Word: cheapness
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...recognize your shortcomings—acting like a fourteen-year-old isn’t attractive to anyone (even other fourteen-year-olds). You haven’t provided me with details, but my guess is that any of the following may or may not have been involved: a) cheap alcohol, b) ogling of various body parts and/or other random objectification, or c) the phrase “Hey baby, want to come over and watch Party of Five at my place after school—uh, I mean, class?” Hardly appealing...
Hopefully the forthcoming British Broadcasting Corporation series tie-in with the book will lean more toward the reasoned analysis of the bulk of the book, emphasizing the motivations and ambiguities of all the actors in this transatlantic epic, rather than rely on the cheap “Americans are hypocrites” shot...
Although street lit's roots reach back to the 1970s and the novels of Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, the development of cheap digital printing smashed one barrier to entry. And the advent of Amazon, which diminished the need for display space in bookstores, smashed another. So street-lit authors had a route around mainstream publishing houses. Following the success of The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah in 2000--it sold 475,000 copies--a flood of gritty, self-published crime novels hit the market. What street-lit authors may have lacked in wordsmithing, they made...
...what's with Target? It's known as one of the smartest retail operators in the country, if not the world, having practically invented the cheap-chic mass market. Disabled Americans are sitting there with $176 billion, and though it pains me personally to admit this, the number of people whose aging eyes make reading websites tough is growing every day. How could executives of Target fail to see the overwhelming benefit of making Target.com accessible to this market...
...Hayes, chief investment strategist at Ned Davis, doubts we'll see much follow-through this time. "The valuation excesses we saw during the bubble still have not fully corrected," he warns. Today's price-to-earnings multiple of 17 suggests that the market is far from cheap. "Usually, you have to get well below the average [which is 16] before you can turn it around," says Hayes...