This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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Manufacturers, in turn, are increasingly relying on their high-end sales to balance out their low-end products.
Charter schools routinely push out low-performing students, dumping them and their low test-scores back into the traditional public school system.
As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.
Just as with Apollo, any modern venture would need some kind of CSM element for the astronauts, together with a departure stage - a propulsion unit that could accelerate the astronauts' vehicle out of low-Earth orbit, putting it on a path to the Moon.
Naturally, HDR stills are also possible -- and it's not the first phone that has HDR video -- but the feature should offer up improved video capture, namely less washed-out skies and improved low-light video.
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Still, the 24-year-old right-hander gave up little to the Pirates on a day when he struck out a season-low four.
If these sectors can pump out low-cost, efficient energy, customers can be trusted to buy it.
Outsourcing has been so incredibly successful because it farms out low-level tasks to markets with plentiful cheap labor.
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That meant exacting more favorable terms from suppliers, throwing out low-margin brands and restocking his stores with Luxottica frames.
Houses once filled with single families are now rented out by low-income tenants.
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So investors will be pushed out of low-risk assets and into the stockmarket.
Washington has already figured out that low-fee index investing is in the best interest of its employees and the military.
Speculation has been rampant for months that Apple would soon roll out a low-cost iPhone aimed primarily at the emerging markets.
Instead, globally mobile manufacturers are likely to seek out alternative low-cost destinations.
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He also argues that the Romney campaign has a better plan than Republicans did four years ago for reaching out to low-intensity voters.
At the same time, IHOP has been weeding out low-performing franchisees.
To increase the odds of higher net returns, I like to seek out low-cost investment vehicles such as DFA funds, Vanguard index funds and ETFs.
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Struggling against high costs, it has lost out to low-cost rivals.
That is, today the company is rolling out a low-cost version of its intelligent virtual agent, affectionately-dubbed Sarah by some of the institutions that use it.
Apologists for and at the Fed add on that the purpose of low rates is to force investors out of low-yielding bonds into stocks that supposedly offer higher returns.
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They will soon bioengineer bacteria to melt oil out of tar sands, turn grass into diesel fuel and scavenge natural resources of every kind out of low-grade, thinly dispersed deposits.
Common to all hopeful theories about the mass affluent is the belief that they want to take their money out of low-yielding current accounts and put it into shares and mutual funds.
Starting in its days as an independent company, many have criticized it as a "content farm, " a website that cranks out low-quality content designed to game search engines like Google to get page views and sell advertising.
"The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor, " says Auret van Heerden, chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group funded partly by Western companies.
Coca-Cola points out in the video it offers 180 low- and no-calorie beverages out of more than 650 beverage products.
Quantitative easing and its low interest rate byproduct has increased the global carry-trade out of low yielding countries and into higher yielding ones.
Mat Smith falls in love with the budget-minded Nokia Lumia 620, what could be the perfect Windows Phone, while Jamie Rigg tries out the similarly low-priced HTC One SV.
Big harvests in 2000 and 2001, bolstered by loads of new high-grade grapes such as Kuleto's, have increased the supply of premium wine and pushed out marginal, low-end producers.
This spring, when 7-Eleven rolled out Slurpee Lite, a low-calorie version of its iconic slushie, there was snark aplenty.
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