el cheapo

The public has a right to know that they're getting an el cheapo product."

"Say you wanted to market a new diet system that was really el cheapo.

The El Cheapo computers usually use pipsqueak processors that will probably be too feeble to handle new software in two or three years.

At worst, could the chips be in the devices, and the cable have some el cheapo 1kb flash chip which contains the data they need?

The old hotel lobby had been refurbished the way a landlord would expect a group to do who rented this El Cheapo for a co-op residence.

El Cheapo may come with a nominally slower CD-ROM drive, but you will never notice the difference.

"Our problem with the Japanese," Mr. Hamilton said, "was that they were selling premium products at el cheapo prices.

Like everyone else, they had to turn in their big flashlights and accept the $1.98 El Cheapo models seen on "The X-Files."

Now, if you are using those el cheapo RIT dyes you buy at the supermarket, your shirt will probably run.

Ellen Gottlieb was selling an assortment of costume jewelry ($10 and under) given her by "my ex-boyfriend, El Cheapo."

They tend to try to accommodate the el cheapos out of the simple necessity that they really do not know what quality power supply the end-user may have.

Reuben Sabbagh, proprietor of El Cheapo, a general merchandise store in the former bank, said he believed that Wendy's would be a "winner."

At 12:48 p.m. Thursday, El Cheapo Depot on Jerome Avenue sold its last American flag for $1.99.

That was certainly not how Bavasi learned it from his Brooklyn mentor, Branch Rickey, who was not known as El Cheapo for nothing.

But, anyway, coming back to my impending visit, I visited TT all set to type in "What the el cheapo things to do in NYC?"

If you are not dictating to your computer, playing the hottest games, or editing big photo files, you may not notice much difference between El Cheapo and El Presidente.

I wanted to get back to that big pot of stew and love I remembered, and lamb shank was one of those el cheapo cuts that ended up in Nonni's sauce."

Mr. Bulger said he was working on a book, entitled "El Cheapo Grande," to document his "struggle to bring common sense to the operating management of the city of New York."

TeamXbox gave a mixed review, calling it an "average title" but "Being a budget title, gamers will find that Curse is one of the more solid el cheapo titles, and worth the twenty bucks."

Across the street from El Cheapo Depot, Mildred Smith, who worked in the financial district as an administrative assistant for Verizon, sat drinking a Bacardi and Coke in the Equator Lounge.

They are more costly than lower-tier brands, and Mr. Spindler said Apple had no intention of competing with such machines, saving particular derision for Packard-Bell, which he called "an el cheapo packeteer."

If you feel like splurging, opt for the fat-cat breakfast: steak, eggs and a bottle of Dom Pérignon ($229.99); the not-so-fat-cat substitutes "a bottle of our finest El Cheapo champagne" ($49.99).

The good news for business travelers is that the budget overlords are less successful these days at squeezing them into the middle seat on FlyByNite Airways and dumping them into a room at El Cheapo Gardens.

(Gionfriddo, the still-zestful 80-year-old who robbed Joe DiMaggio of a home run in the 1947 World Series, can tell withering tales of the mendacity and frugality of Branch Rickey, the resident El Cheapo of the Dodgers.)

Hill argues that the incorporation of pseudo-Spanish terms like "hasty banana" (for hasta mañana), "buenos nachos" (for buenas noches), "el cheapo", "no problemo", "hasta la bye-bye", and other humorous uses constitute a type of covert racism.