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fall and price
It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.
Once the price of inkjet printers dropped to the point where they were competitive with dot matrix printers, dot matrix printers began to fall out of favor for general use.
From another perspective, the farmer and the miller both reduce a risk and acquire a risk when they sign the futures contract: the farmer reduces the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract and acquires the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract ( thereby losing additional income that he could have earned ).
The miller, on the other hand, acquires the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract ( thereby paying more in the future than he otherwise would have ) and reduces the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract.
The " Law of Supply " states that, in general, a rise in price leads to an expansion in supply and a fall in price leads to a contraction in supply.
The argument is that if the money supply is constant, increases in the cost of a good or service will decrease the money available for other goods and services, and therefore the price of some those goods will fall and offset the rise in price of those goods whose prices have increased.
Plated bullets fall between cast and traditional jacketed bullets in price.
This perception rests upon the assumption that if a surplus of goods or services exists, they would naturally fall in price to the point where they would be consumed.
Also, the high price set by the cartel would encourage new firms to enter the industry and offer competitive pricing, causing prices to fall once again.
In February 1999 the company launched a bond issue which caused a significant fall in Railtrack's share price.
Regulatory and customer pressure had been increasing, and the company's share price began to fall sharply as it became apparent that there were serious shortcomings in the company's ability to tackle and solve its greatest problems.
In the United States, contracts for the sale of goods where the price equals $ 500 or more ( with the exception of professional merchants performing their normal business transactions, or any custom-made items designed for one specific buyer ) fall under the statute of frauds under the Uniform Commercial Code ( article 2, section 201 ).
The greatest share of the tax burden tends to fall on the most inelastic factor involved — the part of the transaction which is affected least by a change in price.
However, the size of its contribution to the total global economy dropped from 28. 8 % to 24. 5 % by nominal price or a fall from 23. 8 % to 20. 4 % adjusted for purchasing power.
* Japan ( U. S. $ 5. 07 trillion ) retained its position of possessing the second largest economy in the world, but its contribution to the world economy also shrank significantly from 14. 5 % to 8. 7 % by nominal price or a fall from 7. 8 % to 6. 0 % adjusted for purchasing power.
The price of food rose sharply during epidemic years, then began to fall very rapidly as there were fewer mouths to feed.

fall and among
After the fall of James II of England, in 1688, Mather was among the leaders of the successful revolt against James's governor of the consolidated Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros.
King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, a landmark step towards reducing Baghdad's isolation among its Sunni Arab neighbours.
Such a subject I conceived myself to have found in a stream, traced from its source in the hills among the yellow-red moss and conical glass-shaped tufts of bent, to the first break or fall, where its drops become audible, and it begins to form a channel ".
These members do not fall under one job title but they are very diversely spread out among the working area.
The groups in the film all oppose the Roman occupation of Judea, but fall into the familiar pattern of intense competition among factions that appears, to an outsider, to be over ideological distinctions so small as to be invisible ; " ideological purity ", as Cleese once described it.
In the 2011 fall term, among students who had designated a major, the School of Engineering was the most popular division, enrolling 62. 7 % of students in its 19 degree programs, followed by the School of Science ( 28. 5 %), School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences ( 3. 7 %), Sloan School of Management ( 3. 3 %), and School of Architecture and Planning ( 1. 8 %).
Uniquely among mammals, these teeth are continuously replaced throughout life, with new teeth growing at the rear as older teeth fall out from farther forward in the mouth.
In state and federal courts in the United States of America, jurisdiction is often divided geographically among local trial courts, several of which fall under the territory of a regional appeals court.
Second, technological changes, particularly the dramatic fall in information communication costs, which are a significant component of transaction costs, have led to changes in coordination among the members of the supply chain network ( Coase, 1998 ).
In fall semester 2011, 4, 182 International students enrolled, making up 17 % of the undergraduate student body, one of the highest among Canadian universities.
Since this war was considered among the ancient Greeks as either the last event of the mythical age or the first event of the historical age, several dates are given for the fall of Troy.
Following the fall of Constantinople the former Roman Empire was partitioned among the Latin crusaders and the Venetians.
By 1932, the Great Depression had forced studios to cut back on needless expense and it was not until 1953 that wider aspect ratios were again used in an attempt to stop the fall in attendance due, partially, to the emergence of television in the U. S. However, a few producers and directors, among them Alfred Hitchcock, have been reluctant to use the anamorphic widescreen size featured in such formats as Cinemascope.
The fall of Granada has a significant place among the important events that mark the latter half of the Spanish 15th century.
In 192, there was some talk among the coalition of appointing Liu Yu, an imperial relative, as emperor, and gradually its members began to fall out.
After the fall of Communism in Russia, many prominent Soviets came to Turku to study Western business practices, among them Vladimir Putin, then Leningrad's deputy mayor.
However, the LaserWriter featured AppleTalk support that allowed the printer to be shared among as many as sixteen Macs, meaning that its per-user price could fall to under $ 450, far less expensive than HPs less-advanced model.
For example, Trobriand Islanders prohibit both sexual relations between a woman and her brother, and between a woman and her father, but they describe these prohibitions in very different ways: relations between a woman and her brother fall within the category of forbidden relations among members of the same clan ; relations between a woman and her father do not.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union various new religious movements have sprung up and gathered a following among ethnic Russians.
As of fall 2011, Florida ranked fourteenth among all institutions in the number of new National Merit Scholars enrolled.
Thus the siege is broken, but at heavy cost: many warriors of Gondor and Rohan fall, among them King Théoden.
Until the fall of the Royalist stronghold of Lima in 1821, and the Battle of Ayacucho of 1824, territorial integrity was solely sustained by the military brilliance of Generals José de San Martín and Manuel Belgrano, the continuous efforts of northern provinces defenders Martín Miguel de Güemes and Juana Azurduy, among many others.
The development, appearance, and classification of teeth fall within its field of study, though dental occlusion, or contact among teeth, does not.
It sponsors adult summer and fall slow-pitch softball that is popular among residents in Athens and the county.

