Word: cheaping
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...Cheap labor allowed India to find a niche for itself in the diamond-polishing business, but that wasn't the country's only edge. The Surat diamond trade was built by a dynamic and enterprising religious community?the Palanpuri Jains, followers of an ancient religion that emphasizes nonviolence and vegetarianism. Jains account for 0.4% of India's population. The Palanpuris, who hail from the town of Palanpur in the Indian state of Gujarat, form a close-knit community that thrives in the atmosphere of secrecy and informality that envelops the diamond trade?there are often no written contracts, many transactions...
...years ago. For decades they supported the KMT, then Taiwan's only party, which co-opted local ?lites and controlled loans to farmers to win loyalty. Now that's changing. Locals worry that the KMT's desire for closer ties with the mainland will mean a flood of cheap imported produce and lower incomes and, more fundamentally, that the KMT will eventually reunify with a country they consider alien. The KMT's Yunlin chief, Huang Shang-wen, knows how his party can regain votes: "For us to win elections, we need to lean toward independence." But that would sacrifice...
...Cheap Lullaby...
...reflection and apologies are cheap. At this very moment our nation again sits idle in the face of yet another African genocide, as a campaign of whole scale ethnic cleansing racks the troubled nation of Sudan. The crisis demands strong leadership and urgent action. Will President Bush rise to the challenge, or will he repeat the sins of his predecessor...
...reasonable to think that a Supreme Court Justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined." ANTONIN SCALIA, Supreme Court Justice, in a 21-page memorandum declaring that he would not remove himself from a case before the court regarding Vice President Cheney's energy task force, despite his recent outing with Cheney...