Word: thrifts
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...Vintage: it’s always cool to say you stole it from the parentals’ closet, but even if your parents didn’t wear Armani or awesome graphic tees, you can always head to a nearby thrift store and scrounge for bargains...
...Olympic projects, it was hoped, would mark China's economic growth and proclaim its arrival as a world power. Now times have changed. Last week Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic-organizing committee, scrapped half the planned stadiums in a demonstration of what he called "the principle of thrift." But in Beijing, observers of the always opaque Chinese leadership are wondering if the new policy smacks of political infighting as much as it does of economy...
...downside? These plans offer the illusion that shopping equals thrift. "You're never going to spend your way into savings," says Gail Hillebrand, a senior attorney at Consumers Union in San Francisco. "You need a significant savings plan for your family, and this is not it." The amounts of money returned can be so small that if you're spending for things you otherwise wouldn't buy, it can easily negate the benefit...
...more, the lower price means more frequent breakdowns, as the string of bad luck NASA had with its Mars probes in the 1990s painfully demonstrated. The upside of flying economy is that if one spacecraft is lost, it's a relatively small matter to cobble together another. That thrift-shop technology has succeeded in getting three rovers onto the surface of Mars and will be at work again this summer when NASA launches the MESSENGER probe for a 2008 rendezvous with Mercury, and in 2006 when the New Horizons spacecraft takes off for Pluto...
...unchanging vision of an America that the Hollywood of his youth tried both to express and create. It was a Norman Rockwell vision of elm-shaded village life, of freckle-faced boys going fishing, of parading on July 4; it was a Horatio Alger vision of hard work and thrift and virtue rewarded. If the Gipper died young, he nonetheless died a hero. That was the America in which Reagan wanted Americans to believe, and in which many Americans themselves wanted to believe. And to a surprising extent, they succeeded...