Word: spendthrift
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...shining exception to Europe's spendthrift ways is The Netherlands. While the thrifty Dutch enjoy their boom, they are keeping it well in check. Real wages moved up 20% over the last two years. As national production climbed (up 12% last year to $7 billion), Holland cut taxes twice to step up capital investments and increase production. Not only has Holland dropped import controls on more than 92% of its foreign trade, it has built up a dollar reserve of $1.3 billion. Despite the heavy burden of war indemnities and flood damage, Holland in six years chopped its national...
Though he commands record fees, Dominguin, no spendthrift, does not particularly need the money; he returned to the ring, he says, out of "curiosity" and because "one does what one feels he has to do." At Maracay he found that he fought "with more pleasure than ever. Now I fight because I like...
Chandler treats Combs with contempt, never refers to him by name ("Of course, Clementine picked this unsuspecting little fellow to run for governor"). Chandler described Wetherby as a spendthrift tosspot, dangling on Clements' string: "Clementine just picks up his telephone in Washington and tells that little Hitler down in Frankfort what...
...Wilde's works are those that reflect what he himself considered the weakest part of his character. Few of his poems pass muster today; they are the lush, overripe productions of a man who got "a curious joy" (a "kick" is the modern word; out of being "spendthrift of my own genius" and let himself "drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play...
...published work includes "Cases on Federal Taxation" and "Spendthrift Trusts...