Word: skimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was still in high school, Eicher hitchhiked from his home in Lindau, on Lake Constance, into Munich to catch a Dizzy Gillespie concert, and a few years later, on scholarship to the august Berlin Academy of Music, he lived on yogurt so he would not have to skimp on his record collection. Production-assistant jobs around various Munich recording studios kept him in curds and vinyl until he met up with Karl Egger, a burly purveyor of discount audio and records. Egger suggested to Eicher that they record displaced American jazzmen who had fled the rock-dominated music...
...Church stumped the pit heads from Springfield, Ill., to Pittsburgh to push the pact, the union rebuffed it by a vote of more than 2 to 1. Many members argued that provisions in the contract gave mine operators power to lease coal property to nonunion companies as well as skimp on contributions to pension funds. On the other hand, industry officials seemed to feel that the rejection simply reflected the union's weakening grasp its members. Said one: "Facts had nothing to do with it. Rationality went out the window. What developed was emotion, suspicion and misinformation. It just...