Word: cheapness
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...least they're getting them cheap...
...Wong-Jiang chip factory that takes the trend far beyond the realm of sneaker manufacturers looking for cheap workers. Winston Wong was once heir apparent to his father's company, Formosa Plastics, one of Taiwan's biggest firms. In 1995, Taiwan newspapers reported that Wong was cheating on his wife with a university student; Wong's stepmother shoveled them much of the dirt. It turned out she wanted her own children to run the company. Her husband, Wang Yung-ching, who has three wives of his own, backed wife No. 3 and forced his son to leave Taiwan for embarrassing...
...Most teams are technically owned by local and regional governments. With operating budgets provided primarily by local treasuries, there is little impetus for the generals to run the league as a business. Players' salaries are generally minimal and ticket prices are cheap (70 to $6), although fans of many teams don't bother paying when they can climb over fences of poorly secured pitches. But as long as the generals can entertain friends and snack on fried tofu (a spectator favorite) during matches, why should they change anything? Attendance has been flat, from about...
...called on the developed world to donate $7 to 10 billion a year to support their efforts. That kind of money can help stop the new infections (almost 4 million last year in Africa), treat the sick (at $350 per person per year, AIDS drugs are now cheap enough that we can finance them but still too expensive for poor countries to buy for themselves), and help communities support the swelling ranks of AIDS orphans. As did the Global Programme before it, Annan's Global AIDS Trust Fund has the potential to start turning the tide...
Mind you, at $79 the SL-8000 is a relatively cheap remote. It can handle up to eight components. Sony's RM-AV2100 Integrated Remote Commander--the fatal remote featured on The Sopranos--costs $179 and can handle a dozen. The Remote Commander is a serious remote--tweakable, customizable, programmable--bursting with preferences and macros and timers. Instead of plain old buttons, it has a glowing blue LCD touch screen. ("Hey, is that the remote or the TV?" quipped my wife. She's still jealous about VCR Girl...