Word: cheaping
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...Ending the Free Ride For decades, ranchers and miners could count on the U.S. government to provide cheap access to public lands. No more. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt bucked opposition from Western politicians and persuaded the President and Congress to boost low grazing and mining fees...
...Europeans and Japanese are still miles ahead of Detroit in technology, aesthetics and ergonomics. Most of the cars coming out of Detroit look like cheap knock-offs of better-made foreign models. The bottom line is that the Big Three still can't build good cars. They don't have to; they'll always have the customer with the buy-American mentality to fall back...
...fellow marines never get the conflict they want to fight. When the war ends without climax, the soldiers fire their rifles in the air in a masturbatory barrage. As the soldiers go home, it’s clear the Marine Corps has been a cocktease and a cheap date; it dehumanized and psychologically damaged its men. Although Mendes references ideas from other war movies, he donates new ones to the genre. When the soldiers march through a night lit only by oil well fires, he gives us a harrowing tableau just as apocalyptic as anything Coppola imagined. However, Mendes...
...feathered and gingham racks of clothes, asking each other for price checks on jumbo Afros or extra pairs of bejeweled ruby slippers, in men’s sizes. “It’s the only place I know of where you can find cute vintage purses and cheap pleather go go boots all under one roof,” said an employee. Fletcher is determined to keep it that way. “No matter what happens, The Garment District has a right to continue operating and plans to stay here for a long time...
...dead giveaway that you are a) cashed-up and b) from out of town. If you don't want every shopkeeper in KL rubbing hands with avaricious glee at your approach, we suggest you cover up these emblems, or better still, ditch the cart and carry a cheap tote like everyone else...