Word: frugales
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...gouged my way up to the bar in vintage Ed King, clip-'em-on-the-sweep fashion. The bar-tender, a smallish man unaccustomed to such mass displays of joviality, informed me that Scotch and soda was going for $1.90 that night. Ed King, I realized, would run a frugal administration, having already cut back on essential social services. I settled for ginger...
...still be predictable. That was the message, if any, of last week's primary elections in Kansas and Tennessee. They proved once again that money counts; so do family name, hard work, good looks and-increasingly among a tax-and-inflation-weary electorate-a pledge to be frugal. From a national standpoint, the week's biggest winner was Republican Senator Howard Baker, 52, who clobbered five lackluster opponents in Tennessee by garnering 84% of the vote-a larger share than even he expected and one that fortifies his presidential ambitions. Highlights of the races...
...Butterfield was also a frugal woman who disliked waste, Gamage remembered. "Her year in Social Studies she made all the food for the senior-Faculty dinner herself, because it bothered her that we were spending so much money," Gamage said...
...with possible portents of racial trouble in the simmering summer months. By and large, homeowners from the middle and upper classes, justly aggrieved by their rising tax burden, had led the tax revolt. But worried blacks and Hispanics in California feared, with some cause, that as government turned more frugal, they would be hurt the most...
...major enticement because of the devalued dollar and the fact that markups, taxes and tariffs are lower in the U.S. than in many other countries. An article in the Paris trend-setting fashion magazine Elle has attracted many French women to Filene's basement, citadel of the frugal New England matron, for frocks that sell for a fraction of the price in Paris boutiques. On Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif, Middle Eastern and Japanese tourists snap up $700 Omega watches, $500 Gucci handbags and $500 Brioni suits. While those prices seem stiff, they are often less than half...