Word: cheap
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...figure concert tickets." Music agents and managers are cautioning their clients to think small in 2009, at least when it comes to prices, Bongiovanni says. Some venues, like the DTE Energy Center outside Detroit, are dropping ticket prices as low as $10 to lure crowds. It's not as cheap as staying home and playing Rock Band, but it's still a pretty good deal...
...album about boys and fame be dignified? Because Pink worries her smarter-than-necessary lyrics to a glossy economy, then gets top producers (here, riff machine Max Martin) to make sure you can dance to them. The result is a thrill that feels far from cheap...
...team, the Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development associates and follows Mahatma Gandhi’s edict that all materials be found within a five-mile radius: wood, bamboo, stone, cactus milk, pig urine, and recycled bottles, to name a few. The result is cheap, safe, high-quality, and environmentally friendly housing that appears to simply grow out of the ground...
...With costs so cheap, even private citizens are getting involved. One DIY "robo-caller" from Austin, Texas funded his own phone drive during the South Carolina primary that targeted Hillary Clinton. The recorded message included claims that Clinton had paid someone to kill an opponent's cat: "Hillary thinks cats are expendable. Can you trust her?" In May, the Minnesota Family Council recorded messages that used the words "anal and oral sex" in an effort to defeat a bill for sex education in school; ironically, the organization received complaints from parents whose children had answered such calls. In March...
...Sociologists say Ireland's linguistic renaissance and the nation?s spike in immigration are both triggered in part by the 'Celtic Tiger' - the growth phenomenon that has seen the Irish economy mushroom by over 150% since 1995. Years of EU infrastructural and educational support and a young and cheap labor force made Ireland a fertile ground for foreign investment in the domestic IT sector, among other industries, and the result has seen the average annual family income double to $93,000 in the past 10 years. Nic Ghiolla Phádraig says this new prosperity brought a sense of pride...