Word: tightfistedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However expensive they become, the star wars seem sure to continue. ABC, which recently hired not only Sawyer but also NBC correspondent Chris Wallace, has been dubbed the hot network for its aggressive talent raids. NBC, having lost both Wallace and Chung, is hurting. Staff morale is low, and some...
Economists have kept a sharp eye on consumers to see whether they have become cautious and tightfisted, but the evidence so far is hazy. Last week domestic automakers reported a brisk 10.8% increase in passenger-vehicle sales during the last ten days of October, compared with the same period last...
There has been no shortage of irony and drama in Paul Volcker's eight-year tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. During that time, the U.S. went through one of its deepest economic slumps since the Great Depression, as well as its second longest peacetime boom in modern times. Volcker shares...
These days CBS's future seems to have arrived, and the huzzahs are rare in the company's corridors. Instead, there is much muttering and trembling, as the tightfisted Tisch continues to direct a rapid and ruthless austerity campaign that has so far cost 1,200 of CBS's 15...
When Reagan appointees gained a majority on the seven-member Federal Reserve board of governors last February, predictions abounded that the central bank would adopt a more stimulative monetary policy in an effort to pump up the economy. After all, the Reaganite faction would be led by Manuel Johnson, the...