Twenty-somethings jet in on low-cost airlines for the all-night club scene.
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.
Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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The danger is that today's woes will distract attention from a far bigger threat to Hyundai and, indeed, to South Korea as a whole: being squeezed between the high-tech Japan on one side and low-cost China on the other.
Many rely on higher-cost neighborhood check-cashing outlets and generally don't save much money as a result.
The Obamacare scheme was always dependent on low-cost consumers subsidizing the high cost ones.
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The manufacturing base in China was initially built on low-cost and lower-skill jobs, such as clothing and footwear.
Revenue, based on cost-per-impression or cost-per-click metrics, is split between Google and developers.
The focus has been on low-cost productivity improvements, rather than high-cost, big bets.
Ironically, decision makers in the U.S. have failed to appreciate the obvious fact that America cannot compete with China on low-cost manufacturing.
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In the early 1990s, when Pacific Andes began filleting operations in Qingdao's Shandong Province, the company realized that it could capitalize even further on low-cost labor in China.
The spike in prices in some PJM pricing zones probably resulted from reliance on higher-cost, quick-start generating units, which were used initially to replace the lost generating capacity.
So the company focused on low-cost, silicon-based storage systems.
Parker does not see much of an impact on low-cost carriers from the Open Skies Agreement, a treaty in effect since March that allows carriers to fly new routes into other countries.
My advice is to focus on low-cost options.
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Founded in 1949 as a maker of basketball shoes in Kobe, Japan, Asics's sales are smaller than a global heavyweights like Nike, and it has become increasingly reliant on low-cost manufacturing partners in other parts of Asia to compete.
Founded in 1949 as a maker of basketball shoes in Kobe, Japan, Asics's sales are smaller than global heavyweights like Nike, Adidas, and Puma, and it has become increasingly reliant on low-cost manufacturing partners in other parts of Asia to compete.
Add these costs to the human toll of people being turfed out of their homes, and it is no surprise that America's politicians are scrambling for ways to stem the foreclosures. (All the more so because hardest-hit areas include election swing states such as Ohio and Florida.) So far, the focus is on low-cost intervention: encouraging borrowers to seek counselling and lenders to show forbearance.
Nevertheless Gordon Brown, the new chancellor of the exchequer, ought to be concerned that no central figures seem to be kept on the overall cost of public-sector pensions, on how quickly it is rising and how cost-effective it is to pension off so many public servants.
Sponsors paid on a cost-per-click basis instead of the usual cost-per-thousand-visitors.
This highly integrated system-on-chip enables a cost-effective design for mid- to high-level infotainment systems and can scale to add the functionality of an external applications processor.
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Michael Corbat has taken over as chief executive for Vikram Pandit, who oversaw Ms. Stewart's hiring, and the third-largest U.S. bank by assets has embarked on a cost-cutting spree that will eliminate thousands of jobs.
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Fourth quarter 2011 operating expenses, excluding the cost of equipment sales, remained consistent sequentially and year-on-year as cost savings programs in 2011 helped control expense growth.
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After weeks without rugby, Thomas may want to forget an embarrassing moment against Munster on Saturday evening at Rodney Parade, when an off-the-ball tug on Donnacha Ryan cost Dragons scrum-half Wayne Evans a try.
"We will set a ceiling on cost - I think that's an essential part of good design being able to design within a cost, " said Mr Ferguson.
On the low-cost end, Asia-Pacific carrier Jetstar Group rents out iPads preloaded with content to passengers on some routes, too.
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They use this information to set the MSRP based on market demand rather than based on cost mark-ups.
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At the same time, there remains a significant focus on cost-cutting, Mr. Cudahy said.
The final leg of the journey was on a low-cost airline called EasyJet.
It seems that management wants to run a premium airline on a low-cost budget.
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