Word: cheapness
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...Ginger strolls away from Fred. He follows her, and as they move upstage she throws in a cute little step that the music doesn't allow him to duplicate - a cheap little triumph that he acknowledges by wheeling on one foot and raising his hand to his mouth. For 12 bars they do some snazzy vaudeville tap figures in synch and turn in toward each other. This is the moment when dancers would normally embrace and spin off together, but these two stop just short of touching. This tactic continues through most of the number: every time the music...
...hoped their hunch would pay off. Did it ever. War Emblem won the Derby in style, going off as a 20-to-1 shot and leading wire to wire. Two weeks later, in the Preakness, the "speed" horses were supposed to drain War Emblem like a cheap battery. He won going away. "Baffert and the Prince were able to see that they could move [War Emblem] up in class," says Tom Hammond, a racing expert...
...travel revealed in April that business travel is down 20% this year. Even worse, B.T.C. chairman Kevin Mitchell notes that 60% of the companies plan to cut further. Frustrated by ticket prices that skyrocketed 74% between 1996 and 2000, businesspeople are eliminating nonessential trips, hunting for last-minute cheap fares online, videoconferencing, or taking trains, private planes and even buses. "Some of these reductions are meant to be permanent," warns Mitchell...
This may be the best time in history to look for cheap airline tickets. A slow economy and the aftereffects of 9/11 have airlines slashing fares to sell tickets. And the Internet has created real price competition. But can it last? A growing chorus argues that it can't, for one big reason: Orbitz.com...
...history of modern drug addiction might be said to start, innocuously enough, with a cup of tea. London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded his first taste of "tee (a China Drink)" in 1660; by the early 1700s, as cheap sugar to sweeten the brew poured in from the West Indies, the entire nation was on its way to becoming hooked. Some Englishmen were soon knocking back 50 cups a day. The English East India Company, which held the monopoly on all Eastern imports, saw its tea sales grow from 97,000 kg in 1713 to 14.5 million in 1813, making...