Word: chump
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...need to shift those stickers to the sales floor. "It used to be that if you were doing a liquidation, you were the only one out there," Fried says. "Now, there's much more competition. You have to be sharper." And ready to sell a 40-inch plasma for chump change...
Like Ginsu knives and the George Foreman grill, the Snuggie has become synonymous with direct-response advertising, the preferred industry parlance for commercials that feature a toll-free number for placing orders. And thanks to the recession, such "as seen on TV" companies are purchasing more airtime for chump change...
...Ginsu knives or the George Foreman grill, the Snuggie has become synonymous with "direct-response advertising" - the preferred industry parlance for commercials that feature a toll-free 800 number for placing orders. And thanks to the recession, such "as-seen-on-TV" companies are purchasing more air time for chump change...
...Kashkari a chump?' REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH CUMMINGS, questioning Neel Kashkari, manager of the Treasury Department's $700 billion rescue plan, after bailout recipient AIG spent $503 million on executive bonuses...
...didn't. The debate went on; the candidates stayed on message; the pundits all agreed that it wasn't a "game-changer." You did miss the largest bank failure in American history, not to mention a $25 billion bailout of the auto industry, but that's chump change these days, right? You might not have heard that investment banks are now officially extinct, but basically the economy is on the same precipice it was on last week...