Word: tightfistedness
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Yet even with the best possible staff, NASA has a problem it never faced in the free-spending 1960s. Nowadays, every new mission has to be sold to a skeptical and tightfisted Congress. The agency has found that legislators -- and the aerospace contractors who lobby them -- prefer big, complex projects...
Senator James Exon got the velvet treatment last week, when the White House began to worry that the tightfisted Nebraska Democrat might not back the $5.7 billion extension of unemployment benefits that is the first step in Clinton's economic-stimulus plan. Clinton wanted the votes of all 57 Democratic...
After the longest U.S. slump since the Great Depression, the first signs of recovery have begun to sprout like early spring blossoms. Spurred by a decline in interest rates, Americans have been snapping up houses and heading off to shopping malls in growing numbers. Tightfisted bankers have begun writing new...
The curious mix of intellectual exhilaration and spacy West Coast image has dogged Brown ever since the bushy-browed onetime Jesuit seminarian first vaulted into the governorship in 1974. What most characterized his administration was incessant questioning of the status quo. Long nights were spent brainstorming about everything from cost...
Yet the crucial decisions are still made in seat-of-the-pants fashion, chiefly by three top executives. The veteran of the trio is Ed Turner, a charter member of the CNN staff, who is probably best known (as news stories quoting him invariably point out) for not being related...