He asked also for more supplies to trade at a low price for the Indians' pelts.

The comparatively low price for a complete computer system with dedicated monitor, its high resolution monochrome text and graphic capabilities and the possibility to run CP / M software also rendered the system attractive for business users, which was reflected by a wide selection of application software.

disposal at a low price in case of necessity.

Arbitrage tends to reduce price discrimination by encouraging people to buy an item where the price is low and resell it where the price is high ( as long as the buyers are not prohibited from reselling and the transaction costs of buying, holding and reselling are small relative to the difference in prices in the different markets ).

Eventually what he'd be left with is something similar to a call option on the underlying stock, acquired at a very low price.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

Since then, consistent liberalization and astute economic management has led to the removal of 95 % of all price controls, low unemployment, a positive balance of payments position, a stable exchange rate, a shift of exports from former communist economic bloc markets to Western Europe, and relatively low foreign debt.

US President Reagan also actively hindered the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas to Europe whilst simultaneously actively working to keep gas prices low, which kept the price of Soviet oil low and further starved the Soviet Union of foreign capital.

Speculators look to buy an asset in the future at a low price according to a derivative contract when the future market price is high, or to sell an asset in the future at a high price according to a derivative contract when the future market price is low.

It was only in the 1990s that the price for Chinese-derived erbium oxide became low enough for erbium to be considered for use as a colorant in art glass.

It is claimed that some Indian companies buy Afghan pistachios for a very low price, process them in India and sell to western countries as Indian products.

Its low price started to multiply users and opened a new market for computing and expert systems.

On 2 June 1793, Paris sections — encouraged by the enragés (" enraged ones ") Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert – took over the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.

The hunters reported being able to club the unwary animals to death one after another, making the hunt profitable even though the price per seal skin was low.

When Jones too drew away, she returned to a thorn bush in the neck of land running into the gully, crouched low and waited as before.

He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost.

It has no permanently dry land area, although large parts of the reef become exposed during low tide.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

Air shows, and other big shows such as agricultural shows, on grassy land, are vulnerable to continued heavy rain waterlogging the ground, and making the cloudbase too low for flying, forcing cancellation, or the show ending early, costing much money for the show's organizers, as people and parking cars have difficulty moving about and turn the land into a morass, and the organizers may be tempted to put straw or cinders down to make movement easier, and the owner of the land cannot accept the resulting damage.

This can be used to improve the shuttle's trajectory, by making it dip more rapidly as it passes the net ; for example, a sliced low serve can travel slightly faster than a normal low serve, yet land on the same spot.

It is impossible to define narrowly the boundaries of this early land of Chaldea, and one may only locate it generally in the low, marshy, alluvial land about the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates, which then discharged their waters through separate mouths into the sea.

If a compression test does give a low figure, and it has been determined it is not due to intake valve closure / camshaft characteristics, then one can differentiate between the cause being valve / seat seal issues and ring seal by squirting engine oil into the spark plug orifice, in a quantity sufficient to disperse across the piston crown and the circumference of the top ring land, and thereby effect the mentioned seal.

Many of these grants were sold at relatively low prices to land speculators, with some land kicked back to Wentworth.

Honduran agricultural production overall has tended to be low because the amount of crop yielded by a given amount of land has been low.

Taxation in Hong Kong raises revenues from the sale and taxation of land and taxation on the accumulative overall economic growth but not engaged directly in industry and commerce as well as individual ( s ) for profit due to its low tax policy.

By restricting the sale of land leases, the Hong Kong government keeps the price of land at what some would say are artificially high prices and this allows the government to support public spending with a low tax rate.

The natural beach at Hayling was predominantly sandy but in recent years it has been mechanically topped with shingle dredged from the bed of the Solent in an effort to reduce beach erosion and reduce the potential to flood low lying land.

Hengist bows low in thanks, and tells Vortigern that, while Vortigern has provided him with much land, he wishes Vortigern would make of him a consul or a prince, as Hengist notes Hengist's royal heritage dictates.

Iodine's rarity in many soils, due to initial low abundance as a crust-element, and also leaching of soluble iodide by rainwater, has led to many deficiency problems in land animals and inland human populations.

Parts of the parish of St Clement in the south were previously below sea-level but the construction of a seawall and infilling of low land has probably left only a few pockets of land below mean sea level.

LORAN ( LOng RAnge Navigation ) is a terrestrial radio navigation system which enables ships and aircraft to determine their position and speed from low frequency radio signals transmitted by fixed land based radio beacons, using a receiver unit.

