Word: frugality
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...oblivious coaches on the screen, and exultantly replaying every Forty-Niner first down verbally. When wide receiver Dwight Clark made the amazing catch in the final seconds of the game that lifted the Forty-Niners to victory, Susan was almost deranged in her delight. In fact, my normally frugal roommate called home in the middle of the afternoon to Shriek to her father (who served as resident team physician at the Forty-Niner training camp last summer), "Did you see that catch...
...fiscal restraint, and the ambiguous outcome did credit to neither branch of Government. In what Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin aptly described as the "lost weekend," Ronald Reagan responded to his first defeat in Congress by casting his first veto. The President did so in defense of frugal government. Yet he acted at a moment when the Government was technically out of funds, and for one astonishing day, the federal bureaucracy actually began to shut down. Placed in a no-win situation, Congress grudgingly gave Reagan the minimum he had demanded: a temporary funding bill that extends present spending...
...frugal millionaire, Davis recently traded in his 1962 Chevrolet and bought a 1979 Lincoln Continental with 30,000 miles on it. "I still couldn't bring myself to get a new one," he says. Some day he may even break down and own a dog-Davis' wife is allergic to cats...
...Nonsense Tightwad. Oddly, this figure has assumed the most traditional American role. He is the Jew become Yankee Trader?prudent, frugal, resourceful, strict; in Koch's case, ascetic to boot. On his shoulders lies the mantle of New England Protestantism, the mantle scorned and defiled by bona fide Protestants like former Mayor John Lindsay, and now handed over to the latest pioneers...
...emotions," he says, adding that the challenge is to "make them well enough so that they work at 51% effort. If the movie is made at 100% effort, it is indulgent." And likely to suffer unbearable cost overruns. "Cimino made Heaven's Gate at 150%." Moviegoers, says the frugal Lucas, will buy a weakish special effect or even stock footage as long as their emotions are engaged. "If it gets dreary, then they notice," he says. In Raiders, only sharp-eyed cineasts will know that a shot of a DC-3 flying in the Himalayas was bought from...