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Communism never came at a lower price.The Dudley Co-operative Society, better known as the Co-op, was originally established in 1958 as low-cost alternative housing for the male students of Harvard. Although it is now populated by thirty-one students of all sexes, the Co-op has remained true to its inexpensive roots. Within two Victorian houses, students do all their own cooking, cleaning, and decision-making. The Co-op is set up on a points system, so that residents must fulfill a certain amount of points every two weeks by signing up to do chores like preparing...
...other hand, says Pozsar, if you're contemplating a move from either coast to the low-cost Midwest, "it could be a total home run." Home prices have risen just 35% throughout the Midwest since 2000, compared with 90% in the West, 80% in the Northeast and 70% in the South. Having missed the big run-up, the Midwest will probably miss the slump, Pozsar says...
...gasoline is, and that becomes a barometer against which they judge how things are doing. My dad used to be able to tell you the price of a gallon of gasoline at every single filling station in Casper, Wyoming. He knew it, and he always went to the low-cost operator. There's a lot of folks out there like that...
...track of what exactly constitutes a phone these days. Never mind that the shapes and functions of cell phones change monthly, or that it?s now okay in certain cases to call a USB keychain a ?phone.? There are now devices that connect to Wi-Fi networks to provide low-cost, Skype Internet phone service. They?re not portable like cell phones, since you need to be in a Wi-Fi network to use them, but they can be handy at home (that is, a home with a broadband connection and a Wi-Fi router) or in public places that...
...McCall, as TXU's head of wholesale operations, says he needs a low-cost, reliable supply of electricity fast. Plans for nuclear facilities will take nearly a decade to develop. Coal is quicker. Using the company's new "lean academy" philosophy (based on Toyota's manufacturing system), TXU can build all 11 coal-fired plants, cookie-cutter style, with the first online in 2009. Coal gasification simply isn't in TXU's plans, primarily because of problems with the high moisture content of the cheaper Texas and Wyoming coal it buys. Waiting until the next decade, when new technologies...