Word: frugality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Pusey was not directly responsible for all new buildings built at the University during this time, Harvard's frugal, space-saving outlook would dominate most other considerations during this period of intense development that ended around 1977, when the Kennedy School of Government was built...
...these claims true? In a time of fiscal crisis (when the President says government must "demonstrate that we can be as frugal as any household"), the answers had better be clear, for Clinton has proposed a $10 billion increase in Head Start's budget authority over four years, the single largest requested rise for any government program and one that accounts for about 10% of all the new "investment" spending Clinton plans during his term...
...Chicago, still marvels at his father Frank's financial feats. "He's already paid for 18 years of college for five kids, and he was even unemployed for one of those years," says Kurt. "I asked him, 'How did you do it?' " Easy, replies Frank: "I wasn't that frugal. We bought our first home in 1961 for $19,500, a brand-new three-bedroom in Jacksonville, Florida, with $5,000 down, and we just traded up, paying off loans with rapidly inflating housing prices." Nine houses and one apartment later, Frank and his wife Anita are feeling prosperous...
...very frugal," says Tomassoni, who flewin five recruits last year. "Other schools wouldfly people in before they take the SATs. We don'twine and dine them like other schools...
...Washington Post, which has some of the possible candidates for jobs in a Clinton Administration," says Terri Robinson, one of many area brokers who have been contacted by potential Democratic home buyers. The town houses of Georgetown and Cleveland Park are getting a look-over, says Robinson, although many frugal Democrats may end up settling in the less pricey suburbs of Maryland and Virginia. One upscale piece of D.C. real estate that has already crossed party lines: the $2.2 million Tracy Place town house that was the scene of parties hosted by socialite Georgette Mosbacher, wife of former Commerce Secretary...