Word: cheaping
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...role, so it carries much more psychological weight." Indeed, Asian nations have reacted to the mere prospect of shortage with something close to hysteria. The Philippines government has threatened to charge rice hoarders with economic sabotage - a crime punishable by life imprisonment. In Manila last week, armed soldiers distributed cheap bags of rice from the backs of military trucks to residents queuing in the midday sun. In Thailand, the world's largest rice exporter, some stores are limiting sales to three bags per family to prevent shoppers from emptying shelves...
...they’re certainly not the only two clubs with beef. 1) The Catholic Student Association vs. the Chinese Students Association. The CSAs are tired of people confusing their events—that wine is not to celebrate Chinese New Year. And it’s not cheap. 2) The Harvard Advocate vs. The Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. For a publication whose logo is a winged-horse, the Advocate contains far too little magic and far too few spaceships. 3) Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Creative Anachronism vs. Current Magazine. What’s so special about the present...
...program will subsidize the cost of household ceramic water filters that are simple, cheap, and effective at ridding the water of most bacteria,” Norman says, adding that an important part of the project is connecting with the people they work with and forming lasting partnerships with the local communities...
...Zealand's eight political parties support the deal, but polls show that fewer than half of voters do. Critics fear a flood of cheap goods and farm produce, and point to China's poor record on the environment and human rights. United Future party leader Peter Dunne is boycotting the Beijing signing ceremony in protest at China's crackdown in Tibet, but says abandoning the pact would be "a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face...
...story” features a reporter infiltrating a honeybee colony while disguised as an “unpollinated daffodil,” while a photo essay explores the outsourcing of the “American lava lamp industry to the islands of Indonesia, where lava is cheap, plentiful, and harvested by thousands of natives.” A spread features a picture of a lion composed of many smaller pictures of human breasts, described by the Lampoon Web site as “Boobs you can look at in the dentist’s office...