Varney says his strategy predates the recession and offers a new, not just cheap, way to have fun.
The rest are just cheap--and likely to stay that way as long as their underlying businesses continue to meander along.
"If I pick up a badge and it's just a cheap, flimsy thing, I just know the sound system and meals aren't going to be as good, " says Mr. McKain.
WSJ: Conventional Wisdom: Nametags Say a Whole Lot About You
Think the ukulele is just a cheap, plastic toy to be played under a palm tree?
China is no longer just a cheap source of textile and apparel factory labor but a target market.
Just being cheap, that is not good enough in today's fierce competitive market.
Plenty of others didn't, saying this would be just a cheap distraction on which to play mediocre Android games.
Theres a lot more to buying capacity than just a cheap price, says Ronald Harden, a vice president at Williams fiber subsidiary.
Now you can borrow money just as cheap even from your friend, Chuck, and you don't have to hedge any foreign currency risk.
Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai, two investors with a penchant for finding mispriced options, reckoned that credit-default swaps on mortgage-backed bonds were just too cheap a trade to pass up.
ECONOMIST: A handful of outsiders come out of the crisis in credit
Called Made in America, Again, it focused on China and concluded that by 2015 it will be just as cheap for companies to produce goods with a high labour content in the US as it is in China.
FORBES: Rick Santorum's Pushing at an Open Door on Manufacturing
Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.
Ironically, the more pared-down cameras might be fine for older, more patient users who just need a cheap way to take pictures for websites or e-mails.
Of course, just because something is cheap doesn't mean it's a good investment.
China is no longer just a source of cheap labour, says Ms Xu.
Finally, just because stocks look cheap, relative to record-low yielding Treasury bonds, does not make them cheap in any absolute sense.
Land is cheap: just east of Reno lies the vast desert wilderness.
Low Disruption is the path favored--though not always--by entrepreneurs who nimbly figure out before their established competitors do just how to harness cheap tech and global resources.
Then as now, it is naive to assume that Chinese consumers will buy what you make just because it is cheap, and foolish to treat the vast country with its differences in income, climate and tastes as a single, giant market.
ECONOMIST: Entrepreneurship in Shanghai: Mandarin mogul | The
According to Mr Krebs, who has blogged extensively about the various kit used by criminals in the US to target cash machines - they can skim the data contained on that magnetic strip just by using a cheap MP3 player - although more complex software is then required to decode it.
Yet, somehow, the financial markets have decided that they have done just that in providing these cheap three-year loans.
Are our bodies now just vessels for jokes or cheap provocations?
Doctors do have an incentive to see these patients, even at a low payout, because they've already met their fixed costs--just like an airline selling cheap tickets right before the plane takes off.
Employers--and the Medicare system, which is gearing up to cover 35 million elderly people in 2006--will have to decide whether to pay a big premium to lower cholesterol by a few extra points, or just push most people toward cheap generics.
应用推荐