Word: tightfistedness
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Facing a bare till, a tightfisted Governor builds a surplus
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'...
Somehow De la Madrid has escaped the controversy surrounding the outgoing administration even though, as Mexico's Secretary of Programming and Budget, he was responsible for Lopez Portillo's grandiose Global Plan for Development, a document that has now been discreetly shelved. One reason De la Madrid may...