Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fact of the matter is, Rocker will get another chance. There aren't too many left-handed pitchers who throw mid-to-high 90s and have a put-away pitch like his slider. He'll also come for cheap, reportedly...
...search for cheap online textbooks started off fairly well. I picked up a few brightly colored flyers from outside Canaday and found that I could easily compare prices by going to limespot.com or the UC Books website. Because the Undergraduate Council has recently been wrapped up in more pressing issues than saving students' money, I decided to try the former...
...play bears a cartoon by the author's son.) Because of the box and other doodads--heavy paper, color foldouts--the issue costs $22, but Eggers, who has worked as a designer (and insisted on designing his memoir), argues, "People don't go to a bookstore looking for a cheap and ugly thing." McSweeney's contributor Sarah Vowell says Eggers' art background shows in both the physical journal and its self-aware marginalia (for example, its website, mcsweeneys.net offers reviewers a list of phrases--"precious, inconsequential, pointless"--to describe the journal). "Twentieth-century art was concerned with the thingness...
...bought a cell phone, sunglasses and a tasteful pink pashmina scarf. I had heard Sundance would be overrun with agents, producers and movie stars. If only that were true. The town is in fact overrun by desperate indie moviemakers. I thought indie was just another word for cheap, artsy films that no one sees. It turns out indie means movies made by rich kids who spend their parents' money without any way to get their films shown in theaters where people buy tickets...
Henry Ford wanted everyone to have a cheap car; his corporate descendants want a computer in every home. The Ford Motor Company announced Thursday that every one of its 350,000 employees would be eligible to receive a free Hewlett Packard computer, a color printer and $5-a-month Internet access via UUNet in a worldwide program beginning in April. The program will be reviewed after three years. "Ford has had very good labor relations over the past decade, and this remarkable initiative is certainly going to help maintain the loyalty of their workforce," says TIME business correspondent Frank Gibney...