Word: gainful
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Marketing to the poor is challenging. Just stripping an existing product of features or packaging it in smaller quantities may not be enough to gain customers in this high-volume, low-margin enterprise. "It's not as simple as finding a low price point," says Richard Brown, marketing vice president for VIA Technologies. Company executives need to understand not only what poor consumers can afford but also what they want and can use. Motorola's Burnes says the company went through four redesigns to develop a low-cost cell phone with battery life as long as 500 hours (for villagers...
...doubled in two years to about $800,000?perhaps a third of what it would cost in Hong Kong, but hardly a steal. In some luxury buildings, prices had surged by 45% in six months, fueled by low mortgage rates, expectations among foreign buyers that China's currency will gain against the U.S. dollar and by widespread fear of missing out on this historic bonanza...
...consensus grows around an alternative, he might then be willing to be a sort of "draft" candidate, the source told me. In the secret balloting that will begin Monday afternoon, a successful candidate must receive more than two-thirds of the votes. Often, if a certain candidate starts to gain more votes through consecutive balloting, he can build the momentum necessary to reach the two-thirds threshold. Assuming that Ratzinger truly is not angling for the job, one lingering question is: Who is his preferred candidate? Three Cardinals who enjoy particular respect from their German colleague are India's Ivan...
...decade ago, while Jenkins was working at the Harvard Coop, he conceived the idea of a comedy venue that feels like “a comedian’s club that lets the audience come in.” In its initial years, the Comedy Studio did not gain instant success, with audiences numbering as few as six. Nevertheless, Jenkins refused and continues to refuse to advertise, in order to maintain the more cloistered aura of a comedian’s club...
...first time in the history of the Ivy League, grad students and researchers at two campuses are standing up together to demand contracts, more benefits, and better stipends,” said Erik Goldner, a member of the Graduate Student Employees United (GSEU), the group at Columbia trying to gain union recognition from the university...