Word: cheapness
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...recently, which allowed me to duck into his office and install spying software on his hard drive. You can buy commercial spyware these days, but I used VNC, which can be downloaded free. VNC was designed to help people link their own computers. But it also worked as a cheap and easy way for me to keep tabs on Joel. Soon after loading VNC onto my computer, I was rifling through Joel's hard drive...
Eliminating the U.S. border with Mexico would be good for Mexicans and good for American employers who profit from cheap labor [THE NEW FRONTIER, June 11]. But what about the rest of us? If the New World economy does not produce livable wages, stable communities and good schools, what kind of nation are we building? And what kind of wealth is this? We're getting a lot of traffic, pollution, drugs and poverty. It's a heavy price to pay just to avoid mowing our own lawns and cleaning our own homes. JONETTE CHRISTIAN Holden, Maine...
...draw a story if they have been legally incorporated as a business. The exact reasons for this can't be confirmed since the company refuses to comment on its contractual policies, but it most likely involves not having to pay benefits, avoiding character ownership lawsuits, and other sleazy, cheap legalities. In this light the book seems a lot less alternative and artistic than it would like you to believe...
...capacity utilization - actual production, as opposed to how much it could produce if anybody wanted it - is at the lowest point since the last recession. Banks are writing off bad loans hand over fist, and plenty gun-shy about lending to businesses with too few customers, no matter how cheap the money...
...afflicted. Crunch the numbers of the projected budget shortfalls, and some chilling facts begin to emerge. U.N. experts believe that as much as $5 billion a year will be needed by 2005 simply to counter the spread of HIV through safe-sex education, the provision of condoms and relatively cheap drugs proven to stop mother-to-child transmission of the virus. Treating those already infected would require a further $4.5 billion a year. Plainly, the priority in the impoverished nations of sub-Saharan Africa is to stop the spread of a disease that threatens to drag the continent into anarchy...