Anyway, who needs live music when you've got friends, cheap provisions and a creative iPod playlist?
Every marketing expert says this: "High end clients do not care much for cheap provisions -- they do not trust them". If the business is using prime equipment or technology and has the best professionals or experts in the business, in the mind of the wealthy and powerful, there's no reason for the products or services to be cheap.
But, while shared non-ensuite cluster flats have historically been at the more affordable end of student accommodation offerings, this cheaper provision type is shrinking as a proportion of the market.
That partly reflects inefficiency in the independent sector, but it also reflects the higher expenses of meeting small-scale, ad hoc purchases.The new tender introduced the potential for much cheaper provision since it was for bulk purchases of 250,000 treatments a year over a five-year period.
Parents were having to cut back on food, shopping for fewer and cheaper provisions, and hungry children were finding it harder to concentrate in lessons, sometimes leading to classroom unrest and aggressive behaviour, the report said.
But alongside the public-spirited motives for a return to heirloom products, artisanal production and farm-to-table eating, there seems to be another push towards rarity, social distinction and hostility to the cheap mass provision of food as a fundamental civilised achievement.
That means the private provider's service can appear many thousands of pounds cheaper than NHS provision when bidding for contracts.
The two reviews, though from the same organisation, come up with very different perspectives and conclusions; for example, Babies and Bosses shows a clear preference for cheaper forms of provision and demand-side funding mechanisms (for a fuller discussion of these two OECD reviews, see Mahon, in press).
For instance, the government is keen to extend cheap, good quality childcare provision, so it has altered the childcare voucher rules.
Provision of cheap money - even in unlimited quantities - is not nearly so effective if businesses and consumers are unable to pay off their debts.
