Some millionaires reach seven figures through hustling and penny pinching.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - KFC's penny-pinching ways have left it stuffed.
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When it comes time to penny-pinching, sometimes you have to get creative.
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Jack created Vanguard as a penny-pinching institution owned by its funds' shareholders.
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This is pointless penny-pinching that will harm a small group of people's livelihood.
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An enduring caricature of the old-time Republican is the penny-pinching deficit hawk.
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Most governments will be too slow-moving or penny-pinching to effectively make this call.
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Some of those penny-pinching moves haven't sat well with its army of delivery-people.
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Tanja's book Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way, published earlier this year.
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That way, you can skip the penny-pinching, (and also make the look your own).
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Millennials are more often associated with the penny-pinching $1 Venmo charge than with charitable giving.
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Despite Ms Haley's comments, the reduction seems to be driven more by penny-pinching than ideology.
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She was a conservative leader who was penny-pinching on the schools and hospitals for years.
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You laugh when Shylock's servant, the clown Gobbo, contemplates running away from his penny-pinching master.
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That a rearview camera is a $403 extra seems rather penny-pinching for a luxury brand.
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But offstage, as this film suggests, Gottfried is a soft-spoken, penny-pinching husband and father.
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I&aposd like to think that they are also on board with our penny-pinching ways.
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It's abundantly clear that under President Donald Trump Uncle Sam has become a penny-pinching donor.
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Thanks to income from side hustles and contract work — and some penny-pinching habits — they broke even.
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Some of the top 10 penny-pinching cities were Orlando, Florida; Washington, Charlotte, North Carolina; and New York.
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So, other than working more or penny pinching, what can you do to save serious money each month?
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After all, many penny-pinching riders prefer to wait until after it is over before hailing a ride.
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Cost is their bottom line, and they prioritize their penny-pinching spending habits over quality, value, and time.
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For various reasons — including bureaucratic inertia and penny-pinching — many railroads still don't have functioning systems in place.
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Mr López Obrador, a populist with penny-pinching instincts, is trying to transform Mexico without undermining its economic stability.
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It operates at a 2% to 3% administrative cost, which should be the envy of every penny-pinching politician.
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Wrap it in $100 bills and you will still come out looking like an inconsiderate, penny-pinching gift giver.
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But if you're focused on penny-pinching, you may be missing out on opportunities in your life and business.
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Not only are the cuts deeper, but forthcoming changes seem more to do with penny-pinching than real reform.
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But to do it, the company needed an important ally: a penny-pinching Taiwan-based factory operator named Foxconn.
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The heavy indebtedness means that ordinary Australians are penny pinching at a time when wages growth is painfully slow.
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Becoming a one-stop shop for penny-pinching customers who want occasional high-margin treats will improve Tesco's standing.
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The motivation for their penny pinching: to gain the approval of the social worker conducting their adoption home study.
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Of course, the price is a major factor, but this line isn't just for penny-pinching brides on tight budgets.
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But, given that the shipbuilding programs are already plagued with cost overruns and delays, penny-pinching options are becoming valuable.
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But it wasn't penny-pinching that got me there; rather, it was in large part thanks to my abundance mindset.
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That's not much, but it continues to feel like ill-disguised penny pinching from the world's biggest and richest tech company.
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Voters "are finally growing weary of austerity, of the rationing, outsourcing and penny-pinching," wrote James Ely in The Financial Times.
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For those that are really penny-pinching, check out Couch Surfing or campsites near your destination for digs that are practically free.
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Even better news for us penny-pinching cynics — we can add the two extra layers of weather defense for less than $15.
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He and his wife, Dorothy Chattin, a retired graphic designer, do not think of their moderate penny pinching as rooted in fear.
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But most voters in Washington and Oregon don't know that — they're just seeing ads with plain-spoken farmers and penny-pinching moms.
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Post-'86, we've seen various swings of the pendulum back and forth between budget-busting Republican tax cuts and penny-pinching Democrats.
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Banks and insurance companies, the biggest customers, have been in penny-pinching mode of late; ditto energy companies struck by falling oil prices.
