The root cause of all this is the BBC's comparative strength.
The City's comparative advantage is clear from Britain's trade balance.
Information comparing the different products on offer is widely available - on BBC 2 Ceefax pages 250-259, on the internet (eg the FSA's comparative tables) and in newspapers and magazines.
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Liz Claiborne's declines were offset slightly by sales of the company's Kate Spade brand, which increased comparative sales by 44% during the quarter.
Real-world car buyers should prefer the four-cylinder car, reasoning that the fractional loss of horsepower is more than compensated by the 328i's price, the fuel economy and the comparative lightness.
The more transparent an economy becomes, the more David Ricardo's 19th-century law of comparative advantage rules the day.
Webster says he's seen a number of productivity applications, such as a shopping service that scans bar codes with the phone's camera and supplies comparative pricing, product reviews and local store information.
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Building global brands is more competitive and demands more rigorous management than when Japanese and then South Korean companies undertook the challenge at comparative levels of their country's economic development.
An acceleration in store traffic in the U.S. helped sales on a comparative basis to increase 7%.
"Now in its third year, the Federal Reserve's review of capital plans provides a regular, structured, and comparative way to promote and assess the capacity of large bank holding companies to understand and manage their capital positions, with particular emphasis on risk-measurement practices, " Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo said.
Aerospace technology is one of the few remaining areas of distinct U.S. comparative advantage.
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We - I think that's on the border, more of a comparative ad.
Another hopeful sign is that Mr Nastase's comparative popularity has weakened support for the opposition Greater Romania Party and its leader, Vadim Tudor, a sycophant in Ceausescu's court whose xenophobic nationalism won him 33% of the vote in last year's presidential election.
But this position of comparative privilege is precisely why the Shia matter so much to Pakistan's future.
O'Rourke's explanation of "Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage" -- using the thrillers of John Grisham and songs ("noise") of Courtney Love -- is a classic.
If you want to go down the scale a bit, you can get some comparative bargains among smallish U.S. producers.
Colombia's rice growers and poultry farmers look to be on the wrong side of comparative advantage.
Right across the four Grand Slam events -- the Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon and French Open -- comparative prize pools have been affected by volatile exchange rates, largely caused by the recession.
Ethiopia's comparative advantage in wages, productivity, and natural resources has led the Huajian Group, a Chinese shoe maker, to build a factory in Ethiopia in three months, with two production lines starting in January 2012, exporting 20, 000 pairs of shoes a month and creating some 550 jobs.
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According to Ricardo's theory, both countries will be better off if each specialises in the industry where it has a comparative advantage, and if the two trade with one another.
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