Word: frugal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carried to tables. Bassetts ice cream has been sold here since 1893, and the irresistibly thick, cold milkshakes are passed across the marble counter. Fisher's is the spot for a just baked soft pretzel that is brushed with melted butter and mustard. At 50 cents, it is frugal enough to satisfy even Ben Franklin...
Today visitors to Wal-Mart's plain, red brick offices in Bentonville soon get an insight into how Walton manages to offer such low prices. The company's frugal quarters are outfitted like a bus station, complete with plastic seats. The chairman's office, covered in bargain-basement paneling, is appointed mostly with strewn-about books and computer printouts...
...Holmes Hall Living Room provides space enough for Betrayal's many scene changes, which do not disrupt the flow of the play. The sets are not spectacular--a frugal bedroom, a two-table restaurant, and a couch, chair and table for a living room--but they are not meant...
...Reagan was passing. It has left its indelible mark, yet its battle cry -- that Government is the problem, not the solution -- is losing force. Presidential candidates of both parties are struggling to define a new role for Government in the post-Reagan era. While seeing the need to be frugal, they are talking more and more about compassion, more active approaches to deep-rooted social problems, a new sense of community values. Reagan has done what he has done, and he has accomplished much. He presided over one of the longest periods of economic recovery in American history, a time...
...under depressed conditions, and unemployment on some reservations runs as high as 60%. In recent years, though, several tribes have won multimillion- dollar settlements of long-standing claims against the U.S. and state governments for illegally seizing land. Most tribes shared the settlements among their members, but a few frugal, forward-looking chiefs sought more profitable ways to spend their people's windfalls...