased competition by launching the first ever low-cost, high speed train.
And Nigel Reo-Coker's hesitancy in front of goal, added to a wayward shot in the first half, cost England twice in the opposing box.
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Estimated first-year electricity cost before solar: These assumptions included base rates, fees and taxes, and factor in typical regional power loads, according to Heather Van Schoiack, spokeswoman at Clean Power Research.
King has stayed true to his characters -- which loyal fans will appreciate -- but at the cost of too much of the feistiness that made them fun in the first place.
First Solar, long the king of low-cost manufacturing, decided to gradually shut down its big factory in Germany and put on hold its plans to build new factories in Vietnam and Arizona.
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