Word: cheapness
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...both critical praise and a 24-hour police guard. Saviano - who reported from within the Camorra, Italy's biggest Mafia clan with a global reach into fashion, real estate, waste disposal and drugs - says the rioters are among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants caught up in a brutal cheap-labor system the Mafia runs for legitimate businesses from Milan to Naples...
...Time Warner Cable to agree to pay to retransmit Fox's free over-the-air signal, suggesting that broadcasters could someday operate more like cable channels (with cable subscribers paying for it). Reality shows and newsmagazines are, like the Leno show, devices to fill prime time on the cheap - and they'll fill some of the vacuum left by Leno...
...catch is that each adjustment to the new, cheap world risks losing people who liked the old, expensive one. Broadcast TV once thrived by pitching a big tent. But now the various poles of that tent - Jay fans, Conan fans, etc. - don't particularly want to share the same campsite, and they no longer have to. (See the top 10 late-night jokes...
...gains: Cash America and EZCorp are currently projecting earnings growth of up to 20% in fiscal 2010. The three companies' stocks improved in 2009 - Cash America climbed 28%, First Cash rose 16% and EZCorp was up 13% - and analysts expect the rally to continue this year. "You've got cheap stocks growing at 20% a year," says Coffey, "so the stage is set for a pretty good...
...more than 20 years now - and it's no surprise as to how we got this way. Our cars, computers and 40-in. TVs have all conspired to take the physical exercise out of our lives and replace it with round-the-clock sitting. Combine sedentary living with cheap food and supersize portions (the U.S. now produces enough food every day for each of us to consume 3,800 calories, never mind that we need only about 2,350 for a healthy diet), and there was no place for the needle on the scale to go but up. Now, according...