By 2000, however, several of Caitac's biggest customers had moved the bulk of their manufacturing to Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, where cheap labor improved their profits.
Livelier merchandising techniques (the spread of children's bookshops, for example), the availability of cheap paperbacks, improved library services, serious and even distinguished reviewing these are among the post-World War II institutional trends helping to place more books in the hands of more children.
In addition, the development of faster, cheaper and improved sequencing methods has made genomics a tool that has a place in the workflow of a routine microbiology laboratory.
The gravity dam design was dropped, and a relatively new, cheaper and improved but controversial design was adopted: the multiple-arch buttress dam.
They are young, relatively cheap and improving daily.
"A cheap euro, improving domestic demand, decreasing inventories, an increasing trend in new orders and upbeat producers have all failed to result in growth in industrial production in 2015," he said.
American wage restraint and newly cheap energy have improved its attractiveness to manufacturers.
Instead, they made cheap but ever improved copiers whose sales increased rapidly because the copiers were small, simple and convenient.
Quieting New York isn't a simple task, but it's a lot simpler and cheaper than improving the public schools or creating affordable housing.
To compete with a country whose labor costs one-fourth of Mexico's, they say, the government needs to reduce taxes, provide cheaper electricity, improve roads and curtail corruption.
