Word: tightwads
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Innovative as it is, the Audubon building might be written off as an impractical exercise in spare-no-expense radical environmentalism, except for one thing: the society demanded that every design decision had to satisfy the kind of bottom-line scrutiny a tightwad CEO would apply. Though it cost up to 10% more to build green than to build conventionally, Audubon president Peter Berle insisted that every environmental measure taken in the $14 million project had to justify its cost within a five-year period. Says Berle: "It was an opportunity to build a structure that would both save Audubon...
...home, they will be learning lessons that should improve their chances of doing business abroad. Frenetic consumers who spent much of the decade trying to have it all and wondering how to deal with the resulting stress may find unexpected serenity in their backyards. A touch of the tightwad is a much needed correction after the excesses...
...income groups, which would return the most tax dollars to those who pay the most taxes. House Democratic leaders, who are pushing for a 15% tax cut over two years, would give only minimal reductions to individuals earning more than $50,000. "The President may be a real tightwad when it comes to programs that help working families," proclaimed House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neil to cheering union members in Boston. "But when it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold...
...Nonsense Tightwad. Oddly, this figure has assumed the most traditional American role. He is the Jew become Yankee Trader?prudent, frugal, resourceful, strict; in Koch's case, ascetic to boot. On his shoulders lies the mantle of New England Protestantism, the mantle scorned and defiled by bona fide Protestants like former Mayor John Lindsay, and now handed over to the latest pioneers...
...Townshend's. He is also a skilled caricaturist and is now drawing A Cartoon History of The Who. In this work, Entwistle made up imaginary ancestors for each of the band members based on some of their salient characteristics. There is, for example, a certain Wild Bill Daltrey, a tightwad gunslinger who drills his victims with platinum bullets, then digs them out of the victim for reuse. Townshend's forebear is a Norman soldier who landed at Hastings in 1066, fell out of the boat onto his shield and invented surfing, acquiring in the process a hugely swollen nose. Entwistle...