Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cheap Shot. Kiritsis pushed Hall along for four blocks, yelling, "Stay back, stay back!" at astonished pedestrians and gathering police. He then commandeered a patrol car and forced Hall to drive to Kiritsis' two-room flat in Crestwood Village West, seven miles away. Once barricaded in his apartment with Hall as hostage, Kiritsis warned the police that the place was booby-trapped with dynamite. Then came his demands. From Meridian, he wanted immediate cancellation of a $130,000 mortgage that he had taken out months before in the hope of developing a 17-acre plot in Indianapolis into...
...what Korea sells most of all is cheap labor, paid the second lowest wages in East Asia. In 1975, 81.9 per cent of the workers earned under $62 per month. The official figure for the cost of living for a family of 5 is $85 per month (Korean National Tax Bureau). There are no unions, so strikes, no enforcement of environmental regulations or workers' health and safety provisions. South Korea is consequently highly attractive to foreign traders and corporations. In 1974 its foreign trade accounted for 74 per cent of its GNP; whereas for even so great a trading nation...
...Absence of Cheap Goals: See c), and films of Petrovek in last year's Beanpot opener. 'Nuff said...
...turns out, slick interpretations like racial guilt amount to nothing more than cheap shots that totally miss the mark when dealing with Weil. Although she flirted with the thought of converting to Christianity in the years before her death, allegedly telling a friend while in London "if one day I am completely deprived of my will, in a coma, then they ought to baptize me," Simone Petrement makes clear in this thoughtful biography that the Weil family never either stressed nor denied their religious and cultural ancestry...
Clarice Taylor, who has been singing for a little while in Boston moves into Cambridge's greatest jazz showcase, the Rise Club, in the heart of Central Square, this weekend. Concerts are a pleasure at the Rise, where the cover is cheap and the shows only cost you a drink...