The Bush administration is also worried that families who can afford private health insurance will switch to S-CHIP if it's available because it's cheaper.
That's not cheap, but it's cheaper, in a way, than drugstore.com angel Amazon -- which doesn't have any earnings.
No doubt some will buy into HD DVD because it's cheaper, but most will see it as a generic version.
Indeed, some couples, when faced with the ruinous financial consequences of divorce during a downturn, may decide it's cheaper to seek counseling and give it another go.
Its DC motor means there's no regenerative braking, but he claims it's cheaper and allows owners to rewind the armature or upgrade the brushes.
It's cheaper to buy an oven dinner than the separate ingredients, it's not a good diet, but people think at least they have food.
While the industry has seen huge growth in the U.S., it has all been on land, where it's cheaper to install and service a turbine.
It's cheaper than its peers at 8.1 times trailing earnings and 4 times what I think it should earn in 2013.
Its oceanfront acreage, compared with the mainland's, goes for less than half the price, and a mile or two inland, it's cheaper still.
One early discovery: It's cheaper and easier to pump in the seawater during high tide.
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As for the cost of scanning, Vachon says it's cheaper to catch a disease early.
At 12 times putative 2004 earnings it's cheaper than Deere at 14 times, and CNH Global at 18 times.
It will start only if acquirers think it's cheaper to buy than make.
Compared with the competition, Oshkosh is run more profitably and it's cheaper (and will continue to be less expensive in the future).
"The fundamental question being posed this holiday season is if it's cheaper, faster and more convenient to shop online, " says Andersen's Robert Mann.
Still, it's cheaper for hardware makers to support one standard, and 1394's main champions, Apple and Sony, lack the clout of USB's backers.
"It's cheaper to come to our festival than to go to a movie anywhere" in Los Angeles, said Stephanie Allain, the director of the festival.
It's cheaper, and, as the company points out in ads, greener.
"Obviously it's cheaper to keep the cows on grazed grass, but once winter comes and they're all in, they'll be on full winter rations, " he said.
To exploit the power of modern high-speed locomotives, engineers resort to tilting trains and special track free of sharp bends: it's cheaper than tearing up the existing rails and starting again.
If it's cheaper to control methane by fixing a pig farm than by squeezing the last gram of pollution out of a German chemical factory, let the factory pay the pig farmer to control methane.
The advantages of shooting and distributing films digitally are many: The cameras themselves cost about half as much, editing is easier and instantaneous, and it's cheaper for the studios to distribute them to theaters large and small.
If these guys cost that much money just by living on the streets, it's cheaper to take them off the street, give them an apartment and assign a full time caseworker to make sure they get back on their medication, back on their feet, help them get a job.
In his latest book, tech pundit Nicholas Carr put a name on a trend that's transforming information technology: As the world becomes more networked, he points out, computing power is undergoing "the Big Switch, " moving off of desktops and into massive data centers, where it's cheaper and more efficient.
"It's money, " says van Eeden, who notes that it's mainly cheaper jewelry bought by younger consumers that is the stuff for show.
It's not as glamorous as open elections for board seats, but it's a lot cheaper.
"It's a lot cheaper for the Army to buy stuff that's already been developed than to develop it on our own, " McCarthy said.
Many researchers believe that it's actually cheaper, in our fast-food society, to eat a high-fat, high-calorie diet than it is to stay slim.
In some areas, you can save money by running appliances when other people aren't using much electricity since it's relatively cheaper to give that power to you.
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