Word: cheapness
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...darker-skinned Haitians: in 1965, even as the Dominican Republic was embroiled in civil war, Haitians were working in Dominican fields and not the other way around. And while Trujillo at least encouraged economic development in his country, Duvalier père et fils essentially sold their people as cheap sugar-cane cutters to the Dominican Republic...
...films. People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking...
...take a loss. After that, we visited a neighborhood of giant new warehouses. On one side of the street was yet another building with an underwater construction loan that the bank was stuck with. Opposite was a facility that a vulture investor pounced on last year, thinking it was cheap, only to see prices continue their decline. (See the five big questions about retirement...
...oranges, planted in a vast swath of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, which stretch from East Los Angeles to the Arizona and Nevada borders. Starting in the 1970s, that area, now known as the Inland Empire, became a mecca for a new kind of homesteader: young families lured by cheap land and an easy commute to L.A. By 2008, it was home to 4.1 million people and one of the fastest-growing regions in the country...
...Brain Fitness software, which promised to hone his hearing, as well as his memory, for $395. (Yes, you heard that right: $395.) After completing the program's 40 hour-long sessions, he's a believer. "Now I can distinguish the words and hear better," says Marquis. "It's not cheap, but I never felt, Oh, man, I wasted my money." (See the top 10 video games...