Word: cheaping
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Ireland pounced on the global economic boom of the 1990s, luring billions of dollars with low taxes, cheap labor and an English-speaking workforce. The boom's collapse also hit close to home - perhaps most dramatically in the case of the troubled Irish drug company Elan, which has seen share prices plunge 90%, is the subject of an accounting investigation and is struggling to raise $1 billion from asset sales to stay afloat. But as Elan's chairman and CEO Donal Geaney stepped down last week, along with deputy chairman Tom Lynch, their gloom had not really spread...
...market will come back eventually. But that has a way of taking years, even without a crisis of ethical confidence. Stocks didn't return to their 1929 levels until 1940; they took 30 years, till 1996, to return to the peak reached in 1966. Many stocks still aren't cheap, third quarters are often painful, and the bears, at least, think there's more bad news to come...
...Spanish also share my perception that America wants to attack Iraq not to secure democracy in a country ruled by an evil tyrant, but to get to more cheap oil and improve the Bush approval ratings come election time. They, like almost everyone else in Europe, are very wary of an attack and don’t think another war would help anyone. I was very impressed that my Spanish teacher had heard about the time Cheney—on behalf of the oil company Halliburton—held secret discussions with the Taliban about running an oil pipeline through...
...next target of the forces of terror the nation finds itself battling. Consequently, this midday walk—on July 5th, no less, during one of the government’s vague terror warnings—seems almost stupidly risky. It’s like streaking through midtown naked. Cheap thrills in New York...
...street criminals are interested almost exclusively in semiautomatics, preferring their superior firepower. (Semiautomatics hold at least seven and often as many as ten or twelve rounds of ammunition.) Gun traffickers like to peddle cheap semiautomatics to teenagers because they can tack on a hefty mark-up and still offer a weapon that costs less than an upscale gun like a Ruger or Smith and Wesson semiautomatic. That's why inexpensive semiautomatics dominate the top ten list. As it happens, many of the companies on that list have links to George Jennings, founder of the now-defunct Raven Arms...