Restaurants lose money on them because consumers flood the restaurants, order very low priced meals, strain waiters and cooks, get lousy service, and never return.
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In order to make low calorie drinks taste better, soft drink makers led by Coke, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper Snapple are experimenting with natural, low calorie sweeteners and flavor enhancers.
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In order to keep currency low, they need to continually buy up our debt.
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Amazon has kept prices low in order to boost demand for its Kindle, which dominates the e-reader market but faces stiff competition from Sony and others.
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Farmers were frequently not paid the full world price for their crops, because governments were determined to keep local prices low in order to relieve hard-pressed consumers.
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China is playing its own currency game, trying to keep the yuan low in order to protect internal interests, but still it is having to react to the American moves.
Bernanke once again defended his policies, noting the best way to raise interest rates is, paradoxically, to keep them low in order to support stronger economic growth, and that QE aids this process.
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The civil-service unions are equally clever in arguing that the abuses stem from the pay structure: the ministries like to keep basic pay rates low in order to minimise their pension contributions and other social charges.
In a peculiarly American way, the cabin-fee issue has therefore turned into a sort of morality play in which these people argue that the government should keep their rents low in order to prevent something even worse: the prospect that public lands might become solely a province of the rich.
But in order to hold interest rates low, the Fed must increase the money supply, which leads to inflation.
Or, to modernize it, selling the printer at a low price in order to profit on the toner or ink .
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Previously, egged on by local governments, they had charged industrial users very high prices for electricity in order to charge householders very low ones.
The recession in Spain is serious, and the company has been forced to reduce prices on 4500 items in order to be competitive with low margin retailers.
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Council tax has important advantages as a local tax, and should be retained, but reformed, in order to help people on low incomes and to reduce the impact of revaluation.
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As the cost of his imported products -- Idaho potatoes, beef and onions -- has recently risen with the weaker yen, he has absorbed the increases in order to keep his prices low.
The reason HTSs have not taken hold is that brittle ceramics are incredibly tricky to spin into flexible wires, principally because their crystals need to be perfectly aligned in order for resistance to remain low.
Gems level up and their requirements increase as they grow in power, so an intelligence based skill such as Cold Ring will have to stay at a low level in order to be usable by a strength heavy character, but technically all classes have all skills open to them .
The team in Antarctica now will have a particular mindset in order to cope with the low temperatures, and also the cabin fever, which may be an issue if a really bad patch of weather sets in and they are forced to stay inside the caboose for a long amount of time.
"The aircraft had to be able to land and take off in 125 meters, it also had to have a very low noise output and the aircraft needed to be able to accelerate rapidly up to 350 mph in order to get point to point at low level very quickly, " said Avcen managing director Mike Dacre.
Retailers claim the act will let them fill 90-day prescriptions for the same low price as mail order, a bonanza for patients.
Cendant's board is already talking about awarding itself a new slug of share options at the current low share price in order to retain key managers.
In order to encourage the participation of low-income communities, 150 schoolpacks containing 10 Global Water Kits and a School Resource Kit were sent free to over 30 countries.
On Urdu-language TV news channels Dawn News and Geo News, it was very low in the running order this morning, and it is absent altogether from Urdu-language newspapers.
Foreign governments risk overheating and asset bubbles in their economies if they maintain inappropriately low interest rates in order to keep their currencies undervalued vs. the U.S. dollar.
Credit its relentless price-slashing and its build-to-order business model, which keeps inventories low.
Another notion: Using barcodes so refrigerators can automatically order milk and cheese when they run low or get close to their expiration date.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that government and manufacturers would split the pot equally in order to build a domestic industry of low-carbon transport.
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Where individual idea recognition and information gathering is not valued, top-down corporations give members an incentive to hide information and dissemble in order to keep the bar for performance low.
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Shares of this soon-to-be-independent company seem likely to be a classic opportunity to buy low during bad times in order to, hopefully, sell higher later on, when times are better and everybody loves educational publishing.
The Liberal Democrats called on the Welsh Government to invest in energy efficiency schemes that will also help reduce fuel poverty whilst the Conservatives argued for more support to businesses in order to maximise the opportunities of a low carbon economy.
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