Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the rapid proliferation of PCP is that the drug is cheap and available. For $100, a handy amateur can manufacture PCP worth $100,000 on the street...
...reason for the decline is the popularity of competing resorts. While the number of hotel rooms in Miami Beach fell by 3,000 during the past decade, Las Vegas added 15,000 and Hawaii, prospering on cheap air charters, increased its total by more than 27,000 rooms. Low-cost tourist packages ($319 for travel and lodging in London; only $355 for a return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added...
...money. Curiously, the Syrians also had the same dream-but in the form of a nightmare. Last week Damascus officials were worried that a peace agreement might lead to a predatory kind of Zionist expansionism, with Israel seeking Middle East markets for consumer goods produced by cheap Arab labor...
Complaints that Japan is flooding world markets with cheap exports are hardly new, but never have they been as vehement as this year. With good reason: partly because Japan's home economy-the third biggest in the world, after the U.S. and the Soviet Union-has shown little growth, its industrialists have launched a spectacularly successful export drive. Despite a rapid climb in the value of the yen, which should raise the price of Japanese goods in world markets, the nation's surplus of exports over imports is heading toward a record $15 billion this year, draining money...
This is no time to rant and rave. This is no time to talk about "home jobs," or how long it took to fix the hole in the B.U. crease. This is no time to talk about dirty play, cheap shots, or what appeared to be a night-long mugging of George Hughes. And this is certainly no time to be thinking of what would have happened with Brian Petrovek in the nets...