Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rule pitted students—who vowed to drink regardless—against College administrators who argued that dangerous binge drinking would decrease without the ready supply of cheap beer...
...Where the women are hot and the beer is cheap,” adds Jacob H. Welch ’06, also from Georgia. “You don’t see many camouflage hats up here,” he says nostalgically. Brother Jimmy’s, the new restaurant and bar that has planted its cowboy boots in the former stomping ground of the House of Blues, is making Click, Welch and other members of Harvard’s newly founded Southern Society more than a little homesick...
...goes when you’ve gone the cheap route. Still, even those who tired of trying to figure out how to eat chicken wings with a modicum of classiness could find solace in the plentiful duck confit quesadillas. As my foodie companion informed me, duck, fattiest of birds, can sometimes be too oily when prepared as a confit—that is, cooked in its own fat—but here, the tortilla reigns in the fattiness, buffered by the avocado salsa. The result, if not exactly health-conscious, neatly melds the populist bar-side snack with prime ingredients...
...fish. Hu Hongyi, a 30-year-old accountant, brings his wife and 10-month-old son to the eatery every three or four days. "I like the flavors and it's reasonably priced," he says. Local high school student Wang Hongting, another KFC habitu?, says, "The food isn't cheap, but it's kind of fashionable." Indeed, during the restaurant's grand opening in September, eight security guards had to be brought in to help manage the swarm of customers. "This happens every time KFC opens a new store," says Wang Weiming, manager of the Qiandaohu...
...touted by the company as "like having your own personal lighting crew"). It wasn't long before these industry-only cosmetics were being talked about more than the photo studios that produced them, and the brothers decided to manufacture them on a commercial scale. SmashBox cosmetics don't come cheap, but for those who can't afford to travel with a Hollywood stylist (or a lighting crew), they could be the next best thing...