Word: cheaping
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...Even 12 health code violations—including a failure to be “vermin proof”—won’t keep Harvard students away from cheap Thai food at 9 Tastes. (“12 Health Violations? Bah! Those Nine Tastes are Delicious...
...uninitiated, here’s how a Craigslist hook-up works: people looking for “nsa” (no strings attached) fun can locate a page for the desired city and sexual orientation. Respondents e-mail anonymous addresses, and, if there is mutual interest, cheap, slutty sex can be enjoyed within minutes. In theory, at least...
...possible that these stores are becoming--egads!--cheap chic, as Target was a few years ago? Consultant Wolfe thinks so. "It's almost cool now to say 'I bought it at Penney's,'" he says. Suzanne O'Callahan, 35, a mother of four and a regular Kohl's shopper, certainly agrees. "I just walked through Macy's and didn't find anything, but I've been here for about an hour already," she said, her arms full of clothes, on a recent afternoon at the new Jersey City store. "I always shop at Kohl's. And so do my friends...
...Change the System. Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. The only real long-term answer to inequality is to provide a better educational system for the poor, and I mean really better: new facilities, longer school days and school years, the best college-prep classes (to lure scholars from the whiter parts of town), and significant salary bonuses for teachers who choose the toughest neighborhoods, for starters. This would require nothing less than a revolution in public education. We would have to stop funding public schools with local property taxes. The states should finance the system, spending...
MISS POTTER The movies are ever awash in cheap, uplifting sentiment, which is to the genteel audience what cheap, degrading violence is to adolescents: the turn-on that dares not speak its name. So it's somewhat grudgingly that we recommend Miss Potter...