Word: tightwads
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Remember the tightwad tourist whose baggy shorts, frequent complaining and shouted questions about why none of the locals spoke any English made the ugly American the world's Visitor from Hell? Well, it's time for Archie Bunker to move over and make way for Petulant Pierre. According to a recent international survey, the French are now considered the most obnoxious tourists from European nations, behind only Indians and the last-place Chinese as the worst among countries worldwide. And it's not just the rest of the world that has a gripe with the Gallic attitude: the French also...
...Budd Friedman, who was just as much of a tightwad as Mitzi Shore and had struggled for years to keep his club afloat in New York, didn't pay his comedians either - in New York or L.A. - but he smartly positioned himself as a friend to the strikers. His L.A. club had been severely damaged in a fire just before the strike began, but he set up a makeshift performance space in the bar area of the club and continued to operate, promising to abide by whatever agreement the comics reached with Mitzi. Meanwhile, with most of her talent...
...disaster, attributable almost entirely to the Corps. It should have been a teachable moment. But in Congress there's still rabid bipartisan support for the status quo - as long as all 535 members can bring home their pet water projects. President Bush has not usually distinguished himself as a tightwad, but when it comes to the Corps - an agency he doesn't control as much as he'd like - his budgets have been consistently stingy...
...into his office on a day when he wasn't there and seeing a legal pad on his desk listing more than 50 issues, with a grade beside each one indicating how well he believed he'd mastered it. Proxmire was, not surprisingly, a workaholic, and also a notorious tightwad. He worked seven days a week and was grumpy on holidays when Federal offices closed, and regularly reimbursed the Senate for unused staff money. After a junket to Europe as a junior senator, he decided such trips wasted taxpayer money, and never again traveled abroad on the federal dollar...
...Japan. The U.S. ranked No. 7, as it did two years ago, when the survey was previously conducted. Among major cities, Montreal, Melbourne and Toronto proved most affordable. On the other end of the scale, Yokohama, Japan; Frankfurt, Germany; and London cost the most. And then, for the true tightwad, there is the cheapest of the cheap: Sherbrooke, a city of 138,000 in Quebec. Everyone say bon marche...