REpower's offshore-turbine technology with its own cheap components.
Even retailers like Target, with its emphasis on cheap chic, suffered and saw flat sales.
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He is pushing Harley into places it has never gone, creating new generations of Hog-heads with its first small, cheap bike in more than 20 years and grabbing riders from rival brands with a radical new motorcycle, the V-Rod, that is Harley's biggest break from tradition in 65 years.
Palm is rejuvenating its lineup with the cheap, pretty Centro.
And with the exception of the U.S., with its diverse economy, cheap dollar, and still home to the largest middle class on earth, only emerging nations are doing better this year than they did in 2007 and in 2008.
Renault's success with its basic, ultra-cheap Romanian-built Logan saloon has inspired imitations among competitors such as Toyota of Japan and South Korea's Hyundai.
Of course, this negative effect will be felt less in China, because there is still a lot of "room at the top" when it comes to satisfying its enormous population with cheap consumer goods--manufactured, mind you, by Chinese factories.
The diva concept, with its bright pink heart logo and cheap, fashionable necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets, has been a hit with teenagers and twentysomethings in 22 countries.
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Providian should gain too: hitching itself to a big lender with lots of cheap retail deposits will cut its borrowing costs.
The European Central Bank has finally unveiled its plans for when it will tail off its support for euro zone banks with cheap loans.
Google runs its Web search empire with 100, 000 cheap servers.
One unfortunate note on the LCD: we're not sure if Stantum didn't pick a high-quality part, had some trouble with the hand-built nature of this product, or is really impeding the LCD with its resistive overlay, but there was something cheap and pixelated to the display that we haven't noticed on standard Dell mini 10 LCDs.
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The Atlas' flattery isn't perfectly executed, however -- the gamepad's shoulder buttons depress with a noticeably loud click and its triggers feel somewhat cheap when directly compared to Microsoft's original levers.
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The easy solution of buying off Cyprus with cheap loans to fill the holes in its banks and repay its debt would have sent a signal that other countries could escape the consequences of unwise policies.
By curbing exports in these industries, China alleviates some of its friction with manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe that accuse the Asian country of dumping its cheap goods abroad.
Yet Apex, undaunted, vastly expanded its business with Changhong, selling 1.5 million cheap Changhong TV sets in the U.S. market in 2002.
Hyundai, Kia and especially General Motors, with its Chevrolet Aveo, are dominating the small-and-cheap segment.
Hyundai, Kia and especially General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ), with its Chevrolet Aveo, are dominating the small-and-cheap segment.
The M100 also figured this one was a bargain: Hertz is pretty cheap relative to its expected earnings power, with a price-to-earnings growth ratio of just 0.73.
And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade.
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Then as now, it is naive to assume that Chinese consumers will buy what you make just because it is cheap, and foolish to treat the vast country with its differences in income, climate and tastes as a single, giant market.
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If a company is convinced that its source will remain unchanged in the future, then going with cheap transportation makes sense.
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While Skype was initially popular with techies, it increasingly worked its way into the mainstream by offering free or cheap phone calls which were especially appealing to international callers.
With its manufacturing efficiency and strong brand name, he says, Dell can defeat the cheap-PC guys just as it beat Packard Bell earlier in the decade.
But this is a beach town, and no spot is more symbolic of its identity than the promenade above the sands, crammed with stalls selling all manner of cheap holiday novelties to browsing vacationers.
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