Word: cheaping
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...paid a terrible price--knowledge about who we become under pressure, in public and private. People talked about living on a higher plane, with an intensity of fear and faith and gratitude, when it was easy to salute and hard to sleep and nothing was bland or phony or cheap. But we could not live there forever; it was like the day you graduate from high school or your first child is born or your father dies--days of power and insight that grab you for a moment and, when they let you go, leave marks on your skin...
...wait, cell phones in and computers out. Random passengers stand spread-eagled while strangers say to them softly, "Now I'm going to run my hands around your waist. Is that all right?" Somewhere unseen, a food-service worker is assembling meals headed for first class with cheap plastic knives and sharp, pointed metal forks. And all the while the public-address system hectors us to "report any suspicious activity...
They do, however, in restaurants. Soft drinks are now delivered in one-liter cups, observes Judith Stern, vice president of the American Obesity Association. Even the venerable Joy of Cooking has capitulated to the trend; recipes that used to provide meals for six now feed only four. So cheap are carbohydrates and fats that supersizing costs the food industry next to nothing...
...their successes, the partners of TPG have had their share of flops. They bought several confectionary businesses, including part of Kraft Foods' candy division for which they paid $200 million in 1995. The candy investment was bankrupt by 1999 because they failed to anticipate a flood of cheap competing products from Mexico. Their attempt to turn catalog clothier J. Crew into a bricks-and-mortar retailer resulted in an identity crisis that has alienated loyal customers...
HOMETOWN HANKERINGS Nanjing boasts some of the best universities in China and a sizable population of foreign students. As a result, there is also a great demand for cheap, Western-style food. I know because, six years ago, I was one of these culture-shocked scholars myself. At that time, the only Western choice available was McDonald's. What we would have given for the Skyways Bakery in my day! This inconspicuous caf? and deli is tucked among the Chinese restaurants and vendors lining West Hankou Street, offering classic homesickness remedies such as roast beef sandwiches and Italian ice cream...