Word: chump
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...proud man is usually called upon to release a public statement that his son, the chump, intends to stand by the bride, assuming he can find...
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...pays his U.S. factory workers an average wage of $12 an hour, plus benefits, compared with 40¢ an hour for a worker in mainland China, where 76% of U.S. athletic footwear originates. The tax breaks Congress just passed for U.S. companies to keep manufacturing jobs at home amount to chump change given that gap. Overall, the U.S. footwear industry has shed nearly 200,000 jobs since the early 1970s, leaving fewer than 21,000. More to the point: What teenager clamoring for Air Jordans really cares where the shoe is stitched...
...ease of getting an initiative on the ballot, in this election alone California voters can vote on 16 propositions, ranging from health policy to Indian gaming, from stem cell research to criminal law. By the next election, 16 might be considered chump change. In 1998, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) reported that between 1976 and 1996, voters voted on 106 statewide ballot initiatives, up from 29 during the previous 20 years...
...fact, Bush has spent 2.3 billion nickels ($115 million) on transit security in the past two years, even if that is chump change compared with the aviation-security budget: 106 billion nickels ($5.3 billion this year alone). As for New York City subway trains, they ran normally during the Republican National Convention, except for a few occasions when trains were not allowed to stop at stations near the venue because of bomb scares...