Word: cheapness
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...unable to dictate the terms of surrender, making it easier for Omar to go on the lam and perhaps emboldening bin Laden in his game of hide-and-seek. "You get what you pay for," says an Army officer. "When you fight a ground war on the cheap, you can't always get what you want...
...Queasy stuff. But the carmakers, possibly looking to be rewarded with their own cabinet position (Secretary of Detroit?) when all this is over, are patriotically soldiering on from phase to phase like a good economic actor should. First, by personally delivering the Fed's cheap money to the people with take-my-car-please financing offers, Big Auto made October's retail sales numbers comforting enough to get to sleep at night...
...even seen him on a white horse rallying his troops. Al Jezeera TV last weekend breathlessly reported claims that bin Laden has undergone plastic surgery, without bothering to ask why he'd need any - by simply removing his turban, cutting his hair, shaving off his beard and donning a cheap knockoff Armani suit, bin Laden in the flesh would be unrecognizable to most...
WEITZ: We had a 25-year bull market where stocks got systematically inflated, and we've had only a year and a half of squeezing that out. I don't think they're especially cheap. If you had to buy today and hold for five years, it might turn out O.K. But I don't think you automatically get 10%-a-year returns from here...
...chasm from the early adopters to the majority? At this point, I would say no. The product is trying to fill a gap between walking and driving, but in big cities, this gap has already been filled by taxis, subways, buses, bicycles and rollerblades. If the Segway were as cheap as bicycles and rollerblades, then its technological advantages and the fact that it’s self-powered might help, but at $3,000, it’s a tough sell. Kamen should be able to make a living selling the Segway to businesses and visionaries, but the product will...