Word: cheapness
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...home in on oil and gas stocks. He had never liked them, knowing that oil prices had fallen in real terms over 150 years while demand had grown at a desultory pace--"a formula for a bad long-term investment." Still, after years of lackluster performance, the sector was cheap, so he drew up a list of buys, like Devon Energy, Apache and XTO Energy. But he never bought them. "I was preoccupied with other things," Miller admits. "When I got around to doing it, the prices had moved up about 5%, and I don't want...
...stark contrast to the opportunities afforded to most other student organizations. As other groups scrounge for space, all-male a cappella groups devour rooms for their rehearsals. One even has a posh clubhouse to use as its home base. While most Harvard students socialize in overcrowded dorm rooms drinking cheap liquor out of brightly colored Solo cups, a cappella group members hobnob with the rich and famous at the finest restaurants in Boston and Cambridge. That these flagrantly discriminatory organizations have been allowed to survive for so long is shocking. It’s time for a change...
...have to defend better against the big play, long passes, long returns, and not giving up anything cheap,” Knowles said. “Our team is only two years old, and we’ve just had some things happen that are demoralizing to a team that’s not very mature...
...what does this unabashedly cornball movie have to offer to jaded college students, particularly those for whom sincerity is an eighth sin? After all, the laughs frequently come from cheap one-liners and even cheaper puns that fail to be redeemed by their tongue-in-cheek delivery...
Harvard men dominate most conversations, sections, lectures and, apparently, all non-Humanities courses. They prattle obnoxiously about themselves for hours. They get rewarded for this with cheap and easy sex with most of the women in Boston, even if they themselves are wearing knee socks. And ultimately, get to make horrible jokes about how Harvard girls are hideous...