The Macintosh was the favorite among US musicians, as it was marketed at a competitive price, and would be several years before PC systems would catch up to its efficiency and graphical interface.

Contango pricing strategies that catch small investors by surprise are intuitively obvious to the managers of a large firm, who must decide whether to take delivery of a product today, at today's spot price, and store it themselves, or pay more for a forward contract, and let someone else do the storage for them.

Rarity may lead to a high unit price of a species, hence to higher incentives to catch, which in turn increases rarity, inducing a higher price, higher incentives, etc.

During this festival people pay a set price to attempt to catch salmon out of the river with their bare hands.

The fishermen had to sell the catch to the merchants at a price decided by them later.

The price of fish increased considerably as the war progressed, but the government allowed this, since it realised that fishermen would need to be able to collect a premium for their catch if they were to be persuaded to put to sea in the face of enemy submarines.

Likewise, fishermen themselves could directly market their catch to Manila and command a higher price without so much cost on fuel.

Certainly to obtain the best price for the fish caught during the fishing season the quality of the fish was of prime importance and care was taken to ensure a profitable catch.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

There is only one catch to this idyllic arrangement: Adam Smith was wrong.

The replacement of the slide-lock side safety catch will make this lever-action favorite more appealing than ever since the new safety is easier and faster to operate.

Thus, the Span of its ossification was shortened and the center's ability to `` catch up '' in ossification is demonstrated.

( Scuba diving for abalone in the states of New South Wales and Western Australia is illegal ; a free-diving catch limit of two is allowed ).

Sailfish are so plentiful that boat captains have been known to bet with a potential customer that if he does not catch anything the trip is free.

Because of this risk, patients prescribed clozapine may need to have regular blood checks to catch the condition early if it does occur, so the patient is in no danger.

The rule works this way because a smart fielder can theoretically purposely bobble the ball and run with it at the same time towards the infield and only completely catch it when he is within a good throwing distance to home plate.

Conversely, because space is expanding, and more distant objects are receding ever more quickly, light emitted by us today may never " catch up " to very distant objects.

If a player is one point away from winning a match, that player's opponent will always want to double as early as possible in order to catch up.

Although bongos are quite easy for humans to catch via snares ; it is of interest that many people native to the bongos habitat believed that if they ate or touched bongo they would have spasms similar to epileptic seizures.

Fishing is carried on extensively along the rivers, but most of the catch is sold or bartered on the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) side of the Ubangi River.

The presence of two holes in the neck, corresponding with the canine teeth, are to be expected since this is the only way that most land carnivores have to catch their prey.

* A pass is ruled complete if one of the receiver's feet is inbounds at the time of the catch.

* If the offence fumbles ( a ball carrier drops the football, or has it dislodged by an opponent, or if the intended player fails to catch a lateral pass or a snap from centre, or a kick attempt is blocked by an opponent ), the ball may be recovered ( and advanced ) by either team.

" The criticism is that the idea of " traditional society " is simply a catch all term for early non-Western society and implies that all such societies are similar.

So you can explain who Alice ( an individual ) is by pointing her out to me ; or what a rabbit ( a class ) is by pointing at several and expecting me to ' catch on '.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

If the depletion layer is large enough to catch the whole shower or to stop a heavy particle, a fairly accurate measurement of the particle ’ s energy can be made, simply by measuring the charge conducted and without the complexity of a magnetic spectrometer, etc.

This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on the Earth's surface to catch up with ( and stand directly north or south of ) the Sun about 4 minutes later each day than it would if the Earth did not orbit ; our day is 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23 hour 56 minute sidereal day.

Driver Verifier was introduced to stress test and catch device driver bugs.

Intrigued and impressed, Corley demands his driver catch up to the gang.

Since existing DOS programs expected to be able to initiate host-controlled ISA DMA for producing sound, backward compatibility with the older Sound Blaster cards for DOS programs required a software driver work-around ; since this work-around necessarily depended on the virtual 8086 mode of the PC's CPU in order to catch and reroute accesses from the ISA DMA controller to the card itself, it failed for a number of DOS games that either were not fully compatible with this CPU mode or needed so much free conventional memory that they could not be loaded with the driver occupying part of this memory.

