Word: tightfistedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Facing a bare till, a tightfisted Governor builds a surplus
For once, even the tightfisted Deukmejian could have afforded to splurge. For the first time since he took office last January, the Governor's financial resources and political stock are soaring. The state's coffers, depleted only six months ago, are newly flush with an expected $205 million...
DIED. George Halas, 88, bluff, gruff owner of football's Chicago Bears; in Chicago. He played briefly as an outfielder with the New York Yankees in 1919, quitting after an injury that did not affect his football skills. A year later he organized, coached and played end for the...
Once again last week, Brazil was at the brink. Part of its enormous $90 billion foreign debt was coming due, and the country had no way to pay. A team of tightfisted negotiators from the International Monetary Fund was in the capital city of Brasília demanding that in...
Unhappy with the Senate vote, White House advisers nonetheless tried to make a virtue of the defeat. If Reagan had only lost in the Democratic-controlled House, these aides argued, the vote could easily have been turned to the advantage of the President, and his party, in this fall'...