Word: cheap
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...good as it is, you can't do a crossword puzzle on the Kindle, which speaks to a bigger problem. For most people, the Kindle is still not as good as cheap and wonderful-to-touch paper. An old saw in the technology business is that any new tech must be 10 times as good as the thing it seeks to displace. Most people would agree that the automobile was exponentially better than the horse, just as the personal computer was a vast improvement over the typewriter. The change didn't happen overnight; it took time for both the auto...
...Under a micropayment system, a newspaper might decide to charge a nickel for an article or a dime for that day's full edition or $2 for a month's worth of Web access. Some surfers would balk, but I suspect most would merrily click through if it were cheap and easy enough...
Several GM board members have served since the late 1990s, so they have seen enough of the history of the car industry to know that oil does not stay cheap forever. Two of the longer serving members on the Ford board are members of the founding family. They could hardly have missed the lessons of the early 1970s oil crisis...
...projects that we don't immediately need (or else we would have found another way to pay for them) and hope this gets us out of the recession. Stimulus won't solve the fundamental economic problems of this country: decades of low savings coupled with ravenous consumption, fueled by cheap credit, all of which we are now paying the piper for. Nathan Mintz, Redondo Beach, Calif...
...significant political force and have generated a frustration that will sound familiar to any country dealing with a large influx of migrants from a poorer country. "They take all the jobs," says Shibshankar Chatterjee, a journalist who is writing a book on migration in the northeast. "They are very cheap labor...