Word: cheaping
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...complicated." Telling a single mother who works full-time that she should take a brisk walk in the inner city after work each day is not the most practical advice - she's unlikely to do it. And the stressed-out, sedentary American lifestyle - not to mention the overabundance of cheap, high-calorie foods - makes it difficult for people to eat as healthfully or exercise as much as they should...
...warming up for his next disruptive act, hitting mobile operators where they really hurt: in the voice business. Polk is prodding consumers and businesses to make cheap Internet-based VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls through the Cloud's hot spots. VOIP has already eaten into the traditional fixed-line business. It's now poised to do the same thing to mobile operators, threatening to take a chunk of what London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype...
...Whenever I read remarks like those, I am reminded of the fact that only 4% of our DNA sequences are different from those of chimpanzees, and that like our fellow primates we are but dumb mammals, powerless in the presence of cheap stimulants (Salt! Sugar! Fats!). The arguments we use to justify our dependence on them are callow and banal - why, for example, is eating healthily equated with being "boring," when nothing could be more boring than being dead? Why do we obsessively focus on the one-in-a-million 90-year-olds who survive against all odds, and ignore...
...This is a mixture of shopping malls and retail and wholesale stalls in their hundreds. Call the Tourist Information Center in Dongdaemun, tel: (82-2) 2236 9135, if you have queries. It takes about 20 minutes by taxi to get there from Noryangjin, and if you're looking for cheap sneakers and inexpensive clothing, this is the place to go. You can haggle to the wee hours of the morning. For a nightcap, head to Itaewon, near the U.S. military base, where there are plenty of bars and clubs...
...making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, standout content" and the need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which, as Fox Television has proved, tend to gather at the bottom of the taste pyramid. Consider the huge popularity of reality TV, which is cheap to produce and capable of provoking controversy that hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants...