Word: cheap
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...instance, governments can eliminate the estimated $700 billion in annual subsidies that spur the destruction of ecosystems. In Tunisia, water is priced at one-seventh of what it costs to pump, encouraging waste. In the mid-1980s, Indonesia spent $150 million annually to subsidize pesticide use. With access to cheap chemicals, Indonesian farmers poured pesticides onto their rice fields, killing pests, to be sure, but also causing human illness and wiping out birds and other creatures that ate the pests. When Indonesia ended the subsidies in 1986, pesticide use dropped dramatically with no ill effects on rice production...
...whose tail pipe emits nothing but water vapor. In a giant wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, engineers are set to analyze air turbulence in order to make superefficient wind-power turbines. In Japan scientists are perfecting paper-thin solar cells that will be cheap to produce and could turn every house into its own electricity supplier. These ventures, along with many others, are beginning to draw the outlines of a world in which energy use keeps rising and, though fossil fuels remain an important power source, CO2 levels in the atmosphere actually begin to drop...
...stimulate the business climate (and the local elites). But the programs also drive up the cost of living, rip holes in already tattered safety nets and help kill small farms and businesses. After Haiti lifted its trade barriers under IMF pressure in 1986, for instance, an imported mountain of cheap American rice--subsidized by the U.S. government--buried the island's rice industry...
...your average cost is $22.37 per share, giving you an 11.8% gain.Viewed this way, volatility is a grossly overrated problem. Sure, it's tough to watch your stocks fall. But it certainly helps if you know that the companies are solid and that you're systematically buying on the cheap...
...Sinking shares turn yesterday's acquirer into today's acquiree. Falling values also render employee stock options ? the ability to buy company shares at a predetermined price, hopefully much lower than where it trades ? into a cruel joke. Worst of all, cheap shares cut off new supplies of cash that are needed if a money-losing company hopes ever to build a sustainable business. The latest example of an unwelcome dot-com is Altavista, which on Friday pulled a public debut scheduled for this week...