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" Negative employee reviews: "Google management are surprisingly penny pinching in allocating sufficient resource to projects by way of staff, office space, and budget.
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Mr. Van Dyke also appears in the new version in a different role, as the son of the penny-pinching banker Mr. Dawes.
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China's trade war with the United States slowed its economy and sapped metal demand, prompting the penny-pinching by the Chinese steel mills.
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Frans Carbo, a senior official with the union FNV, said the closing of prisons was the result of penny-pinching — not effective policing.
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It worked so well — they saved a four-figure sum — that they kept it up and now share their penny-pinching activities online.
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There just wasn't space for guests, and I was worried they would judge me for making this lifestyle decision as a penny-pinching effort.
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Penny pinching: Jolly has let leases on less-successful stores expire, laid off managers, consolidated overseas divisions, reassigned Geek Squad members, and cut prices.
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For decades, Kool-Aid had been sold in powder form as a cheaper alternative to soda, with ads aimed squarely at penny-pinching housewives.
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Kraft Heinz, a recently assembled conglomerate selling its namesake macaroni and ketchup, is known for ruthless cost cutting, huge layoffs and relentless penny pinching.
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Amid soaring prices, real estate purchases across Chinese cities often follow years of penny-pinching and the contribution of life savings from parents and grandparents.
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In today's economy, inflation outpaces the interest rates that banks pay to encourage saving money — this makes penny pinching less prudent than many might think.
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Penny pinching: The U.S. negotiated a $285 million reduction in its funding to the United Nations as part of the international body's 2018–2019 budget.
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The Ovid-Elsie school district sits an hour west of Flint, Michigan, the city now notorious for being poisoned by its own penny-pinching administrators.
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The grocery chain has broad appeal, from the health-conscious to the penny-pinching, and is rising in the ranks of the American grocery market.
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Asset managers and hedge funds are likely to continue penny pinching when it comes to research, Pinto said Tuesday at a conference in New York.
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Ford brilliantly established his brand as a penny-pinching, frank-talking city councillor who bemoaned the government's neglect of taxpayers — and taxpayers ate it up.
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" The famously penny-pinching Mook reported that the former president was "particularly willing to do local events on the east coast — PA, NJ, MA, etc.
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He is still a penny-pinching fiscal hawk, ever concerned about the state's financial health, at times to the chagrin of his overwhelmingly Democratic legislature.
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Mr Macron is also hoping to lean on public opinion, explaining, for instance, that his plans for pensions and training are not just about penny-pinching.
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They've also launched "Budget Bytes," a show about money-saving meals hosted by cookbook author Beth Moncel, who finds penny-pinching recipes for leftover stuffing muffins.
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That's a far cry from the defense project penny-pinching Trump persona that emerged in his tweets and public comments during most of the transition process.
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Efficiency doesn't mean penny-pinching, but instead, finding entrepreneurs who orient their business around a technology or business model that is intrinsically more effective at multiplying capital.
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In a penny-pinching move, Sheffield Wednesday, the football club that plays at Hillsborough, had decided not to invest in the safety measures its crumbling home needed.
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In her book, "Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way," she said that it really comes down to whether you value certainty or flexibility more.
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But right now, the company is losing money hand over fist (not an uncommon practice among unicorns but not exactly a ringing endorsement of WeWork's penny-pinching).
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Many residents have for years accused the council of allowing penny-pinching to override fire safety when the building undertook the renovation, which was completed last year.
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December spoils us with festivity and decadent crisps, and the first month of the year throws us back into monotony, and penny-pinching, and the freezing, unforgiving cold.
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Aptly nicknamed "Tightwad Hill," this mountain of dirt and trees that rises above the stands of Cal's Memorial Stadium is the unofficial gathering spot for penny-pinching fans.
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Between the lines: Axios' Jonathan Swan has reported that there has been an ongoing tussle between debt-loving President Trump and his penny-pinching Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
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It's penny-pinching where you can — you have to do a lot of things yourself versus bigger brands who would pay an assistant or company to do florals.
