Word: cheapness
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...Well, I don't know. A lot of cheap sh--. People just make up stuff. What are you going to do? Sue everybody that prints something that's wrong? I mean, I can't imagine that anybody is that interested in anyone else's private life. I can only figure out that they don't have one of their...
...These are, like, respectable Muslim women—why do they want to clean your house?” Mustafa said. “And they say, ‘We’ll clean your house for a cheap price.’ They’ll emphasize “your,” and you’d be like...
...displays showcased Irish monuments, Irish people, and Irish ales. Employees handed out pamphlets on study-abroad and travel. Women in fitted and fringed orange sportsuits handed out samples of Bailey's toffee liqueur. Nearly blocking a speaker at the front of the stage, an eight-foot tall poster advertised cheap flights between the two capitals. Tourism Ireland has since 1995 been promoting St. Patrick's Day parades in cities around the world such as Tokyo, Singapore and Moscow. This year two cities were added to the roster: Beijing, and the digital world of "Second Life," which hosted a "virtual parade...
Movies made in these settings are, relatively speaking, cheap to make (western Canada is a perfect stand-in for the western U.S.) require smallish casts and in the dreariness of their first shots signal seriousness of intent. I don't care if we're talking No Country for Old Men or the more recent, low-budget hopelessness of Snow Angels - the seasoned moviegoer settles in for a long trek in a pickup truck, stopping only for depressed meals in dubious diners, trailer park sleepovers and a touch of concluding violence...
...environmental entrepreneurs - the same class of people who brought us the Internet and biotech - those solutions won't leave the laboratory without political support. Right now there are countless smart new ways to get energy that won't destroy the Earth, but they're not price competitive with cheap fossil fuel power because they lack economic scale. As solar panels or wind turbines are produced in bulk, the price will fall - but that won't happen until government sends a strong signal to producers and energy consumers. And the only way to do that, Krupp argues, is through a carbon...