One-income households require sacrificeNew River Valley Current, VA - 19 hours agoSometimes I do feel cheap. My mother gave me a puzzled look when I told her I couldn't buy a dress that was on clearance for $12 because I needed that money …
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Stuff.co.nz
MPs to vote for deal on ChinaStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Mar 30, 2008But Victoria University law professor Gordon Anderson said the mass manufacture of cheap clothing and shoes had shifted overseas long ago. …
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Cheap chic BRIGHT IDEADetroit Free Press, United States - Mar 30, 2008"It's funny, while I'm at these fancy galas and parties mixing with women wearing $1000 worth of clothes, I'm wearing a dress I spent $5 on and it's just as …
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BUY A BON-USSunday Mirror, UK - Mar 29, 2008WE are used to buying their cheap designer clothes and shoes, CDs and iPods…but now street-wise Britons are adding apartments and houses to their shopping …
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Israeli-Palestinian Trade SuffersGuardian, UK - Mar 28, 2008Merchants from both sides say such partnerships are ideal: Israeli clothing shops need cheap labor and West Bank Palestinians need the work. …
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Times Online
Let's ditch dirt cheap clothesTimes Online, UK - Mar 13, 2008Cheap - and I mean really dirt cheap - clothes have, over the past few years, contributed significantly to our increasingly frenzied disposable culture. …
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Cheap clothes make for a bad long-term investmentUSA Today - Mar 7, 2008While it's "painful for anybody" when you buy that first piece of clothing that falls apart, Reeder says, the experience rewarded her with a valuable …
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Patriotism, Protection And ProsperityEvening Bulletin, PA - 5 hours agoFree trade promotes peace and cheap goods, argues the free trader. The only problem, China is no more peaceful today than it was prior to joining the WTO, …
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Leo Maxam, The Green Room: Imagining a third world surf MeccaSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 11 hours agoTheir children sell KoolAid in plastic bags and cheap trinkets — "a googly eyed coconut for the lady?" — to the tourists on the beach. …
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Baltimore Sun
A little spring spreeBaltimore Sun, United States - 12 hours agoWe asked Mazeau what she would buy to freshen up last year's spring clothes if she had just $100 to spend. Her choice would be bold jewelry. …
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