Word: frugalities
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Many Floridians seem willing to pay for better services, but they share a widespread suspicion that the government is not sufficiently frugal. In a recent study by Florida TaxWatch, a nonprofit taxpayers group based in Tallahassee, the average respondent believed the government wastes a third of every dollar it spends. Says Reed Gidez, 28, who moved to Tampa from New Jersey a year ago: "I would be willing to pay more taxes if state leaders could convince me that they were actually going to do something with the money." For the leaders of the fourth largest state in the nation...
...carried to tables. Bassetts ice cream has been sold here since 1893, and the irresistibly thick, cold milkshakes are passed across the marble counter. Fisher's is the spot for a just baked soft pretzel that is brushed with melted butter and mustard. At 50 cents, it is frugal enough to satisfy even Ben Franklin...
Today visitors to Wal-Mart's plain, red brick offices in Bentonville soon get an insight into how Walton manages to offer such low prices. The company's frugal quarters are outfitted like a bus station, complete with plastic seats. The chairman's office, covered in bargain-basement paneling, is appointed mostly with strewn-about books and computer printouts...
...Holmes Hall Living Room provides space enough for Betrayal's many scene changes, which do not disrupt the flow of the play. The sets are not spectacular--a frugal bedroom, a two-table restaurant, and a couch, chair and table for a living room--but they are not meant...
...Reagan was passing. It has left its indelible mark, yet its battle cry -- that Government is the problem, not the solution -- is losing force. Presidential candidates of both parties are struggling to define a new role for Government in the post-Reagan era. While seeing the need to be frugal, they are talking more and more about compassion, more active approaches to deep-rooted social problems, a new sense of community values. Reagan has done what he has done, and he has accomplished much. He presided over one of the longest periods of economic recovery in American history, a time...