Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Martin: I think that?s the cheap and ugly way out. What I hate in movies ? I mean action movies ? is: "We need the audience to really hate the bad guy. So let?s have him kill two six-year-olds...
...rebate or no, students said they look for cheap books wherever they can find them...
Wall Street has a way of taking a good thing and misusing it. Consider stock buybacks. For decades they were a comforting, surefire sign of management confidence. After the crash in 1987, hundreds of companies initiated plans to spend billions on their own dirt-cheap shares. That inspired investors to do the same and helped stanch the panic--a good thing. Today, though, buybacks can be more about funding management's stock options than about signaling its resolve...
...anything--including hiding the fact that she's an unwed mother--in order to win beauty contests. Driver's an intelligent actress, but you don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission. Still, the film captures the frenzy for cheap renown with nicely curdled expertise, and Joey Lauren Adams is wonderful as Mona's faithful, hard-pressed best friend...
...launched his program in Baltimore, Embry at first looked to build a residential school somewhere in the U.S., but the costs were so high he felt he could never reach enough students. So he instead chose a spot beneath the foothills of Mount Kenya, where land is cheap and his teachers, half of whom are Kenyan, are willing to work for salaries as low as $5,000 a year. The focus is on boys (who more often than girls pose disciplinary problems) in the seventh and eighth grades. "That's when we lose them," says Embry. Baraka tries to save...