Word: priceyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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However, the past 5 years have been a different story. With more money to spend than George W., the Yankees have courted the like of Sammy Sosa and Randy Johnson. Just this year, Denny Neagle, David Justice, and Jose Canseco were added mid-season as pricey, trophy players...
...were flooded with so many vituperative phone calls and all-caps e-mails that the CEO immediately cancelled its run. Mothers angrily denounced the luxury car company for sending the wrong message to their daughters. Fathers didn't appreciate being portrayed as assholes who buy their daughters affection with pricey gifts. And most offended, of course, were the "Daddy's Girls" themselves who found that the ad hit too close to home. The problem, of course, is that the creators of the ads made all the wrong assumptions. First, they made the mistake of believing the target audience secure enough...
...laws were dropped in 1996, prices in a free market have soared far beyond the reach of many residents, creating a smaller crisis among GSAS students who must survive through the five or six years it typically takes to complete their dissertations. They live on University stipends in the pricey world of Cambridge and Somerville housing...
Getting students organized used to mean buying a Trapper Keeper and hoping homework didn't fall out. But this fall a handful of schools have supplied students with the same wireless Palm Pilots used by hyper-scheduled executives. More portable and less pricey--$200, vs. about $2,000--than the laptops doled out by schools in recent years, the hand-held computers give students Internet access and allow teachers to "beam" them their grades and homework assignments. Add-ons include a "due yesterday" feature that dings when schoolwork is tardy and an attachable probe that measures pH in science labs...
Other patients also face difficult choices because hospices don't usually offer pricey procedures such as dialysis, radiation or chemotherapy--even when designed merely to palliate symptoms. George Thielman, a retired printer from Chicago, didn't want to stop life-prolonging dialysis after a cancerous kidney was removed and the other began to fail. "Ultimately, he died in a nursing home, a place none of us wanted him to be," his daughter Betsy says. "We were always operating in crisis mode...