Word: tightwads
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...cooperation with Representative Dan Burton's Government Reform and Oversight Committee is not retribution but common sense: he believes it would be easier--and cheaper--to comply with a request for documents than pay his lawyer to cope with a subpoena. That's a plausible explanation from a patrician tightwad who hates to spend money (he sends his old suits out to be rewoven rather than buy new ones). In any case, Ickes draws a line between his treatment by the President and everyone else at the White House. Clinton tried to give Ickes the old desk used...
...about the great millennial Wired enchilada: the collapse of governments and economies under the weight of a gajillion interconnected, deregulated fiber-optic strands; the rise of the global village; the triumph of one-to-many communication; the demise of the clueless press. So what if he's such a tightwad that he makes his employees buy their own pens? His vision of the future inspires a dedicated young staff to work unbelievably hard; one of them brought a bunk bed into the office and lived there for months...
...about his style and vision: the heart surgery that was supposed to have mellowed him turns out to have made him even tougher; the egomaniac who was accused of driving away anyone talented enough to threaten his regime embraces Cap Cities' formidable president, Robert Iger, and his team; the tightwad who would never buy retail or take the big gamble for fear of making the big mistake goes and seals the deal of the year. "It took last year for it to be revealed that he wasn't warm and fuzzy," says a Disney executive. "But so what? Who cares...
Vandergelder is every bit as domineering and controlling as Dolly, although he goes When about it in a much more blunt manner. When his employees, Cornelius and Barnaby, (played by Michael DeVries and Cory English, respectively) ask for one night a week off, he displays his tightwad mentality by absolutely refusing and threatening to fire them. Vandergelder's employees live in terror of him; after taking an afternoon off without permission, they're constantly afraid he will catch them, a fear which is realized...
...broker-client is the most one-sided of all human relationships. Before you can open an account, brokers make you fill out a questionnaire in which you must reveal your net worth (something you wouldn't tell your best friend) and whether you are a gambler or a tightwad -- all in the interest of designing a custom-made portfolio. At the end of this inquisition the broker knows a great deal about you, whereas you know almost nothing about the broker. Then you hand over your life's savings to this total stranger...