Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...turkey lunches, but no dinner")--he runs upstairs to his room at the tiny Governor's Inn to change out of his blue suit; it's the only one he has in Tallahassee, and it has started to rain. Fond of Lands' End tailoring, knit ties and cheap watches, Boies quickly returns in a gray tweed wool jacket, which, for the rest of the day, he pulls over his head to stay dry, as if an umbrella might slow him down. He feels the same way about briefcases and legal pads. As best I can tell, through 13 TV appearances...
...This ain't cheap. It'll cost you $1,000 to file and get a patent and $75 or more to apply for a provisional patent. Patents must be renewed periodically: $470 to renew for 3 1/2 years; $950 for 7 1/2 years; $1,455 for 11 1/2 years. Attorney's fees can range from several hundred to more than $10,000. Just a patent search can cost from $600 to $1,200. Miscellaneous filing fees can run an additional...
...PERFECTED HOME PICTUREPHONE: Any day now, engineers are going to figure out how to make videophones cheap enough for someone besides the chairman of Goldman Sachs to use at home. But "now" is the postderegulation telephonic age and the heyday of high-powered telemarketing. Do you have any idea what this means once the Picturephone becomes a common household appliance? It means: "Hi, I'm Kathie Lee Gifford singing the Trans-Vox Long Distance Weekend Offer Song!" "It's me, John Madden, inviting you to sign up now for a low-interest KashKard!" "Got a minute? I'd like...
...announces that there's going to be a special 6:15 flight. I jump off the carpet with the energy of a deprived mouse at the sight of Swiss cheese. They direct us to a waiting area and our eyes feast upon the sight of chairs. Right angles and cheap leather never looked this good. I borrow a cell phone and call my mom. We were both expecting me to be safely lodged in Wigglesworth Hall at this time. She nearly drops a pot of boiling water when I tell her that I'm still at LaGuardia...
...other uses, if the cheap glasses work for you, go ahead and use them. "I have some over-the-counter reading glasses myself," says Dr. Donald Schwartz, associate clinical professor of ophthalmology at the University of California at Irvine. "They can be very convenient...