Word: frugalities
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...future in the pool is bright and his smile is winning, but Alexander Popov takes an austere, even bleak view of the world outside. The 100-m freestyle swimmer, who won the European championship last year, worries about Russia's future and takes an intensely frugal approach to life. "I look soberly on literally everything, even on girls. I am totally unromantic," he says...
...Frugal Gourmet: necessary recipes to supplement dining hall fare: Wigglesworth salad dressing--mustard, vinegar and oil and dill; honey-mustard sauce--honey mixed with mustard; Store 24 Burritos--burrito, microwave, iron stomach...
Pheasant under glass seems an unlikely entree to gain popularity during the frugal 1990s. But Henry Saglio, the owner of Connecticut's Grayledge-Avian Farms, wants to make pheasant more proletarian. Back in the 1940s, Saglio's Arbor Acres farm raised some of the first of the meatier and cheaper white chickens that became a diet staple. For the past five years, he has been perfecting a broad-breasted breed of pheasant that is meatier and more tender than its wild brethren in the hope of popularizing that fowl...
...slump. But it has also accelerated a wave of firings that can only be attributed to longer-term structural changes, including a drastic shakeout in industries that were overbuilt in the 1970s and '80s. Among the worst hit is retailing, which is undergoing a painful adjustment to the frugal '90s. Just last week Zale, the largest U.S. jewelry-store operator, said it would close 400 of its 2,000 stores and lay off 2,500 workers. "We are looking at the historic restructuring of the American economy," says Dan Lacey, an Ohio- based employment consultant. "It's not just decline...
Other People's Money explores the conflict between the interests of the stockholders and those of the owners of New England Wire and Cable, a small manufacturing company located in Rhode Island. Thanks to years of frugal ownership by Andrew Jorgenson (William Cain), the son of the company's founder, Wire and Cable has no debt and undervalued stock. These assets attract the attention of Lawrence Garfinkle (Jack Willis), a New York corporate raider nicknamed "Larry the Liquidator." Garfinkle wants to buy large chunks of stock, drive up the price of each share, then deep-six the company and sell...