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...protests that the other doesn't play fair because it relies on taxpayer subsidies. Embraer says it needs government help to counter Bombardier's easier access to First World financing and technology; Bombardier says it has to have aid to offset Embraer's low Third World labor costs and cheap currency. The firms have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loans, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier...
...College will offer Harvard housing at a rate of $1,300 for the summer—cheap given steep Cambridge rental rates...
...view is shared by many Pakistani military officers: backing the Kashmiri militants, whose ranks are swelled with Pakistani recruits itching for a holy war against the Hindus, has been a low-risk and cheap way to tie up hundreds of thousands of Indian troops in the freezing mountains of Kashmir. But some Pakistani intellectuals are starting to argue another line: that after 14 years of guerrilla fighting and more than 30,000 deaths in Kashmir, the Indians are not backing down. "You can't keep following this path if it leads nowhere," Hoodbhoy says. This opinion is gaining currency among...
...beyond basic necessities is also growing. Lower prices of raw materials and energy signal that they are less scarce, easier to find and cheaper to produce. Aluminum was considered a rare precious metal on par with gold and silver only 100 years ago, but technology has made its extraction cheap and its supply essentially unlimited. Demand for just 12 metals makes up more than 99 percent of world demand for all metals, and supply of those 12 is now considered inexhaustible. Oil prices have fallen over tenfold in the last century while the amount of proven reserves has vastly increased...
...dramatic moment of the move follows years of preparation, and it didn’t come cheap. Transporting the house itself cost about $80,000 and clearing the route added another $100,000, according to Murray...