Word: cheap
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Dialpad because it's free and I'm cheap," says Katherine A. McEnaney '03. "I'm not going to spend money for long distance if I don't have to. I actually forgot my PAC number months and months and months...
Whenever I stop and find myself contemplating the original Blair Witch Project (something that doesn't seem to occur all that often), I almost always realize that my thoughts never seem to dwell on the actual movie itself. Because really, what made that novel, dirt-cheap, better-in-concept-than-execution horror film explode into an orgiastic pop culture triumph was all the creativity that went on outside of it. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick didn't come close to producing the most starkly terrifying film ever (still Jaws, hands down), yet their marketing campaign...
...course, this comes from a columist who used the phrase "farty-pants" as a cheap source of humor last week...
Some brokerages were poised to send out margin calls early this week, though a rally Friday may have provided a reprieve. Many investors, it seems, became so convinced that prices were cheap last spring that they doubled up, partly with borrowed money. Now lots of stocks are even cheaper. The NASDAQ bottomed at 3165 on May 23, suckered in a wave of new money with a 1,000-point rally, then collapsed in stunning fashion--closing as low as 3075 on Thursday. From the March 10 peak of 5049, the index dropped 39%. In the 17 trading days ending Friday...
...anywhere from 30,000 to multi-million dollar advances, drastically increasing the chances for that South-of-France experience). On top of studio payments, however, we had tape costs, mastering and duplication fees, graphic design, photography, art work, promotional expenses and those notorious, no-name boxes of pasta for cheap eating. Needless to say, we were slightly over budget. Unabashed negotiation and downright pleading helped make the project possible. Our graphic design firm, for example, accepted "one gig owed" as part of our payment. Nothing wrong with revisiting the old barter economy...