Word: cheapness
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...accompanied by cheers. The performance is repeated as each new person arrives, until when the Hall is filled, the uproar is general, loud and continuous. The staring is not only extremely rude, but very embarrassing for any one subjected to it, and the noise and tapping is silly and cheap...
...banker who wants to extend his credit in the form of notes, to deposit in the Treasury United States bonds equivalent in value to the amount of notes he proposes to issue. By this rule those who cannot make use of the loan and deposit credit, which is relatively cheap, are obliged to trade by means of monies capital--that is, coin and greenbacks--which is a comparatively expensive process. This is most unjust, because the burden falls chiefly on the rural districts which use deposit credit very little and are the least able to bear the burden. The system...
Salaries of recent times overpay their recipients. The excuse for them has been that in conducting a large business the right man is cheap at any price and the wrong man dear at any price. Publicity is the best remedy for all evils of corporation management, provided that there is an honest and strenuous public opinion which will reform these evils...
...ticket should be raised to seven or eight dollars is open to two serious objections. It would be hard on the men of small means, and would thereby be contrary to the policy of the Committee which has steadily been in favor of making the entrance to games as cheap as possible for all undergraduates, trusting to the generosity and public spirit of those who can afford to subscribe, and lightening the burden of those who must count every dollar. In the second place it is quite doubtful whether the raising of the price of the H. A. A. tickets...
...These employers' organizations have a two-fold object: the destruction of the trades unions and the establishment of the open shop which admits union and non-union men alike. It is questionable, however, whether the open shop is beneficial to the working classes. It results in the introduction of cheap foreign labor, and the lowering of wages. The closed shop, however, is distasteful to the public, Since it debars the free competition of high who are willing to work for low wages...