Word: cheaper
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Though domestically produced goods in Europe and Japan tend to be cheaper and better tailored to national tastes than most heavily taxed U.S. imports, some governments may even prefer to see real competition in some fields, e.g., textiles, rather than U.S. retaliation against their own dollar exports. Another effect of quota relaxations may be to prompt U.S. manufacturers to design goods specifically for European markets. Competition, said Antoine Pinay, is "the best of stimulants and the most effective of disciplines...
...still limits or bars a long list of U.S. goods ranging from construction machinery to comic books; France excludes U.S. bourbon while buying British Scotch; Japan requires licensing for 70% of her imports, will not let Japanese businessmen buy some imports from the U.S. even when U.S. prices are cheaper. Last week...
What is important is that students be consulted somehow and that this poll be framed in such a way as to provide the maximum variety of deconversion choices. While no one likes sleeping in double-decker bunks, there are merits to "converted" suites beyond the cheaper prices. "Crowding" makes roommates of three, four, and five possible in situations where only two or three students lived in lonely privacy during the thirties. If nothing else, Quincy House has shown that four-man living arrangements are comfortable, providing the individual can have privacy when he wants...
...INSURANCE RATES will be cut 10% on compact cars by Allstate Insurance Co. because firm says small cars will cause less damage in accidents, have smaller glass area, and are cheaper to repair than big cars...
...matter of less than $40,000, and could easily be covered by a nominal increase in tuition, the fact remains that, for Exeter, or any school or college with a substantial endowment, the financial gain of the revised curriculum is largely lost. For most schools, the prospect of cheaper education would be the main reason for change...