Word: priceyness
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...course, that was decades ago. Gambling at the clubs can get pricey nowadays, especially when some members exchange small fortunes in one night. “Before it was just males smoking some cigars and drinking some beer while playing some poker. No one lost more than $20 a night,” the grad says. “And it was hard to win more than that. Nowadays, guys [in final clubs] gamble lots of money—hundreds of dollars instead of tens. I think that now it’s getting out of control for some people...
...kids now consider putting on a sweater a viable alternative to goosing the thermostat. They understand when we pass up pricey treats at the grocery store that it is not because their parents are determined never to have "anything good to eat," as the kids have charged, but because we need to feed the whole family for an entire month...
...problem is that ruggedized laptops are often heavy--and pricey. That Rough Rider III runs $5,000. The good news is that manufacturers have begun courting the consumer market. Panasonic, the field leader, now offers so-called semi-ruggeds. The Toughbook 72, introduced last fall with a Pentium III 700-MHz processor, is water-resistant, can survive a 1-ft. drop onto concrete and sells for $2,700. The Toughbook 37 Ultra-Slim--just 1 in. thick and 4.4 lbs.--is around $2,000. Ruggednotebooks' XE-620 runs about $3,000. Other companies in the space: Melard, Itronix and Dolch...
...same sentence.") "I was personally most turned off," she confides of her first year on the job, "by the Junior Statesmen of America and by kids who started investment clubs at their schools." Nor did she look kindly on applications that seemed too polished, sensing the handiwork of a pricey college consultant...
...secession of an entire group of Americans that declares itself a nation--different, cooler, better--through its brands: Maglite, Volvo, Apple. Alternative consumption, if you will. Is it any surprise that this market includes people who, as teenagers, were combing record bins for 12-in., imported Depeche Mode singles--pricey, sure, for just a few minutes of music, but of such higher quality...