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...then). From credit-card companies for the drinks so expansively signed for that day the office staff knocked off early to spend the afternoon toasting one another's health. In many households those bills will not be paid for months, during which time the families will have to scrimp. Says A.J. Monjure III, director of Greater New Orleans' Consumer Credit Counseling Service: "Now is when people get in trouble, after the holidays. They just skipped the creditors, and now all of the bills have started coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...small plane carrying them to a victory celebration. As a fillin, Hearnes, who had been a distant second in the primary, looked like a loser from the start. He had only about $151,000 in campaign funds for the battle with Danforth, who spent $600,000. Forced to scrimp, Hearnes served as his own campaign manager, advance man, and even driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From an Irish Pat to a Dixy Lee | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...ever to achieve the high standard of living taken for granted in the West. Laudable though that ambition may be, many Western leaders find it hard to accept the Shah's argument, especially since he frequently combines it with moralizing messages about the need for industrial nations to scrimp and economize. Iran is one of the handful of nations that has helped push Western Europe to the edge of economic disaster -and has begun a major redistribution of wealth. Whether he is seen as hero or villain, the Shah cannot be ignored. Thus it is no accident that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Oil, Grandeur and a Challenge to the West | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...until next Monday. Preppies at Exeter in New Hampshire and students at Harvard and Radcliffe are getting an extra week off, and Princetonians will not return to the campus until Jan. 21-if then; they are to call in for instructions beginning Jan. 16. Meanwhile, all these schools can scrimp on fuel by keeping classrooms empty and unheated longer than usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPACT: Conserving to Learn | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Radcliffe athletic teams have had to scrimp on expenses and make do with ssbstandard facilities. Radcliffe's crew, for example, national champions last year, funded its activities largely through independent contributions because the Radcliffe athletic department had insufficient resources to back a nationally-competitive program...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 9/28/1973 | See Source »

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