You can buy substitutes, or make additional trips, or change what you plan to eat, but the store is not giving you exactly what you want.
Would there be talk of trading up or down spots, like at the N.F.L. draft, or attempts to trade in birthdays, the way rich families bought substitutes in the Civil War?
This could explain why it now faces expenditures of "many millions of dollars," as Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. estimated, to buy substitutes for the now-compromised equipment.
Rolls-Royce said it would buy substitute parts from an Austrian company, Fischer Advanced Composite Components, at a 25percentt savings.
The company said it would buy substitute parts from an Austrian company, Fischer Advanced Composite Components, at a 25percentt savings.
Anti-corruption investigators also discovered that Mr Sarkozy and his lawyer had been made aware of the phone taps and bought substitute phones.
In case supply has a random yield, one way to reduce supply chain loss is by introducing a dynamic pricing policy, with the aim of manipulating demand in the market while inducing the customer to buy substitute products temporarily.
"Our investments in clean coal must not come at the expense of consumers," said Mr. Quinn, echoing critics who said the Chicago measure would result in an increase in gas bills by requiring that utilities buy substitute natural gas at a fixed rate for 30 years from a subsidiary of the Leucadia National Corporation, which wanted to build the Chicago plant.
If any public money is going begging, it should be spent on bringing regular armies up to standard, not on buying substitute forces from elsewhere.
