That there was even a world's most expensive bagel demonstrates how many most-expensive products can coexist so long as categories are defined narrowly.

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If goods are so expensive, how do the poor manage?

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There's no doubt that smartphone accessories can get expensive, so how about a case that doubles as a gamepad?

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The core of why XP remains so popular is how difficult and expensive Microsoft makes it to upgrade, the Vista debacle (which proved XP was just fine, thank you) and the incredibly lightweight justification Microsoft offers as to why upgrading makes sense.

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Because gold is expensive so people thought about how to use less of it.

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"There's a few key issues that keep coming up and one is the issue of fallen stock, so how to deal with our dead animals and that's something that's quite expensive, so that's one of the areas I'm bringing to the executive on Thursday, " she said.

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This is an expensive device, so instead they discussed how to spend some hundred yuan on a shanzhai handset.

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He had Donnelley's artists put the findings in a brochure and offered all his directory customers (phone companies and so on) free seminars on how to sell the expensive ads to small businesses.

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He had Donnelley artists put the findings in a fancy brochure and offered all his directory customers (phone companies and so on) free seminars on how to sell the expensive ads to small businesses.

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Fighting it, though, can be expensive, so it is easy enough to imagine how most of these requests go.

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