These models are lower-cost product offerings designed to meet the needs of basic users.
Others are suppliers which find themselves without work when their clients turn to lower-cost manufacturers abroad.
For their part, brand-name and generic drugmakers argue the deals actually hasten lower-cost generics to market.
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At the same time, Americans get lower-cost consumer technologies that enable them to innovate and create.
Game developers have started looking at iOS and Android as viable and lower-cost platforms.
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The second step involves linking residents with lower-cost insurance plans via a state-regulated entity called the Connector.
The Law of Infinite and Zero ordained that the Web would emerge as a lower-cost sales channel.
You can bet that this lower-cost service will be charged to the consumer in a few years.
Quite frankly, indexing is a smarter, lower-cost way of investing and a great way to improve retirement plans.
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And we have to balance the costs against the risk that purchasers will turn to other, lower-cost countries.
Companies are obviously going to prefer the lower-cost or no-cost option when the end result is the same.
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The biggest is whether or not to allow lower-cost drugs to be imported from Canada and other countries.
Koch plans to unite its petroleum engineers with Purina's scientists to come up with high- quality, lower-cost blends.
Well, since then HP has released Sleekbooks under its mid-range Envy brand, and also its lower-cost Pavilion line.
All these places have a massive amount of high-density condos that are either vacant or converted into lower-cost rentals.
Entrepreneurs, your opportunity is to help these changes happen by creating lower-cost alternatives for customers and sharing the savings.
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As with 401(k)s, lower-cost, off-the-shelf defined-benefit plans have started to hit the market.
Price separations subsided as lower-cost units ramped up to replace the lost supply.
Rather, farmers choose them because they are easier to manage, demand less weeding and take lower-cost, less toxic herbicides.
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Such a provider can even disrupt its own hospitals and specialist physicians by using lower-cost caregivers and venues of care.
Companies like MinuteClinic, which employ nurse-practitioners in pharmacy chains, threaten to disrupt physicians' practices with convenient lower-cost care for consumers.
Durand joined the company in January 1995 just as Lupron was facing fierce competition, from Zeneca's Zoladex, a lower-cost rival.
Health Insurance Innovations' focus is fixed-term, 12- or six-month medical-insurance plans, lower-cost alternatives to traditional insurance plans, which are renewable.
Middle-market firms, on the other hand, may have to scale back their operations or risk losing business to lower-cost competitors.
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One way to offset the new expense is to negotiate with vendors for lower-cost ingredients and packaging, such as pizza boxes.
They point out that America's manufacturing base has been cut down by years of competition from China and other lower-cost countries.
The companies that lose out may well be lower-cost producers, since such agreements are dictated more by politics than by economics.
We live in a world where new lower-cost form factors like mobile have brought the whole world online, and into scope.
In past forecasts, we found that interactive budgets grew because of marketing experiments, or firms looking for lower-cost alternatives to traditional media.
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