Even now, following the debut of By Lauren Luke, her makeup line, and a new book deal, Ms. Luke herself remains the real commodity.
African music has become a real commodity in Paris: a number of competing specialty shops have cropped up in the past two decades, and FNAC, the large French music-and-bookstore chain, now features an African section.
But Mr Simon also had history on his side: real commodity prices fell steadily throughout the 20th century.In this section High hopes, low returns Not so fast The midget and the mighty Reflections of reality The Corzine put Flat plan The revenge of Malthus Why the tail wags the dog ReprintsMr Simon duly won the bet.
Technocratic middle-aged couples who've clearly never seen the like squint sceptically at alien-faced monkfish, thinking: OK, it's not sexy, it's not Nokia or Bang & Olufsen, but at least this is a real commodity we can sell to real people, not some bit of paper shorting options on yen-linked motorhome derivatives.
Confidence is a real commodity in professional sport we know that.
After decades of falling real commodity prices in agriculture, forestry and mining, natural amenities have become central components of regional growth strategies.
Time is the only real commodity in this world.
"I'm constantly watching not only the stock market and exchange rates, but also our actual provincial factory output, and real commodity prices in our area.
I had never taken a single business course in college, and the only real commodity we had was around our own skills in writing, advertising and video production.
