Word: cheap
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...can tell when the politicians are getting serious about an issue: they stop taking cheap shots at one another and suddenly become pragmatic. Amazingly, that's happening right now on global warming. Just as the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of "abrupt and irreversible" damage if we don't take immediate action, a serious piece of climate legislation is beginning to pick up speed in the U.S. Senate...
...British press was writing obituaries for Savile Row's tailors, whose hand-sewn suits typically start at around $6,000. Even some of the oldest and most august establishments were threatened by rents that had jumped 50% in 10 years. The street also faces growing competition, both from cheap Asian knockoffs and from expensive made-to-measure suits by luxury brands such as Tom Ford and Giorgio Armani. "But now, at least, we're fighting back," says Anda Rowland, vice chairman of the venerable tailoring firm of Anderson & Sheppard. And, according to the industry's 14-member association, Savile...
...serving alcohol to minors and playing drinking games, police stood by while the guidelines went largely unheeded. Lowell House Stein Club Secretary Bryan A. Haut ’08 said his only interaction with the law during the event occurred when one officer stopped by to comment on the cheap brand of beer he was drinking. “I offered him one, and he said he couldn’t because he was on duty,” Haut said. This was the first Game at Yale since Connecticut criminalized the possession of alcohol on private property by those...
...state of Iowa. Neighboring India is already so worried about the growing number of Bangladeshi migrants that it is building a huge fence on the two nations' shared border. Rahman, however, sees a silver lining: Bangladesh's fleeing multitudes can help feed the West's need for cheap labor as its own population ages. "The globalization of the climate process will force the globalization of the demographic process," he says. And if the rich world is not ready to let in millions of Bangladeshis looking for somewhere dry to live? "The rich world caused this problem so they're going...
...quarter: Harvard recovers the attempted onsides kick, and Yale's Travis Henry takes a cheap shot at Steve Williams after the play, earning a penalty...