Word: frugality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Notebook makers have managed to make their machines lighter and more energy-frugal, only to find their gains undone by the need to include the latest and greatest in their models. As soon as manufacturers perfected light and plastic cases and long-running lithium ion batteries, for instance, the coming of Pentium chips and bulky CD-ROM drives negated any winds for portability...
...GUIDE FOR THE FRUGAL FOOTBALL...
This is the value of Harvard's endowment at the end of fiscal year 1995. By 1996, the endowment's value had risen 26 percent to $9.1 billion, due mainly to the bull market, but just as important to this increase has been Harvard's frugal management of its precious nest...
...while Harvard spends in great magnitudes, it has been criticized for being frugal with its assets, both externally and internally--just like any good company would...
...Lost World cost about $75 million, peanuts compared with this summer's Speed 2: Cruise Control, heading for $140 million, and The Titanic, at about $200 million. During an Amistad pre-production conference, Spielberg flummoxed Katzenberg and DreamWorks film exec Walter Parkes by demanding that the already relatively frugal $56 million budget be cut an additional $20 million. "I saw The English Patient," he said. "I know we can do this for less." Spielberg enjoys talking about his work. "I'm deciding whether to use my castle or my second bishop," he says as he prepares a shot...