fall and five
Since it requires only five players, it would seem to fall into the category of chamber music -- yet it calls for a double bass, an instrument generally regarded as symphonic.
In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?
The sentiment is summarized in a line from Ovid's Amores I. 1. 27 Sex mihi surgat opus numeris, in quinque residat-" Let my work rise in six steps, fall back in five.
With the fertility rate averaging about seven children per adult female and expected to fall only to five children per adult female by the year 2000, the population projection of 35 million in 2025 becomes more credible.
Thus we have in the first five centuries such epithets applied to her as " in every respect holy ", " in all things unstained ", " super-innocent " and " singularly holy "; she is compared to Eve before the fall, as ancestress of a redeemed people ; she is " the earth before it was accursed.
" Behaviors that qualify as OCBs can fall into one of the following five categories: altruism, courtesy, sportsmanship, conscientiousness, and civic virtue.
* Joseph Evan, born on April 18, 1859 ; died at five years old as the result of an accidental fall on April 30, 1864.
But there are also just five " exceptional Lie algebras " that do not fall into any of these families.
In 2004, the Lakers returned to the Finals, only to fall in five games to the Detroit Pistons.
After recessions in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s, it took five years for unemployment to fall back to its original levels.
A few positions at the university such as some in Human Resources and senior administrative positions fall outside of the five associations or unions above.
As prescribed in the United Nations University Strategic Plan 2011 – 2014, the 26 major topics of focus of the UN University ’ s academic work fall within five interdependent thematic clusters:
The five additional national holidays in the earlier five-day week remained and did not fall on the state rest day.
In ancient China, the title of prince developed from being the highest title of nobility ( synonymous with duke ) in the Zhou Dynasty, to five grades of princes ( not counting the sons and grandsons of the emperor ) by the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty. The Chinese word for prince Wang (, literally, King ) as Chinese believe the emperor Huang Di () is the ruler of all kings.
Valley Race Park shut down in the fall of 1995 but reopened five years later, in the spring of 2000.
Several thousand snakes of five breeds — including a boa constrictor — were used for the train scene, in addition to rubber ones onto which Phoenix could fall.
Basically, urban zones fall into one of five major categories: residential, mixed residential-commercial, commercial, industrial and special ( e. g. power plants, sports complexes, airports, shopping malls etc .).
A parachute-landing fall is made by hitting all five points of contact: balls of feet, calf, thigh, buttocks, and the pull-up muscle.
Became Prince Royal of Holland on his brother's death, and was King Lodewijk II for five days between his father's abdication and the fall of Holland to Napoleon Bonaparte's invading army.
' Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five and a half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground?
Joséphine was freed five days later, thanks to the fall and execution of Robespierre, which ended the Reign of Terror.
The Arizona Fall League is an off-season league owned and operated by Major League Baseball which operates during the fall in Arizona, United States, at five spring training complexes.
In general, " prototypes " fall into five basic categories:
By throwing a stone among them, Cadmus caused them to fall upon one another until only five survived, who assisted him to build the Cadmeia or citadel of Thebes, and became the founders of the noblest families of that city.

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