Word: cheaping
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...building a new plant economic. Ian Russell, chief executive of Scottish Power, has said prices are still too low for him to invest in building new power stations, but his company did buy an existing power plant earlier this year to help meet demand. Another problem is finding a cheap way to generate power but still abide by E.U. pollution regulations and the Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions. While most countries except France and Finland are phasing out nuclear power, there aren't many attractive alternatives. Coal-fired electricity plants are cheap but notoriously dirty. Natural gas, although cleaner...
...went one favorite, “does not deserve my participation.” My voir dire would be my bully pulpit, a chance to proclaim my dissent in ringing tones, overheard and applauded by dozens of Manhattanites. Plus, I wanted to get out early and buy cheap earrings from the vendors on Canal Street...
...frugality came at a price. Cheap ships can't carry as many instruments as luxury models, so it may take more than one mission to bring back the same science. What's more, the lower price means more frequent breakdowns, as the string of bad luck NASA had with its Mars probes in the 1990s painfully demonstrated. The upside of flying economy is that if one spacecraft is lost, it's a relatively small matter to cobble together another. That thrift-shop technology has succeeded in getting three rovers onto the surface of Mars and will be at work again...
DEAL WITH A MOTIVATED SELLER. Perhaps as many as 5% of sellers are so eager to unload their houses that even in a hot market they'll sell cheap...
Downloads are cheap--just $10 each--but so far language options are limited to French, Spanish and Japanese. And the software works only on new, third-generation iPods using Mac OS X version 10.2 or later (a Windows version is promised soon). Guess the translation for all that is C'est la vie. --By Jeffrey Ressner