Word: thrifting
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...Clinton became Governor and appointed McDougal his economic-development adviser. By the early 1980s, McDougal had left government work to make his fortune: he converted Madison Guaranty, a tiny institution, into one of the largest savings and loan associations in the state. But in 1989 federal regulators found the thrift to be nearly insolvent and shut it down. The following year McDougal was acquitted on charges of bank fraud. Now he's under investigation again...
...coffers. Some of it may also have been illegally funneled by McDougal into a real estate venture called Whitewater Development, which he and his wife owned with the Clintons. Another, peripheral issue: payments to Hillary Clinton when she represented Madison Guaranty in its bid to resist closure by state thrift regulators while Bill Clinton was Governor...
Slate was well-known in Cambridge for his Yankee thrift and unique, dry wit. He often ate lunch at Bartley's Burger Cottage on Mass. Ave., where he joked with friends about who could run the most thrifty business...
...characters on Seinfeld are more rounded and less stereotyped than practically any on TV. Kramer, for example, the next-door neighbor with the electric hair and thrift-shop wardrobe, could have been a typical sitcom shtick figure. Instead he's an impassioned eccentric with endless reserves of nuttiness. (After the group orders Chinese food, he shouts a final request into the phone: "And extra...
...Americans may be ready to switch from impulse buying to panic saving, driven in part by fear of layoffs. That turnabout would be rich in irony. After years of being exhorted to save money and reduce debt, consumers who finally do that are likely to find their newfound thrift hobbling the recovery...