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Even camping--that mainstay of penny-pincher vacations--might look different this year, thanks to gas prices. State parks in New York, Maine and Vermont have all reported an increase of 10% to 15% in camping reservations over last year. But more campers will be arriving not by gassy RV but by car--or even motorbike. Campgrounds have become more motorcycle-friendly in recent years to cater to that growing market. Chris Rhie, 23, says he plans to ride his new Suzuki motorcycle--which gets 50 m.p.g.--from San Francisco to Yosemite for a camping trip with his girlfriend this...
...court to prevent release of the memoir. So far, the testimony of government witnesses in the case has been embarrassingly inconsistent. British Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong has admitted that he was "economical with the truth" on the stand. The defense also noted that British officials allowed Journalist Chapman Pincher to publish a book in 1981 that contained similar material...
...Besides Walt and Skeezix, the cast of central characters includes Avery, the penny-pincher, Bill the affable mechanic, and Doc, "adviser to the alley both as to physical ailments and mechanical ills." Women, at least at first, have only minor roles, with two exceptions. Mrs. Blossom, an attractive young lady of mysterious background appears halfway through this first volume to create some tension with the determined bachelor Walt. These sorts of plot developments - another involves a phony oil futures huckster - give the strip a narrative drive that take it well beyond a mere joke a day about cars and kids...
That sounds more like a threat than a promise to critics who think U.S. Healthcare has earned higher marks as a penny pincher than as an efficient health-care crusader. U.S. Healthcare spends about 75 cents of every dollar in premiums on medical care, compared with the 81 cents averaged by managed-care plans in general and the 85 cents spent by Aetna specifically. That means that 14.5 cents of every U.S. Healthcare dollar goes to administration and 10.5 cents goes to profit--an interesting contrast with the 2 cents of every Medicare dollar that goes to administrative costs...
...professed penny pincher, McBride has been salvaging items from the trash around town for practically all of her 30 years living in the city. Fans, lamps and other electrical appliances are prize finds for McBride, but bicycle parts are particularly important for both her and the kids in her neighborhood...