Word: cheaping
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DIED. FREDDIE LAKER, 83, ebullient airline-industry underdog and visionary who in the 1970s pioneered the concept of cheap fares for the masses with his short-lived but much admired Skytrain service; in Hollywood, Fla. Launched in 1978, the London-based service encouraged flyers to cross the Atlantic casually, without even booking a flight. (If a flight was full, passengers simply waited for the next one.) Though his company disbanded in 1982 after bigger airlines slashed their fares, Laker became a hero to entrepreneurs including his fellow Briton Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson...
...THAKSIN UNDER FIRE? When the Prime Minister first took office in 2001, Thailand was still struggling to overcome the Asian financial crisis. Thaksin boosted domestic demand with cheap loans and government handouts. By 2003, Thailand was leading the pack of Southeast Asian tigers. The same year, Thaksin declared war on Thailand's drug trade, cracking down on suppliers and small-time dealers. Over 2,500 of them died-killed, said government officials, by other criminals. (Human-rights groups claimed the killings were carried out by Thai security forces.) The campaign was welcomed by ordinary Thais fed up with the prevalence...
...diners, we went to greasy spoons, we went to falafel places. It was really down and dirty. I was broke, too. I had no money at all. I was at NYU, putting myself through school, working like four jobs. So mostly it was just cup of coffee, glass of cheap wine. I still can't drink red wine. I can never drink it again, because it was just cheap red wine. I had a hangover for probably a whole year...
Tragically, beyond simply honoring King, several orators used the forum as an excuse to take pot shots at President Bush, who sat in attendance. In so doing, they upstaged an event that was intended to celebrate both an exemplary life and its legacy solely as a means to score cheap, political points...
...bench for the next five minutes with a zero in the column he did need and a two in the one he didn’t. If this night was to be a celebration of Stehle’s career, it would be almost fitting that cheap fouls played a key role.“I picked up two dumb fouls,” Stehle said. “Typical me.”With its captain gone, the Crimson struggled to score points, as senior center Brian Cusworth missed a number of finishes from close range, while junior guard...