Word: cheaping
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Your examples of modern design are overwhelmingly cheap plastic junk. It's frightening how Americans shrink-wrap and live in so much environmentally unsound plastic. We should use it only where it is best suited: electronics hardware, kitchen utensils and packaging. Classy design that can stand the test of time will always come in the form of distinctive and natural woods, metals, stone and leather. ERIK GAUGER Redondo Beach, Calif...
...first--and is still the only--female three-star general in the Army. Defense Secretary William Cohen lauded her last fall as "an officer who has made a career of defying barriers." Moreover, fellow officers say she is an Army loyalist who would never take a "cheap shot" at the service she loves. Nevertheless, she has dealt the Army a major blow by filing a sexual-harassment complaint against a fellow general. The incident allegedly occurred in Kennedy's Pentagon office in late 1996, when a male major general--the same rank as hers at the time--"inappropriately touched...
...reaching Mars is doing it smart and doing it cheap. In 1989, during the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Bush challenged NASA to figure out how to put human beings on Mars. The space agency came back with an elephantine 30-year plan that involved construction bays and fuel depots in low-Earth orbit and carried a jaw-dropping price tag of $450 billion...
...traveling to Mars on the cheap the best way to go? As the recent failures of NASA's unmanned Mars probes suggest, makeshift machines built with off-the-shelf parts may save money, but when it comes time to fly, they often fall short. At the Johnson Space Center, engineers are thus looking at other Mars scenarios that still include frugal, on-site fuel manufacturing but also call for six-person crews, bigger vehicles and Apollo-style motherships in Martian orbit. "We're trying to take the best ideas and fold them into a reasonable approach," says Drake...
...Manliness motivates not only Braveheart, but the terrorists of Northern Ireland. And Wolfe, without any concern for the excess for his extreme stance, ends up spewing a kind of cheap Nietzsche, worshipping his own ubermensch, the stoic philosopher. One such character, a la Charlie Croker, the hero of A Man in Full, may be colorful, but a society of such rambunctious souls is anarchy...