Word: tightfistedness
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Many planners had questioned whether voters would actually pay to protect their environment. The answer now seems to be yes-at least if water pollution is involved. Maine's tightfisted voters, for instance, approved a $50 million bond issue to build better municipal sewage-treatment plants, but turned down...
Pleading Hardship. For most of those who serve, jury duty is a financial hardship. Even though the tightfisted parish of New Orleans, which does not pay jurors anything, is not typical, the juror in federal courts gets only $20 a day. In most state courts he may expect to earn...
The goal will be difficult to reach. Congress has already proved tightfisted with appropriations. Beyond that, builders correctly fear that any sudden leap toward 2,600,000 homes a year would sharply increase the already serious inflation in construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe...
Over 39 seasons as Chicago's coach, Halas led the Bears to six N.F.L. championships and eight divisional titles, compiled a record of 321 victories against 142 losses and 31 ties. A master strategist, he perfected the T-formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread...
Tightfisted Buyers. It wasn't easy. Expansion-minded Sunset was saddled with several white-elephant projects and mountainous debts ($130 million last June). To reduce that burden, Rozet persuaded lenders to stretch out some loans and cancel others in return for undeveloped acreage. Last November he put $50 million...