Word: cheapness
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...This, my friend, is the Mitsubishi LaserVue-65 in. of blazing, high-definition fury," I said. "Is it a cheap LCD, like the one in your Man Cave? No, it is not. Is it a somewhat better plasma TV, like our neighbor has? Wrong again. The LaserVue is the first HDTV to be powered by lasers!" I paused to let Dorfman think about that, about what the world would be like with such a thing so close to the Man Cave. Then I added quietly, "It's the best home-entertainment display in America...
...valued at about half the price of the U.S. company Home Depot. Now, markets in countries like Russia, China, Vietnam, Brazil and India - all adored by investors until recently - have crashed. But Weiss still isn't ready to plunge in. "I don't think the emerging markets are cheap enough yet," he says. "I don't think people hate them enough...
Please, BlackBerry users, remember back to the time when you were happy to play “Snake” on your cheap Nokia. Some of us use our phones primarily to make phone calls, so do us all a favor, and put yours back in your pockets...
...credit for people buying pure, zero-emission electric cars (GM's Volt would not qualify), with a sliding scale of tax breaks for those buying low-emission vehicles. McCain says he would also give a whopping $300 million prize to whichever company designs an electric-car battery so cheap and long-lasting that it would be a credible replacement for the combustion engine...
...society. We begrudge them cigarettes and cell phones, alcohol and drug use, unmarried sex, and even their ability to have children, forgetting King Lear in Act II: “O, reason not the need!... / Allow not nature more than nature need, / Man life’s as cheap as beast’s.” Instead, let’s look to Act III: “Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just.” In a society...