Cars are becoming more like smartphones: expensive to develop and market, and with some pricey parts, but cheap to assemble in their millions, with endless variations.The carmakers with most scope for profitable mass customisation will be the largest ones, the "10m-plus club" that will shape up in the next few years: Toyota, GM and VW, with Renault-Nissan and Hyundai in hot pursuit (see chart 2).
The gifts are cheap to assemble, and so presumably the returns for the school are high.
The beauty of preferreds is that they offer you a far cheaper way to assemble a diversified portfolio.
Digital processes have made it cheaper and easier to assemble such multitudes in films like "Gladiator" and "300," but pixels are pixels, no matter how artfully deployed.
To a growing minority Apple is viewed as just another unethical company employing cheap overseas labor to assemble its wares while filling its coffers with the savings.
The cheapest possibility is to assemble a semi-closed system from standard commercially available components of anesthesia machines.
When I bemoaned this fact to Mr. Blevins, he pointed to a cheaper, more exciting way to assemble a mass of coleus: grow the plants from seed.
Liter of Light has developed a solar-powered light that is cheap and relatively easy to assemble and whose main feature is a plastic bottle: the kind that holds a litre of fizzy drink, and that is usually thrown away once empty.
That costs about $20; you might be able to assemble your own for cheaper, though!
They would be "easy to assemble," she said, "and cheap enough to leave behind, if need be".
Motivation: With advances in sequencing technology, it has become faster and cheaper to obtain short-read data from which to assemble genomes.