The early part of the race was led by a driver called Chris Smith but then heavy rain started and Pryce was able to catch up to Smith and overtake him before winning the race by a comfortable margin.

The Argentine driver did catch and pass Villoresi but Ascari was a minute ahead at the finish.

Demler and Salih felt Amick was in a position to catch Bryan and perhaps even win, but decided against pushing their rookie driver into a potentially fatal mistake, and Amick came home an easy second.

Two spectators in the infield climbed over the catch fence, and with help from driver Walter Ballard, pulled Link from his car and managed to revive him.

During his twenties, he can stop and kill a charging bull with a single punch, bend a railroad rail, lift a seventy-five millimeter howitzer cannon singlehandedly, lift a car and its driver singlehandedly, rip open a bank vault, and easily catch a falling 8, 000-pound block of stone.

A slightly updated version ( PEDS-2 ) was installed for a trial basis for the 1999 Indianapolis 500, but after driver Hideshi Matsuda impacted it, another major flaw ( the tendency to " catch & pivot ") was exposed.

Due to illness, she couldn't keep up the schedule but didn't want to let anyone down and so broke her own golden rule and accepted a 15 mile lift from her back-up driver to catch up.

Eventually the class will be able to kick up high enough so that the teacher can catch the leading leg.

He warns Macbeth that evil will offer men a small, hopeful truth only in order to catch them in a deadly trap.

Therefore, a liquid will normally catch fire only above a certain temperature: its flash point.

The target is to allow Shanghai to catch up to New York by 2040-2050, with the eventual projection that China will be Asia's most prosperous economy by 2040.

A current concern is that many bird enthusiasts will rush to the area in an attempt to catch a glimpse of this rare bird.

According to Nahhas, by the end of 2011 all the areas of Lebanon will have fast internet ranging from 10-15 Mbit / s download, and 20 Mbit / s and more will be available the year after, allowing Lebanon to finally catch up with the rest of the world.

Any definition which focuses on competition will fail to explain the game of catch, or the game of solitaire.

In laboured circumstances, rowers will take a quick pant at the end of the stroke before taking a deep breath on the recovery that fills the lungs by the time the catch is reached.

This is an important consideration for spearfishing from the surface because it will make the target fish appear to be in a different place, and the fisher must aim lower to catch the fish.

) If one is behind but capable, one will still be able to catch up.

Just about anything that will stay afloat can be called a recreational fishing boat, so long as a fisher periodically climbs aboard with the intent to catch a fish.

" She asks whether it is true that, in foreign lands, a man will catch a butterfly and pin its wings to a table.

In arithmetic, for example, when multiplying by 9, using the divisibility rule for 9 to verify that the sum of digits of the result is divisible by 9 is a sanity test-it will not catch every multiplication error, however it's a quick and simple method to discover many possible errors.

This is usually over in less than a minute, and if the cheetah fails to make a catch quickly, it will give up.

' It has taken a while for us to catch on, but now that his major work-' Life: A User's Manual ' ( 1978 )-has at last been translated into English it will be impossible for us to think of contemporary French writing in the same way again.

The game is won by the detectives if they catch Mr. X by landing on the same square as Mr. X's current location, or it may be won by Mr. X if he remains out of the grasp of detectives until they all are unable to move ( which happens after 22 moves at the latest, since all detectives will have run out of usable tokens by this point ).

Often, the farmer or his wife will allow the riders to have a chicken, if they can catch it.

Even if we do not discard any facts ( or fish ) presented, we will always miss the majority ; the site of our fishing, the methods undertaken, the weather and even luck play a vital role in what we will catch.

Measles is spread through respiration ( contact with fluids from an infected person's nose and mouth, either directly or through aerosol transmission ), and is highly contagious — 90 % of people without immunity sharing living space with an infected person will catch it.

In Utah Lake, the common carp's population is expected to be reduced by 75 % by using nets to catch millions of them and either give them to people who will eat them or processing them into fertilizer.