But even then, getting a collect call from anywhere civilized was quaint (and ironically, uneconomical).
First Devon and Cornwall said the service was "underused" which made it uneconomical to run.
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Share prices are unlikely to rise to the sort of heady level that would make repurchases uneconomical.
The news in the U.S. means interbank markets are going to be uneconomical despite the intervention of the central banks.
When Ronald Reagan finally lowered rates in the 1980s, he did so in exchange for scrapping uneconomical deductions.
Preferential support to powerful lobbies and politically-advantaged uneconomical industries impose large lost opportunity costs for more productive investments.
It invests with Stakhanovite zeal in impressive but uneconomical facilities, such as oil refineries, steel mills and fertiliser plants.
Erica1234 worried that the rejection could make it uneconomical for Jazz to keep selling Xyrem for narcolepsy at the current price.
The Obama policy has been to impede, restrict, harass and attack producers of fossil fuels, while heavily subsidizing uneconomical renewable energies.
Last year Congress also reduced federal subsidies for federally-guaranteed student loans, and some lenders said that made the business uneconomical for them.
Political decisions (driven by the goal of full employment) are often uneconomical, and corruption and cronyism result in projects that destroy value.
Back then, excess reserves were considered uneconomical, since banks could make more profits off lending the money to fellow banks overnight or to clients.
So fracking will continue for a while after it becomes uneconomical.
For most, however, the traditional model is becoming uneconomical.
It will remain commercially uneconomical for the foreseeable future.
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Also, various regulations had made smaller public companies uneconomical for Wall Street firms to research, while other regulations restricted the ability of companies preparing to go public to communicate with potential investors.
"If you produce in the US at subsidised prices, it makes it uneconomical to convert in developing countries, " Canadian Finance Minister John Manley said during the recent meeting of G7 finance ministers in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
It was commercially uneconomical then.
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It is commercially uneconomical now.
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