Word: cheaping
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...hockey was physical, but not cheap,” Ruggiero said. “And it was definitely comforting to see Billy back...
...Roger Cheng, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Vaghar was an intern at a local law firm offering her apartment for cheap because she was headed to Yale for a joint JD-MBA program. To Theo Vanderzee, a 26-year-old consultant, she was a paralegal from Brooklyn going to New York University Law School next year. And to others, she was an undergraduate at the College...
There was a cheap metaphor to be had in the remarkable moment when Safia al-Souhail, who had just voted in the Iraqi elections, and Janet Norwood, whose U.S. Marine son was killed in Iraq, embraced during the President's State of the Union speech last week. Norwood was holding her son's dog tags, which became entangled in al-Souhail's cuff. The two struggled at disentanglement. Laura Bush had to help them. It was an image with some resonance, to be sure...
...Then why is it cheap to see it as a metaphor? Because nothing should detract from the emotional truth of the moment, the magnitude of Norwood's loss, the exhilaration of al-Souhail's ballot. Yes, disentanglement will be difficult. And, yes, we shouldn't "overhype" the election, as John Kerry clumsily suggested. But this is not a moment for caveats. It is a moment for solemn appreciation of the Iraqi achievement-however it may turn out-and for hope...
...These efforts haven't come cheap: the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development estimates the economic loss of all that poultry at just under 0.5% of GDP, or $195 million. Nguyen Vau Be and his family in rural Long An province raised 100 ducks to pay for their holiday celebrations and food this year, but when the birds became sick recently, they were forced to kill them. "There's no Tet for us this year," says wife Truong Thi Dua, watching as the live ducks are tossed onto a large bonfire. The family is being compensated with a total...