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Thus, Uber could test its new business model – based at the time on providing luxury cars – and grow, first in San Francisco and then in other US cities, eventually expanding to other countries (as well as using its platform to push into other services).
In Italy, by contrast, even the provision of luxury car services via a smartphone application would have been prohibited.
By that time, with the global economy spinning into near-depression, commercial and industrial gold use, and even luxury demand, took a further dive.
Admittedly, sometimes time is a luxury.
Their problem – in a sense, a luxury problem – is to ensure that their consumers spend the windfall from lower import prices.
Illegally imported luxury cars in Vietnam are only a small part of the corruption scourge in Asia.
Given the weak state of Europe’s banking system, accumulating too much capital is not a luxury that the EU can afford.
From largely unused land a generation ago, Pudong has become a booming center of skyscrapers, luxury hotels, parks, industry, and vast stretches of apartment buildings.
In the same way, the Europeans will eventually find themselves having to speak with one voice and act as one body in the wider world, if only because a globalized world will not allow them the luxury of doing anything else.
The nature of these problems means that the US does not have the luxury of turning inward no matter what the outcome in Iraq.
But a slowdown in China’s economic growth cannot really be blamed for slower sales of luxury goods or empty malls.
The point is that developed countries still dominate the income bracket that can afford luxury goods.
She is tempted by the shortcut Song promises and allows herself to be seduced by him in turn for a large sum of cash and luxury apartment.
Emerging markets hold reserves because they do not have the luxury of being able to inflate their way out of a financial crunch or a government debt crisis.
But looking down on the scene from the half-finished Morgan Centre, the luxury apartment complex (where annual rents are $800,000) and seven-star hotel that is arising beside the Olympic site, one is awestruck not only by the project’s grandeur, but by its design daring.
We cannot afford the luxury of proceeding with these promising technologies sequentially.
I know from personal experience that we did not always have the luxury of getting the best outcomes.
Two hundred years ago, almost every person on the planet lived in poverty, and a tiny elite in luxury.
Of course, in order to pressure North Korea’s government to give up its nuclear option, the current international economic sanctions, which target WMD-related products and luxury goods, probably should continue.
Moving PicturesCANNES – This year’s Cannes Film Festival was marked by a profound contrast between what unfolded along La Croisette, the palm-lined sweep of pedestrian walkway that stretches between swathes of luxury hotels and the azure Mediterranean, and the films debuting onscreen.
But there remains substantial room for more consumption in luxury goods and technological products, as the purchasing power of the developing world’s middle class catches up to that in the advanced countries.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is too weak and too burdened by his rivalry with the hard-line Islamist Hamas – which rules in Gaza – to allow himself the political luxury of departing from the core demands of Palestinian nationalism.
But, for better or worse, the West does not have the luxury of waiting to make sense of recent events in Ukraine, simply because there is no assurance that what occurred in Crimea is unique.
In addition, they are sometimes mischaracterized as luxury products – as if the Internet has not become central to peoples’ lives.
This is neither a choice nor a luxury – it is a necessity.
But no country has the luxury of choosing its neighbors.
On the seat next to him is the luxury brand, a leather attaché case.
Europeans may be more cheerful, believing that the Chinese market will open not only for European engineering products and machine tools to equip the new workshop of the world, but also for luxury goods and even the tourism demanded by a new and affluent Chinese middle class.
We Europeans cannot afford the luxury of dismantling a high-value-added industrial sector in which we still have a real comparative advantage.
This is precisely the attitude that raises the hackles of domestic critics, especially on the left, who argue that a country facing India’s crippling social and economic problems cannot afford the luxury of indulging in space exploration.
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