Word: cheapness
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...brutal totalitarian regime. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro "will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands.... American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor...
...after a string of successful Pub Nights in Loker Commons, it looks like we may have a new, permanent pub to look forward to. Forty-five hundred happy students later, they are still going strong. Combining exciting student and area bands with cheap beer and a friendly, non-Final Club environment, Loker has been revivified by the joint efforts of Veritas Records, Harvard Student Agencies, and administrators (and “fun czars”) in the office of the Dean of the College. Loker was meant to be a space for students, and thanks to recent developments...
...1990s?the last time a chunk of centrally located landfill came on the market?the administration sold 0.35 hectares to Citic Group for $430 million, while a consortium of developers paid $1.54 billion for the right to develop another site that now includes the IFC II skyscraper. "It was cheap, easy money," says Sun Hung Kai's Nissim, who for 20 years had worked as a senior government surveyor. "But it spun out of control...
...developing world. Market mechanisms can certainly be a path to a solution to the climate problem, but only if they lead to real technological innovation rather than emission shell games. The most lasting contributions from the developing countries will come not from their ability to cut emissions on the cheap, but from their ability to benefit from technological leapfrogging in long-term infrastructure...
...director of U.K. sales. "One thing we've learned as a company is to act locally and to treat each market as idiosyncratically as its demands," she says. As they say in France, "Cherchez la ? pizza?" Lower Taxes, Faster Tracks Low-cost airlines are not the ultimate word in cheap transport, it turns out. EasyJet has halted its twice-daily flights from Paris to Marseilles because the discounter was losing a battle for customers with the French railways. The high-speed TGV train can now do the 660-km trip in just three hours, about the same as flying...