Word: priceyness
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...essay on climbing fuel prices [NOTEBOOK, June 4], he wrote, "I have no idea why DVD players are so cheap and house paint costs so much." That's a naive statement, even for Stein. DVD players are cheap because the industry wants you to buy DVDs, which are pricey, at $20 to $30 each. On the other hand, you paint your house only once every five years, so the paint folks have fewer opportunities to gouge you. MICHAEL PODRAZA Chicago...
Modalen isn't the easiest place to wire. Nera has supplied each house with plate-sized antennas allowing families to link to the Net by a radio linkup. (As the town's few residents are scattered over 385 sq km, using copper or fiber-optic cable would be too pricey.) The Internet is connected to a set-top box on a TV, controlled by a wireless keyboard. Modalen's 2 megabits per second is roughly 35 times as fast as conventional modems. Each customer pays $18 a month for the service; the municipality covered the installation costs of nearly...
...rebel Prime Minister Koizumi. Can Tanaka show the way in Nagano? Or will he prove to be a flash in the pan, a trifling, inconsequential political buffoon? Sure, he is clever enough to feed the public what it wants to hear. In Nagano, they'd had their fill of pricey public-works projects, so they applauded Tanaka's decision to stop the building of dams...
Others are catching the acting bug. Author Jonathan Ames appeared in a literary boxing match and ended up with a broken nose. Authors Matthew Klam and Lucinda Rosenfeld did a reading at TSE, an exclusive Madison Avenue shop, donning the store's pricey cashmere togs. Novelist Rick Moody has even served as the opening act for a rock band, the Magnetic Fields...
...September, Scotland's St. Andrews Links (the birthplace of golf), in conjunction with a nearby college, will offer Caddie Connect, the world's only college course in club assistance. Among other topics, you'll study golf etiquette, grooming and how to defuse drunken duffers. Price: $215 for three weeks. Pricey? Note: Tiger Woods' caddie made $1 million last year...