Word: frugality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death benefit. Auto coverage is rising, but underwriters offer highly specific policies. A good driver in a tanklike SUV (less likely to be hurt by bad drivers) can get a rate cut. Sounds wacky, given that SUVs are more likely to cause injury to others. But, hey, like getting frugal in a slowdown, it's O.K. to think of yourself first...
Inheritance, for instance, is often steeped in deep ambivalence. "Overnight you inherit what took your parents a lifetime to accumulate," Brooks says. "It's uncomfortable and bittersweet." Her inheritance helped her financially but also came with strings attached--albeit self-imposed. "My mother was extremely frugal," says Brooks, "so sometimes when I spend money, I think she would be horrified...
...unless it manages to pull another financing rabbit out of its rather magical hat." The day of reckoning will come in the first quarter of next year, when sales are slower and Amazon goes cap in hand for more cash, as it has in the past. In this more frugal climate, Suria suggests, big Amazon backers like Kleiner Perkins may decline. (The venture-capital firm did not return calls for comment...
...Washington's big-ticket programs, was a creature of the cold war. In 1984, President Reagan, smarting from the Soviet Union's long line of successful space stations, announced that the U.S. was getting into the station game. The American entry would measure a whopping 500 ft., cost a frugal $8 billion and go online by 1992. Dreaming up so grand a machine turned out to be a lot easier than designing it, however, and over the next eight years, NASA spent a staggering $10 billion drawing and discarding blueprints, without a single piece of metal ever getting...
...haven't been as generous, despite their multibillion-dollar net worth. He hopes his gift will spur other tech billionaires to action, particularly Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, who don't discuss specifics of any giving they may have done--and who Clark believes have been too frugal. "These guys actually ran the Yahoo servers out of Stanford," says Clark. "They should be giving something back. These guys are young, but they've got more money than me. Or take Larry Ellison; he should be doing more." But Clark remains optimistic: "These new-money guys, first they have...