Word: cheaping
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...perhaps better left untaught. Fundamentally, there is nothing inherently "good" about the lifestyle that Harvard promotes. It is one lifestyle among many, and the only thing that distinguishes it from the rest is, of course, that most people can't afford it. The "good life" ain't cheap, and, after our time at Harvard, affording it can be quite problematic. You need money--a lot of money--to keep on living the "good life," and this leaves you with few career paths to choose from...
These developments are great for the publishing industry, but they're not always beneficial to consumers. Publishers of paper books would love to get rid of the used-book market--after all, the sales bring them no revenue, and a cheap market in used books lowers the demand for new books. Current publishers aren't able to wrap their books in a license agreement and prevent you from selling them after you're finished reading; with a friendly law code and the increasing penetration of electronic books into the marketplace, this could easily change. Remember those licensing requirements every time...
...benefits for the elderly. For months, the Abraham campaign flooded Michigan voters with ads calling Stabenow a prescription for disaster. But Stabenow had a cannier vote-getting strategy: she sponsored bus tours for senior citizens, dubbed the Stabenow Rx Express, across the border into Canada to buy medications at cheap rates, a gimmick employed by Democratic candidates along the northern border states...
Cydylo's work is even less innovative. She seeks, as she says in her artist's statement, "specific allusions to Victorian constraint and more generalized, surreal indications of social interaction," which translates, it seems, to lots of cut-out dresses in black and white stuck on walls. Cheap Mattisse cut-out imitations, maybe, but little more...
...gave birth to Jim Beam and Jack Daniels produced Rick Miller, North Carolina native and founder of the band, who warned the crowd at the Middle East of the dangers of getting "Drunk and Lonesome (Again),": "Whenever I get liquored up, I always seem to end up in a cheap motel...