Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family cellar, when you get a load of how Divine keeps her behemoth of a mother in a baby's crib. You might just find youself in unrepressed stitches. If not, look at it this way--you can finally do something you always wanted to do but were too cheap to carry out: walk out in the middle...
...outsiders, broadcasting has always looked a little crazy. But this year it really is crazy, and the February sweeps have blown down Network Row like Hurricane Agnes. Robert Wood, a former CBS president turned producer (The Cheap Show), refers to them as "the goddamn sweeps." He complains that "there shouldn't be such weeks in the TV calendar. They are artificial and destructive, and they contribute to the general feeling of paranoia." Like most other pernicious institutions, the sweeps still perform a function. Using two relatively small samples, Nielsen keeps regular tabs on how well the networks are doing...
...would chalk it up to a cheap publicity stunt--very cheap," Achin said...
These sentiments outraged Mary J. Sullivan of Roslindale. The Globe should stop printing "cheap-shot letters" about "a man who had an illustrious and compassionate history." Besides, Curley deserved more than a river named after him. Don't do it, was Mary J.'s vote. Mary Sullivan Shea, though, was all in favor of the idea: "James M. Curley was a great man, a good man." George Donelan, a former Boston College football star (center and team captain, 1945), agreed in rhyme: "A fine idea deserving the support of one and all/ To the grandest mayor...
Because U.S. growth will be sluggish this year, imports are expected to decline. Exports should rise because the cheap dollar makes U.S. cars, jets, grain, and other goods bargains in international markets. Those factors should trim the nation's trade deficit from a horrendous $28.5 billion last year to a merely very bad $22 billion this year. But the dollar probably will remain weak for a variety of reasons: a surfeit of $600 billion in greenbacks is sloshing around the world as a result of inflationary excesses; foreign governments are weary of spending their own currency to support...