Word: cheaping
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...computers in 1976 were room-size machines with Defense Department--size price tags, but Wozniak had been tinkering with a new design, and his computer was different. It wasn't much to look at--just a bunch of chips screwed to a piece of plywood--but it was small, cheap and easy to use, and Jobs had noticed the stir it caused when they took it to a local computer club. "He said, 'We'll make it for 20 bucks, sell it for 40 bucks!'" Wozniak remembers. "I kind of didn't think we'd do it." Jobs came...
These are the features of the new Clifford Matrix RS3, easily the most advanced remote-control and alarm system yet devised for cars. It doesn't come cheap: installation costs range from $600 to $900. For what it's worth, Clifford will pay your insurance deductible if your car is stolen on its watch...
...seven small receivers, or clients. Five can be wireless, and each can power a pair of wired speakers. MusicCast can simultaneously transmit different music to, say, the kitchen, den and two bedrooms. You can also compile custom CDs from the server to play elsewhere. This family jukebox isn't cheap: list price for the server and one client will be $2,800; additional clients, $600 each...
...started out?at age 15?drawing for famous British comics The Dandy and The Beano. Even now, after stints as both a Ralph Lauren designer and a Hong Kong-based corporate artist, he has not forgotten his first love: witness the deliciously twisted (and unpublished) comic strip called Cheap Charlie: the Mental Moon, featuring a hapless backpacker adrift in psycho-tropical Thailand...
...want to live with. But our utopia-seeking, social-climbing search for the perfect blocking group leads us to overlook friendship in favor of cultivating useful connections. Negotiating one’s way into blocking with the token first-year celebrities justifies any amount of back-stabbing and cheap flattery. After all, FM says that blocking is “a time of dastardly intrigue, two-faced treachery and endless manipulation...