Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...role of the IMF is to keep poor people away from U.S. taxpayers," he said. "You used to send in the British Army, now you send in the IMF. The U.S. runs [the IMF] for its own interests. We're so cheap, we're faking it with those institutions...
...less than one in one billion. It seems the voters have been bamboozled not by a vicious and scheming "vast right-wing conspiracy" bent on disenfranchising the masses, but instead by sheer ineptitude, both on the part of the designers of the ballot and the designers of a cheap and inaccurate punch-card system. Need I even mention that we are in the 21st Century? Is the best system for reading the will of the people truly an ugly fusion of ancient paper technologies, a blunt metal mini-club held over from our pre-sentient days roaming the planes...
Which underscores another point about Middelhoff. "I've learned to be flexible and wait for the right opportunity," he says. "But I have also been very lucky." Lucky enough to have a war chest at a time when Internet assets are dirt cheap...
...mismanaged. Fearing that they may create bloated bureaucracies, the states usually earmark the money for the direct care of kids, meaning monthly payments to foster parents and salaries for social workers. In so doing, they neglect the infrastructure. There are not enough computers, secretaries and clerks to do the cheap paper work that consumes social workers' time. There are not enough administrators to review the cases or think outside the box about creative solutions. "We've grown accustomed to allowing the critical function of caring for children to take place in an abysmal business setting," says Anita Bock, recently hired...
...Time," is upbeat and catchy (it's by the same team that brought you the upbeat and catchy "Come On Over"), other danceable songs like "The Christmas Song" become overwhelmingly kitschy, even for a Christmas album. Of course the question is why a Christmas album has to be slightly cheap at all, but the best poor Christina can do is offer up an album that is not entirely cheesy. So if you are looking for something a little spunky from your favorite teen pop superstar this side of Eminem, you might enjoy "My Kind of Christmas," but that...