Cut Rate

As odd as the idea of cut-rate, illicit, butt-boosting injections may sound, this case is far from the first that has made headlines - and in some cases, the outcome has been deadly. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Here government, at least on a small scale, is a reliable partner as a community development organization called the University Cultural Center Association aids start-ups in the Midtown neighborhood with financing, tax credits, cut-rate rents on space and technical advice on everything from bookkeeping to marketing. ❋ John Gerzema (2010)

Thousands of doomed enterprises were kept alive for several years, producing goods that could be sold only by means of barter at cut-rate prices. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

This barber was an Armenian-born guy who looked like a cut-rate Antonio Banderas, only unlike Antonio I doubt he would have been aroused by the sight of Melanie Griffith. ❋ Charlie Carillo (2011)

If you're looking for an older model, I have about 36 varietals of Real Housewives none of those cut-rate imaginary housewives in various states of dementia and Botox-palsy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yet the world of technology has embraced the slumdwellers with its cheap cell phones and cut-rate calling plans that charge a sliver of a penny a minute. ❋ AP (2010)

After natural distasters, there are folks who are up bright and early the next morning to defraud devastated survivors with lying offers of roof repair, cut-rate funeral plots, and, oh yeah, toxic trailers in which to house their children and ill family members. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead, Nasri was 10 months away from becoming a free agent and, faced with the prospect of losing him for nothing, Arsenal was forced to take the cut-rate offer. ❋ Gabriele Marcotti (2011)

Global steelmaking is also at excess capacity, which could weaken demand for steel, especially if China continues to export steel at cut-rate prices. ❋ Lynn Cowan (2011)

They offer cut-rate fares — gamblers can pay $12 round-trip from Chinatown to the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, and get a $60 bonus at the casino. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As the largest retailer on earth, the company is generally able to dictate the terms of trade with the thousands of merchants who keep the shelves of its stores stocked with cut-rate goods, tapping factories in China and middlemen traders in Latin America. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Reynolds, Altria Group Inc. and other industry giants are lobbying the Florida Legislature to close what they say is a loophole that allows Dosal to sell its cigarettes at cut-rate prices. ❋ David Kesmodel (2011)

Leslie Sellers, president of the 26,000-member Appraisal Institute, a professional group based in Chicago, says the Fed's proposals include important core principles of freedom from coercion and outside influence on valuations but don't lessen the current system's tilt toward cut-rate fees and short turnaround times over appraisal quality. ❋ Post (2010)

The idea of offering cut-rate prices temporarily to boost demand might not seem so radical in retailing. ❋ Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg (2012)

In an era where ESPN's greatest threat is a death by a thousand cuts from emerging specialized channels — NFL Network, MLB Network, Big Ten Network — Versus seems like a cut-rate generalist whose top properties — NHL and Tour de France — aren't a claim to fame. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Possibly if one did, these cut-rate tomato cage would work all right. ❋ Mrissa (2010)