Word: cheapness
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...result was a verbal conflagration that dominated the newsgroups for weeks and is still smoldering four months later. "It looks like Beavis and Butt-head finally bought themselves a cheap modem," wrote an Internet regular, in one of the gentler messages. Things deteriorated when the AOL crowd began to give as good as they got, hinting that the old-timers ought to make way for people who actually paid for their Internet services. Feelings are still raw on both sides and are not likely to be salved until the next wave of newbies arrives -- probably from CompuServe, as early...
...expense, the clips are distributed free to ever-thrifty news outlets that are only too eager to air the material with little or no indication of its origin. The practice is inherently dishonest, both as a way for the government to promote itself and as a source of cheap programming for news outlets...
...there'll be no cease-fire anymore." Behind the 10-m walls of Shikma, bulky mastiffs drag guards across the gravel yard. In one cell in Block 8, 10 inmates sit back on their bunks in brown overalls, staring silently at a wall-mounted television, smoking aromatic cheroots and cheap Israeli cigarettes. The 8-m-by-11-m room is festooned with bath towels and tracksuits. Each man owns a transistor radio and earphones, and little else. The men reel off the dates of their incarcerations. All were jailed before the 1993 signing of the Oslo peace agreement and that...
Hardcover books can be so forbidding, can't they? Those imposing, inflexible covers, that terrifying $20-plus price tag. Whereas paperbacks--so soft, so yielding, so informal, so ... cheap. Some of last spring's best books are just coming out in paperback, so if you waited till now to read them, your patience is rewarded. And what's a year, anyway? Isn't great literature timeless...
...host family in Lesotho draw us further down the path of study-abroad envy. Of course, mostly we hear about alcohol. We hear stories about our friends getting smashed and hooking up with that girl in tight jeans and pointy, Euro-trash boots. Or about how wine is really cheap in Italy, beer in Germany, or Ouzo in Greece. A friend of mine who just got home from Africa sent along large bottle of Tanzanian liqueur. Notice a pattern...