Lithium's low reactivity compared to other alkali metals is due to the proximity of its valence electron to its nucleus ( the remaining two electrons are in lithium's 1s orbital and are much lower in energy, and therefore they do not participate in chemical bonds ).

The dilapidated house was chosen because of its low rent and proximity to the Cossipore burning-ghat where Ramakrishna was cremated.

In 2006, Progressive Farmer rated Ontario County as the " Best Place to Live " in the U. S., for its " great schools, low crime, excellent health care " and its proximity to Rochester.

Eilat's arid desert climate and low humidity is moderated by proximity to a warm sea.

Both Alleghany County, VA and Covington City are known for the low cost of their housing markets and close proximity to The Homestead in Bath County ( VA ), Lexington ( VA ), The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs ( WV ), Lewisburg ( WV ), and Roanoke ( VA ), a 45 minute drive in their respective direction.

Both Alleghany County and Covington, VA are known for the low cost of its housing market and close proximity to The Homestead in Bath County, VA, Lexington, VA, The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, Lewisburg, West Virginia, a 45 minute drive in any direction and Roanoke, VA about an hour away.

Due to its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, heavy fogs and low overcasts are common throughout the year, sometimes producing light drizzle.

Numerous big-box retailers are located in close proximity to the mall, as are several hotels and low / midrise office buildings.

The village is a haven for industrial businesses, as it is located along the high truck-traffic corridors of Illinois Route 47 and I-90 and a branch of the Chicago & Northwest rail line, and also maintains comparably low taxes, wide open spaces, and equal proximity to Chicago, Rockford, and Wisconsin.

Dormont's economic stability can be attributed to this diversity along with its close proximity to jobs in Downtown Pittsburgh, access to The " T " ( Pittsburgh Light Rail ), diverse housing stock, and historically low crime rates.

In 2011, New Jersey Monthly magazine named Ho-Ho-Kus the best place to live in the state of New Jersey, citing its affluence, its low crime rate, and the quality of its school system, as well as its proximity to New York City and other major commercial destinations.

Throughout its history, Philippi has suffered from floods because of its proximity to the river and the relatively low elevation of most of the town.

Wealthy households are attracted to Hørsholm by its comparatively low income tax rate, proximity to forests and the sea.

Due to the limited precipitation and the proximity to the sea, rivers in Dobruja are usually short and with low discharge.

The Middle Fork Valley is a popular recreational area since it is accessible during the winter due to its low altitude and close proximity to Seattle.

Because of the low population density of nearby areas and their proximity to the naval base on Portland, the beach and the Fleet were used for machine gun training and bouncing bomb testing for Operation Chastise in World War II.

* it has comparatively low lethality, which is useful where enemy soldiers are in proximity to noncombatants, e. g. civilians.

Howling Arctic winds that produced coastal wind chills as low as and the burany, or blinding snowstorms of the steppe, were climatic manifestations of the USSR's close proximity to the North Pole and remoteness from oceans that tended to moderate the climate.

Many of the students attend the nearby Hunter College, but the low rents, safe neighborhood and close proximity to Central Park attracts students from colleges such as Berkeley College, Rockefeller University, Cornell Medical College, New York Film Academy, Baruch College, Hunter College, and American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

West Cumbria gets relatively little snow in comparison to The Lake District and Eastern Cumbria due to its proximity to the Irish Sea, and its low height above sea level.

Deposits of brown coal have been discovered in Moscow Oblast coal basin with the aggregate commercial reserves of up to 1. 24 bln tons, of which: in Vorotynsk ( 410 mln tons ), North-Ageevskoe ( 151 mln tons ), Seredeiskoe ( 150 mln tons ), Studenevsk sections ( 103 mln tons ) and others, which, despite the low quality of coal, are of interest due to the proximity of these coal deposits to major consumers.

The area later became known as Bridgeport because of its proximity to a bridge on the Chicago River that was too low to allow safe passage for boats, so cargo had to be unloaded there.

The aircraft barely had time to reach altitude before reaching the target, but the close proximity of the front allowed for short flights and low fuel consumption which eased logistics.

Facing tough competition from French high-speed TGV trains, Air Inter had encouraged its pilots to fly at high speeds at low altitudes, and had not installed ground proximity warning systems on its airliners because such systems generated too many nuisance alarms during high-speed, low-altitude flight.

Goalies often use a particular style, but in general they make saves any way they can: catching the puck with their glove hand, deflecting the shot with their stick, blocking it with their leg pads or blocker or another part of their body, or collapsing to butterfly position to block any low shot coming, especially in close proximity.