Word: cheapness
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...little time giving us a sense of his female characters—God forbid we lose some of the shots of scenery and endless montages of vineyards to make room for character development. So little time is devoted to his female characters that Payne is forced to use the cheap tactic of writing Maya a soliloquy about “the life of wines” in order to give her supposed spiritual depth...
...destination restaurants. The latter-one Thai, one Mediterranean-are presided over by chef Sven Krauss, formerly of the Sukhothai Bangkok hotel and co-author of The Food of Thailand: Authentic Recipes from the Golden Kingdom, a best-selling cookbook in the U.S. Needless to say, none of this comes cheap-introductory rates, valid until Nov. 30, start from $325 a night...
Tapping into the Internet for voice communications isn’t a new idea. It’s likely, in fact, that you’ve used VoIP unwittingly. Most calling cards, and in particular just about all of the very cheap ones you see in convenience stores, are provided by companies taking advantage of the technology. They have offices somewhere in America and satellite offices in a wide variety of foreign countries: You call the American office, your voice is digitized, and then it’s sent over the Internet to, for instance, the office in Ghana, where...
...embarrass the Republican ticket or alienate it from its evangelical base. It was an "attempt to suppress a certain segment of Christian votes," says Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate and a leading advocate of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Lynne Cheney called it "a cheap and tawdry political trick...
...soccer teams in the mid-1990s, its ill-fitting cleats caused heel sores so painful that Nike had to let its athletes wear Adidas (with black tape over the trademark). In 1997, Nike ramped up production just before the Asian banking crisis killed demand, then flooded the market with cheap shoes, undercutting its own retailers and driving many into the arms of Adidas. Two years later, the company created a $15 Swoosh-bearing canvas sneaker designed for poor Chinese. The "World Shoe" flopped so badly that Nike killed...