And her demand that you always stay within your budget, if taken literally, will force you to forgo special sales when your supermarket cuts the price of steak in half, for example, or offers a "buy one, get one free" promotion on staple items.
Nor are utility judgments as arbitrary as Will implies: Is it really that hard to distinguish between a family that must spend all its spare income on staple foods and one that can fill the larder and still have money left over for a vacation home, or several? .
We find that neither program had effects on staple food consumption.
For two centuries, Congress refused to permit patents on staple crops.
Historically, the bulk of agricultural research in the U.S. has been focused on staple crops.
To that end Tesco announced a £200m price cuts scheme focused on staple groceries.
In this study, we analyzed the effect of staple height, buttressing, and overlapping of staple lines on staple line failure.
Price controls on staple goods, meant to keep those goods affordable and constrain inflation, have instead helped cause critical shortages.
In less developed nations, people rely on staple foods, such as wheat, rice, and corn (maize), for most of their vitamins.
Furthermore, although the restrictions were inframarginal, partially restricted vouchers crowded-in spending on staple foods, suggesting the existence of a "flypaper effect" in spending from restricted vouchers.
