Word: cheaping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Some areas of the new site are way off-kilter. The local dining guide for Los Angeles called a cheap Vietnamese veggie joint in Reseda named Vinh Loi Tofu its highest rated restaurant, based upon a single review. Vinh Loi Tofu? In a major city that boasts Spago, Michaels, Koi, A.O.C., the Ivy, Crustacean and dozens of other amazing eateries? Narrowing my search to the TIME bureau's zip code of 90025, the Top 5 included a Starbucks located seven miles down the road. Some software obviously needs to be tweaked and some users' palates upgraded...
...course, without cheap shots, there would be no Borat. Could Cohen get away with blatantly mocking many other nations? His gay Austrian character on “Da Ali G Show,” Bruno, is a ridiculous, hyper-flamboyant character, but he isn’t an indictment of all of Austria, just as Ali G and his “Staines massive” gang don’t represent the entirety of England...
...business climate is lousy or something has to be done about the company's internal culture or its markets. That leads to frenzied choices." The fruits of longer programs that set specific goals stand a much better chance of sticking with a participant, Boyatzis argues. That doesn't come cheap though. Conversant's course, featuring three weeklong sessions over eight months, costs $15,500 a head, pretty much the industry standard...
...behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried to speak, he got a sharp jab in the ribs. His captors emptied his pockets and took his cheap wristwatch and his belt and shoes. As the car sped away, one man put a hood over Waddah's head and, using a plastic tie, bound his wrists behind his back. All that happened in a few moments, and Waddah says he could only think, "This is a mistake--they...
...investors make. Famed portfolio manager Bill Miller has dubbed it the "five-year psychological cycle." Investors want to own today what they should have owned five years ago. Currently, investors are pining for energy and commodities, but they should have owned them in the early 2000s, when they were cheap and unloved. Instead, investors coveted the high-flying tech and telecom stocks, which would have been smart purchases in the mid-1990s--except that investors were busy chasing bank stocks, which would have been shrewd purchases in 1990. You get the idea...