Word: frugalities
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...only United Kingdom squad in the Cup finals. At Westminster, M.P.s were forced to break with a tradition of holding parliamentary by-elections on Thursdays, when one at Hamilton, near Glasgow, conflicted with World Cup opening ceremonies. Faced with a $2,500 airfare to Argentina, a number of frugal Scottish supporters flew to New York City and hitchhiked south, and at least two made the trip on bicycles...
...wandering evangelist, MacArthur bought Bankers Life & Casualty during the Depression for $2,500 and through mail-order techniques built it into America's second largest health and accident underwriter. Although he also had multimillion-dollar interests in other companies and in real estate, MacArthur maintained an eccentric and frugal existence, pocketing desserts he could not finish on airplane flights and picking up discarded soft drink bottles to turn in for their deposits. During the last few years, he lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment and conducted much of his business from a local coffee shop...
...acquaintances could find to tell reporters about him were that he loves to sing but has no voice, and that he delights in telling jokes but usually laughs so hard at them that he botches the punch lines. Otherwise, Miller sounds like a business version of a Boy Scout: frugal, industrious, a sharp manager, something of a social activist-and a man whose likely moves as the nation's supreme money manager are impossible to predict from his career...
...minuscule staff from a bungalow in Burbank known locally as the Taco Bell because of its resemblance to the fast-food joints. "If I've got a six-pack under my arm, a few pieces of paper and a couple of pencils, I'm in business," says the frugal proprietor...
...Humphrey's protege long before he ever heard of Jimmy Carter, suggested that the President stop off on his way back to Washington from a fund-raising dinner in California to pick up Humphrey and his wife Muriel in Minneapolis. Joshed Humphrey: "I waited, because I am a frugal man, until I could get a free ride. For at least 20 years I have been trying to get on Air Force One. Just the thought of it, the vibrations, gave me new hope and new strength...