Word: cheapness
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They could, and they did, envisioning a new device, a cheap, mobile, mass-produced computer that even illiterate farmers and poorly educated small businessmen could use. But it would have to be scalable and Internet-ready and therefore suitable for banks, local governments, schools and relief agencies...
...works hard to demonstrate that its offshore business is clean and tightly regulated. It has to: financial services - banking, insurance and asset management - account for 42% of the island's income. Its former big earner, as a seaside resort for the British, lost out decades ago to cheap travel and the Costa del Sol, and though there is farming, fishing and some light industry, it is the island's status as a tax haven that powers the economy. Being an offshore center these days means living under constant scrutiny from industrialized nations anxious about money laundering and their tax revenues...
...would help them since, ultimately, they are correct. After researching on the National Low Income Housing Coalition (a website I was directed to by the PSLM), I found information that confirmed that, not only is $10.25 reasonable as a living wage (even for a single person living in a cheap area), but it may even...
Most important, the U.S. military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles--UAVs to the military, drones to everybody else--is increasing in sophistication and capability. Rumsfeld, conducting an exhaustive review of how the U.S. wages war, is convinced the time has come to rely more on cheap drones. Last year Congress--concerned over the American public's skittishness about U.S. casualties--told the Pentagon it wants one-third of U.S. bombing missions flown by unmanned warplanes...
...week's rally, the NASDAQ is still down more than 60% from its all-time high and off 14.4% this year. Slowing profits, lack of visibility beyond the next few months, and sympathy selling have scratched once Teflon-tough technology stocks like Cisco, Oracle and Intel. They're so cheap now, you can buy a dozen shares of each for less than the price of a laptop...