Word: suckered
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...case of groceries, Priceline's inability to make deals with such major manufacturers as Procter & Gamble and Kraft has meant that customers lured by the 90-day free-trial period have found prices rising after they signed on. "I think what they do is sucker you in with a really low price," says Amy Anuszewski, a software engineer in Reading, Pa. "Once you're hooked, they start charging a monthly fee and higher prices...
...general, I hasten to say, I'm a sucker for baby pictures. If I run into someone who has a small child and does not display pictures instantly, I immediately get suspicious. "Has the kid turned mean and ugly, or what?" I ask. Newborns, though, are quite a different matter. To put this as delicately as I can, newborn babies are not always beautiful...
...regret your answer almost instantly. Prediction can be a sucker's game; appreciation is where it's really at. You like Rah's music, that you know. She seems true to her roots--you saw that up close. The glossy photos in perfumy magazines, the Hype Williams-directed videos, the sound-bite TV appearances--all of that seems thin and sugary, like the glaze on a doughnut. Answering the door in a fuzzy bathrobe, that's real, that's true, that's hip-hop. In that one moment in her graffiti-scarred hallway, Rah was as big a star...
...will attest to that. The Pentagon, the CDC and the NIH are all working furiously on a new, safer vaccine, as well as studying ways to make the current one easier on the arm than it is now. Which would only serve to make me feel like a sucker if they, or Congress, get their act together sometime next fall...
...spend last December stockpiling Champagne? Sucker. Instead of getting ready for a bubbly crisis that never came, you should have been stashing away the harder stuff, tequila. Since last year, farmers in and around the tequila-producing Mexican state of Jalisco have been facing shortages of agave, the spiky-leafed member of the lily family from which the spirit is distilled. Agave's price has leaped from about $40 a ton a year ago to a high of $560 a ton last December. If the shortage continues--and the agave plant's grandfatherly maturation time of eight to 12 years...