And experience shows that higher-yielding (or lower-quality) loans are more likely to be drawn.
For the president to be successful, he will have to come clean with the American people about the tradeoffs, and he will have to explain why those tradeoffs are necessary even as many Americans fear that they will have to pay more taxes or get lower quality health care in return.
These new varieties grow with smaller amounts of water or with lower-quality water, such as recycled water or water high in natural mineral salts.
"Less competition for licensees means less pressure to offer higher quality or lower prices to attract business, " the report says.
Most growth stocks currently sell at 15 times earnings or lower, which is price quality territory.
Portfolio manager Thomas Soviero looks for companies that issue lower-quality debt or those with leveraged balance sheets.
It might mean staying in the biggest cities but plumping for lower-quality assets, or moving into the best locations in secondary cities.
As higher-yielding bonds mature, investors wanting to reinvest into fixed-income will have to choose between lower-yielding bonds or bonds with worse credit quality.
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To attain similar effects, a school has to either lower tuition by 3.8 percent or increase the quality of its education by recruiting higher-quality faculty, who are paid 5 percent more than their average peers in the academic labor market.
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He wants Samsung to be known as a company that makes electronics goods of the same, or similar, quality to Sony's but at a lower price.
The dangers come down to basics, engineers said: the lack of body reinforcements, lower-quality steel in car bodies, weaker or fewer weld spots to hold the vehicles together and car platforms designed decades before modern safety advances.
People with heart failure often have a lower quality of life than arthritis, chronic lung disease or angina sufferers.
Additionally lower-quality debt securities involve greater risk of default or price changes due to potential changes in the credit quality of the issuer.
As the Journal noted this week, the Japanese auto makers now face a run for their money in America because other manufacturers offer comparable or better quality and features for a similar, but not necessarily lower, price.
Or do they just produce the same quality of teachers, except at lower wages with less job, health, and other workplace protections?
Rather, Miron expects that current users would take advantage of the lower prices to either use more or use the same but buy higher quality product.
The first grade is lower quality merchandise, which Li said tends to be distributed domestically or exported to other developing markets in Africa and Latin America.
One nice aspect of iTunes Match is that even if your songs are in a lower-quality format before they go into your iTunes Match locker, Apple streams or downloads them in a relatively high-quality format.
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The auctioneer explains that higher prices would drive the sector to increase supply and offer competitive prices for high-grade cuts such as those used for a fillet mignon or a New York strip, at the same time giving domestic consumers good availability of lower-quality, but still superb, meat.
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