Word: cheap
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...from Hindu epic the Ramayana, into a motif that adorns items by Bangkok's Hey Pilgrim! label. The 28-year-old says that if Bangkok has identity issues they are not cultural but to do with market perception - it is seen as "the place where you buy silk and cheap wholesale." She would like it to be "a true player on the fashion front" instead...
HONG KONG — I know where to get the best dim sum. I've printed out listings of swanky restaurants. I'm dreaming of street meat and cheap pastries, Portuguese egg tarts and piles of fresh seafood...
...Cheap Shots? Your prominently displayed comment that 5,000-m runner Nader al Masri "is used to sprinting from Israeli gunfire in Gaza, where he trains," shocked me [Aug. 4]. The Israeli-Palestinian crisis causes many people on both sides stress and sleepless nights. Your comment gives the impression that Israelis actually try to kill civilians. While Palestinian terrorists usually target Israeli civilians, Israeli soldiers target the terrorists and their bases of operation. I wish Al Masri good luck at the Olympics, but I hope that in future you will think twice before making such a cynical...
...ever to feed itself, he argued, "you have to make sacrifices at some point." In the villages, they were already making sacrifices. Children were being left to die so a family might live. That's a calculation that can strike outsiders as cruel. Some conclude life in Ethiopia is cheap. That's would be a mistake, as anyone who has heard the funeral wails can tell you. Because of food aid, Ethiopians have learned to make the tough choices. With reporting by Kassahun Addis/Addis Ababa
...Those incidents are just two of many in a series of violent and destructive acts by local grape growers over the past three years that has targeted public and private buildings, supermarkets, tanker trucks hauling cheap imported wine, and businesses accused of gouging growers with ever shrinking prices. Claiming responsibility: a clandestine group known as the CRAV, or Regional Committe of Viticulture Action...