Word: frugalities
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...FRUGAL GOURMET COOKS WITH WINE, Smith...
Congress has yet to resolve its basic standoff with the White House over how to close the budget gap without raising taxes or making major cuts in defense or social programs. After a year of Gramm-Rudman, Congress has become somewhat more frugal but mostly more inflexible. "Gramm-Rudman has helped, but it's a little like a half-successful birth-control method," mused Lynn Martin, an Illinois Republican who serves on the House Budget Committee. "It's better than nothing, but it's not as good as just saying...
...University, following its Great Frugal Tradition, no doubt is worried that it cannot afford to install copy card readers. But this time, poverty is a poor excuse. Prices are doubling, and the extra revenue that this will bring should easily make up for the expense which copy cards entail...
...rich." Company officials, however, respond that hot tubs, which currently cost about $2,000 apiece, are affordable items for most middle-class families. Moreover, W.W.P. maintains, by increasing energy usage the company can hold down rates for all customers. So far, though, most of the utility's frugal customers seem to look upon hot tubs, affordable or not, as frivolous purchases. Only about 30 have bought tubs during the first seven weeks of the program, well short of W.W.P.'s ultimate goal...
...Social Security of $296 monthly will help. I was able to get work at a nearby hospital at $4.10 hourly as a ward clerk -- completely out of my past experience of bookkeeping and accounting but it will pay routine bills, if we are very, very frugal...