Telephone debt You are called by "Her Majesty's Court" and told you have defaulted on a debt for an expensive telephone preference service.
The desire-satisfaction view may render interpersonal comparisons empirically meaningful (by relating the interpersonally significant maximal and minimal levels of welfare for each individual to the attainment of his or her most and least preferred alternatives), but at the expense of running into problems of expensive tastes or adaptive preferences (Hausman 1995).
But specialized (and expensive, depending on your preferences) equipment is required in order to experience VR.
Not only is growth in the spirits industry picking up again from the doldrums of the mid-1990s, byoyed by an ageing population and a growing preference for expensive brands over cheap ones.
A preference for expensive high-tech over "cheap-tech" is shaping recent developments in the technology industry to the advantage of Hewlett-Packard and Advanced Micro Devices, according to research firm Caris & Company.
It means expensive travel arrangements: a preference perhaps sometimes, but a necessity during breaks, when dorms and dining halls close on some campuses.
This was especially true, it appeared, in dealing with American donors, who 'can be quite hard to keep under control', having domestically generated objectives of their own which cut across the Ministry's – including, one senior official claimed, a preference for expensive drugs manufactured by American companies rather than generic substitutes.
If you enjoy a weekly massage or have a preference for expensive wine, cut down on the frequency of these treats so you're spending money on them only once a month or once every second month.
Neither report disclosed its source, but both said that Apple was poised to change fundamentally the way it sells the iPhone in Europe, giving up its demand for a share of wireless data revenue from service providers — which some analysts say is as much as 30percentto— to accommodate local preferences for less expensive, subsidized devices.
Since the onset of the recession, American Eagle has benefited from consumers downgrading their shopping preferences from more expensive competitors like Abercrombie & Fitch.
All countries should make available a cheap, unlicensed drug to prevent blindness in older people – one in preference to the expensive licensed version promoted by pharmaceutical companies, a World Health Organisation committee has ruled.
