Word: cheap
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...broken health system. Most of the country lives there. Take Abhishek Khushwa. He would be a normal kid but for the fact that nine years after his birth with a bladder defect, his family is still struggling to get him what should be a simple and relatively cheap operation. Like many sick Indians, Abhishek is both symptom and cause. His lack of proper treatment is reason enough for national shame but his ill health hurts the country in turn, not only forcing the frail-looking boy to miss school for a week or two every few months while he searches...
...game whose overall benefit to society is always in debate, there is a drunk driving simulator that's truly terrifying. Perhaps terrifying enough to make the teens who bribed cool adults to buy them both M for Mature video games and cheap vodka think twice before getting behind the real-life wheel. (Kids, try getting actually drunk, then driving drunk in the game, and see what happens...
...infantile method of harassment.” “He approached [us] at the last minute, but we already had our program set,” Sultany said, confirming Chomsky’s statement. “And it was obvious that they were trying to get a cheap shot, where we would be in a position to have to say no.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...circumspection in evaluating the government’s role in the aftermath of Katrina, he should call for circumspection again, this time from himself. Taking a step back from the campaign trail, McCain should recognize that his integrity and straight-talking reputation is worth more than a few cheap votes...
...referring to the mass popularity of the Nazi aesthetic. This modern artistic phenomenon is even worse: There isn’t even any aesthetic pleasure any more. All that these increasingly macabre displays provoke is the temporary fury of the average gent and the viewer’s cheap satisfaction that at least there is someone in the world more senseless, base, and ugly than...