Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural gas and electricity bills savage their budgets, Americans in great numbers are discovering that there's no fuel like an old fuel. Specifically, wood. Not only is it in plentiful supply and an infinitely renewable resource;* it is relatively cheap-or, for those who are willing to chop their own, even free...
Clyde C. Ferguson, visiting professor of Law and former U.S. ambassador to Uganda, opened his statement saying, "the first factor about the South African economy is its enormous profitability." He added rates of return on capital investment are high because of the cheap black labor...
...countryside, Artist Müller takes characters and acreage through the incursions of a railroad, the depredations of bulldozer, drill and crane, and, ultimately, in the fall of 1972, to those hallmarks of Western civilization, the discount store and the parking meter. Yet Müller never stoops to cheap nostalgia or self-righteous despair. Each page is keyed to a child's comprehension; each of the meticulous landscapes shows compassion as well as irony in the face of the familiar. A companion suite, The Changing City, shows the same process in an urban environment, from the calm, dignified...
...final event of the day, a cheap claiming race on the inner-turf track at New York's Belmont Park. With a mixed bag of nags running on a spongy grass surface, it was not the easiest race for bettors to sort out, and by the time the field of twelve horses paraded to the post, rain was falling steadily. So it was understandable that many fans had started to drift toward the exits. But something happened during the ninth race on Sept. 23 that stopped the exodus and sent horseplayers back to stare at the tote board with...
Gerard seems an unlikely candidate for such shenanigans. As a top track veterinarian, he tended thoroughbreds for some of America's best-known owners and trainers. But in recent years, Gerard has augmented his lucrative practice by importing South American horses. He buys cheap and sells high: Lebón was purchased for $1,600 in Uruguay and sold to Jack Morgan, a former assistant of Gerard's, for $10,000. Some racing people became wary of Gerard's activities. Says a trainer at one premier stable: "When I came to work here, my owner told...