Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...producing Louisiana: "The President ran for office urging deregulation and carried Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma largely because of that position. For him to turn around one year later, point a finger at us and call proponents of deregulation 'energy profiteers' is nothing more than a cheap political shot." The Congressman had a point about Carter's reversal, but the contention that Republican Ford would have carried all three states if Carter had opposed deregulation is highly dubious. Louisiana's Long, mildly critical, urged a "lower level of rhetoric." Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker argued that Carter...
Rhodesia's bottomed-out economy has also enticed a band of bargain hunters seeking a cheap way to live in a style they could not afford anywhere else. Despite the disruptions brought on by the war, they find Rhodesia disarmingly serene-no more troubled than other countries with rural insurgencies, including Viet Nam in the early '60s. Rhodesian products, notably the excellent $1.50 steaks, remain cheap by world standards. Houses and rich farm property are available at fire-sale prices. One foreign resident in Salisbury just paid $42,000 for a six-bedroom house on two acres, complete...
...Clyde, whom the scribes had to leave and go to Cleveland. There also sprang up in the land of Jersey a new castle to which the football Giants and the basketball Nets moved. (But perhaps the loss of the Giants was not mourned, for no one liked the owner, cheap King Mara. Besides, the Giants never won anything--they just gave away all the good players...
...deserved such treatment. There is a difference between pursuing the facts and going after a man. The end also did not ennoble William Safire, the Nixon speechwriter turned columnist who seeks to establish-with the repetitious use of labels like Lancegate -that all politicians are as shabby as Nixon. Cheap-shot comparisons are an old and dubious journalistic device: as if two people who share one trait can be said to share them all. New York magazine got in a worse cheap shot by egregiously referring to Lance as Carter's Bebe Rebozo...
...wrong with the spectacle of Billy Carter. However much Billy trades on his independence, he is, after all, the President's brother, and his attraction depends upon that presidential nimbus. Watergate discredited the presidency, but it does not follow that the office therefore deserves to be treated cheaply. ("Cheap, hell!" Billy might answer. "I'm expensive!") Gerald Ford and his family managed to invest the White House with a relaxed kind of dignity during their tenure. They did not try to sell blankets along Pennsylvania Avenue. Billy Carter is hardly subverting the Republic by being tacky...