Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Psyched for Ec 10 today? Just remembered that the two-week extension on your term paper expires tomorrow? Well, life is tough. And so, hockey junkies, is this specially prepared mass of trivia. Sure, there are a few easy ones, just to give the fringe fans some cheap, undeserved thrills. But we know better. Let those "acquainted" with the sport get lulled into complacency by the pee-wee league questions...and then get crushed when Judgment Day comes and they can't even tell you that Harvey "Busher" Jackson led the league in scoring...
...prices seem cheap to foreigners -first-class double rooms can go for $120 in London, $180 in Paris and $123 in Tokyo-but they are fast catching up. The most spartan single at the Beverly Wilshire has risen from less than $50 three years ago to $70 now, and doubles run as high as $135. The New York Hilton has just lifted its corporate rate for special repeat customers from $56 to $64 plus taxes for a single room; ordinary customers pay as much as $76, up $6 from last year, for a single and $92 for a double...
...abroad. "The beauty of this thing, says Jim Rugroden, 28, who invented the item when he was a physics student at the University of California at Berkeley, "is that it can go anywhere. Even up hills, apparently, provided the surface is hard and smooth Motoboarding is no cheap thrill, however. A standard Motoboard retails tor the special custom model...
...cost. "Every cheap architect could copy Mies," says Johnson. "He could go to the client and say, I can do a building cheaper than I did it for you last year, because now I have a religion. We have a flat roof and simple factory-made curtain walls. It was a justification for cheapness that took over our cityscapes, and that is what you see in New York today." The universal glass box, cut-rate Mies (for real Mies was real architecture, and too expensively finished for most developers to tolerate), would cover any function: airport, bank, office block, church...
...moon's dusty surface. Both astronauts would pedal while sitting; with a load of scientific gear, they could easily travel several kilometers without unduly exerting themselves. Best of all, while the cost of getting to the moon may be skyhigh, moving around on it should be dust-cheap...