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That meant Sauer would have to buy substandard vehicles, replace American employees with cheaper South Africans and pay what Sauer thought were slave wages to the Nepalese Gurkhas, who make up nearly two-thirds of the embassy's 450 guards. The situation would eventually get so bad, the POGO documents said, that it would prompt two threats of mass walkouts by the Gurkhas. Guards would end up suffering chronic sleep deprivation because the staff was 20% shorthanded...
...stores where they can purchase a wide variety of groceries; for those Indians who still purchase food daily from street vendors, the cleanliness and organization of large grocery operations is extremely appealing. As a few American stores start making inroads in the Indian economy, employing Indians and selling cheaper goods to Indians, they are received enthusiastically by much of the country’s growing consumer class. America’s dramatic industrial progress is still rare in most of the world and is often still its most defining characteristic in the arena of global opinion...
...Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care By T.R. Reid; Penguin; 288 pages...
...expand gas consumption. At this stage, anyone who can use natural gas instead of crude oil is already burning gas, as the price goes lower still. There is really only one other form of energy that natural gas will replace - coal. Yes, in some geographic areas, it is currently cheaper to use natural gas than coal. Shocking, right...
Microfridge: 1. Refrigerator-microwave combo rented out by HSA to sucker first-years who have no hope of either keeping their food cold or heating anything up within three hours. 2. It’s sometimes cheaper to purchase one than to rent from...