Word: tightfistedness
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Throughout the '90s, Dean was a close Clinton watcher. Like Clinton, Dean used a political strategy of triangulation. On one hand, Dean alienated progressives by tightening spending and successfully pushing tax cuts. "Howard would start [each budget cycle] by cutting programs for the needy, things like wheelchairs and artificial limbs...
A little distance from Bush is usually not a bad thing for DeLay. An unflinching conservative advocate, he wins hurrahs from the faithful each time he sticks to his guns in public. And he translates that into legislative power. But sometimes the White House goes too far with its tendency...
Around mid-morning, the buses begin to arrive en masse, and by lunchtime the main drag has become a noisy testament to European automotive engineering. Under the Golden Triangle sign, a dozen or so children clad in gaudy hill-tribe garb jump into everyone's photographs, invited or not, then...
Do you have any idea what gas costs in Europe? Me neither, because my tightfisted editor wouldn't send me to Europe to find out. Also, they charge in liters there, and I still have no idea how much that is - which, much like the gas problem, may be Jimmy...
Do you have any idea what gas costs in Europe? Me neither, because my tightfisted editor wouldn't send me to Europe to find out. Also, they charge in liters there, and I still have no idea how much that is--which, much like the gas problem, may be Jimmy...