Often companies give away the razor (the meter) for the recurring blade (strip) business.
"The razor fell out of her hands when I stepped in between them, " Castle said.
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Apple is making money on the razor and taking 30 percent of every blade.
And margins on infrastructure are higher than the razor-thin margins on e-commerce.
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But the printer business is a classic "give away the razor, make money on the blades" strategy.
The high-stress work often puts these airmen on the razor's edge between saving a life and losing their own.
Does the CTS-V have the razor-sharp, fine-tuned European flavor of BMW and Benz?
Give away the razor so that you can keep someone buying razor blades.
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For what Amazon are doing is the old Gillette strategy of giving away the razor in order to sell razor blades.
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He starts scraping under my sideburns, holding the skin taut, and then shaves down in one stroke, exerting no pressure on the razor.
But Najib was weakened by the razor-thin margin with which he kept his seat in the general elections, and Razaleigh disappointed by failing to deliver his native Kelantan to UMNO.
While the companies are targeting relatively new markets, their divergent strategies revive an age-old marketing question: Should a company give away the razor, then make up the difference with the blades?
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Bruce's Obi-Wanish trainer, a man named Ducas who is played by Liam Neeson, peddles self-realization nostrums like a cross between Cecil Humphreys's holy man in "The Razor's Edge" and Doctor Phil.
That explains the razor-thin profit margins of on-line retailers.
But will the razor-sharp former radio-advertising salesman really jump?
Other important cutting tools include: the razor, the scissor.
And yes, you get the razor handle for free.
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First though, Solovev had to deal with a young bear, about 2m tall with handsome claws, that the rangers had started calling "Freddy Krueger" in homage to the razor-clawed slasher from the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Dell "is like the safety razor of the PC world, " says Scholz.
Each stroke with the new razor takes off around 40% more stubble than before.
That leaves the online retailer with roughly the same razor thin margins found at other, less sexy discount retailers.
He and Harry's co-founder, Andy Katz-Mayfield, have dispensed with the "razor-razorblade model, " which hooks a gentleman on a cheap razor that requires refills of expensive blades.
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The unique (and secret) agenda, researched by tour founder Jed Rothenberg, ties together three classic locations that focus on fading, male-oriented local arts -- the straight razor shave, a custom hat workshop and a classic cigar bar.
For a second year a band of unhappy shareholders, led by Boston's Walden Asset Management and including a number of religious groups, organized a revolt against the way razor blade giant Gillette elects its directors and manages its affairs.
Other new technology ideas we introduced included the first pocket hand held computers, the shiny aluminum Razor Scooter for kids, the first automobile radar detectors, the first electronic toothbrushes, and many others.
At the top of the railings, razor wire was woven through the spikes, he said, adding to the hazards: none of them knew how Manning had done it, especially since he was a bit drunk then, too.
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MS. PSAKI: We expect the race to be razor-thin until the end.
If there are fewer than 21 ratifications by the end of October 2006--and with two no votes and the U.K. and Denmark also likely to vote no, that is cutting the margin of error razor thin--the whole matter reverts to the European Council to work out, so the Council may decide to cut its losses now.
Al Gore narrowly won the popular vote, but George W. Bush took the prize with a razor-thin margin in the Electoral College.
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