Although introducing open-plan offices may appear cheaper in the short-term, it is important to acknowledge the indirect costs to the wellbeing, performance and retention of staff.
The former may appear cheaper in the short run and require less careful planning, but is likely to be extremely costly over the medium term and very difficult to reverse.
On a phone $5 may seem steep, but the bigger screen size and history of $50 disc-based games may make $5 appear cheap on the Mac App Store.
In some cases, a one-time event may have caused the PE to fall in the short term, making the stock appear cheap, said Safa Muhtaseb, a portfolio manager with New York's ClearBridge Investments.
At 13 times expected 2006 earnings, the shares appear cheap.
Budget arithmetic may -- wrongly -- make it appear cheaper to hand out more guarantees, since that would delay having to pay the money.
The meaning is clear: a figure of a man stuffed with a cheap material may appear scary but is really weak and defenseless.
Mr. von Ahn said that the cost of hiring people, even as cheap as it may appear, should limit the extent of such operations to only spammers who have figured out ways to make money.
Cheap money, low percentage rates may appear superficially to encourage growth, but the reality is that high-interest microloans, paid back, lead to long-term sustainability.