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The penny-pinching drive is in place for the rest of financial year until end-March and will most likely continue into the coming business year, they said.
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Liverpool have a history of dirty penny-pinching tactics, like buying out the neighborhoods surrounding Anfield and letting them decay in an attempt to drive down real estate prices.
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So whether you're an environmentalist, a penny-pinching commuter or someone like me who yearns to feel open, free and one with your vehicle, you'll likely love the Arcimoto.
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Perhaps as a result of his low-income upbringing, which included his family relying on coupons and money saving deals, Adams said focusing on penny pinching gives him anxiety.
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Robert Gates, for example, said in Brussels in 2011 that European penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat in Afghanistan was putting the future of the alliance at risk.
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That rhetoric stands directly at odds with their promise to offer low prices every day, underscoring just how tightly they're being squeezed as they compete for penny-pinching shoppers' dollars.
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Some parents are almost neurotically responsible, passing down a sense of penny-pinching thrift as though it were an heirloom; others prize idealism, encouraging their children to follow their dreams.
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Now — to the great welcome of penny-pinching travelers — the trend in lodging to embody the location has trickled down to budget hotels and even brands generally regarded as cookie cutter.
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Some suggest that he bought a lifetime flying pass from United many years back and has made the most of it ever since, presumably much to the penny-pinching airline's chagrin.
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Flailing and penny pinching and being uncertain about a next paycheck is hard, though if you're alone it can sometimes seem romantic, or at the very least a good learning experience.
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There's no time like the present to break bad financial habits, but we're not talking about giving up your store-bought coffee, abandoning your avocado toast, or penny pinching in other ways.
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With some of the tougher subject matter, like the chorus of "Everybody Works," where she's penny pinching to survive living off of her work, she comes out with her vocal range swinging.
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The media mogul opened up about her penny-pinching habits on the OWN network, and said that she saves pantyhose with runs in them so they can be repurposed into DIY Spanx.
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The organizations have spent more than $25 million on commercials that feature plain-spoken farmers and penny-pinching moms urging support of ballot measures that would prohibit municipalities from taxing food sales.
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"Through public neglect and legislative penny-pinching, state after state has allowed its institutions for the care and cure of the mentally sick to degenerate into little more than concentration camps," Maisel wrote.
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Still, many Boston fans do not want to hear about financial considerations, and they have already begun criticizing the ownership team of John Henry and Tom Werner for their pivot to penny-pinching.
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A close second is Stanley Tucci's penny-pinching, masseuse-groping, grudge-holding studio head Jack Warner, the ultimate expression of the old studio system's ugly power and privilege, even in its dying throes.
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The campaign has just half that amount scheduled, and late this week shifted ad money around rather than increasing its overall investment, suggesting a bit of penny-pinching even as the clock winds down.
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Summoned before a parliamentary committee on defence, India's service chiefs revealed not only dire shortfalls in equipment and investment, but mounting frustration with a pettifogging civilian defence bureaucracy and the government's penny-pinching ways.
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Granted, penny-pinching food shoppers are not likely to do the bulk of their buying at Whole Foods, which hasn't been able to shake the nickname "Whole Paycheck," because of its pricey organic goods.
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But now its expansion into Facebook's top developed world markets makes it a tool for penny-pinching users like teenagers who want to avoid burning away their pricey megabytes but still stay in touch.
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" From then on, Shea Butter Baby is as intimate as girl talk, with Lennox journeying through the milestones of adulthood, celebrating the freedom of walking around naked on "New Apartment" and penny-pinching on "Broke.
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Hester, a blogger at Our Next Life and the author of "Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way," told Business Insider they think about money a lot less than they did while saving.
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LOS ANGELES — "I hate Apu," the actor Kal Penn says in a new documentary about the penny-pinching, Squishee-slinging, thickly accented convenience store owner on one of the most celebrated TV shows in history.
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Tanja Hester wrote in her book, "Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way," that reducing your housing expenses could free up hundreds of dollars a month, which could then be funneled into investments.
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When buyers complain about corner-cutting in the construction of a Trump-branded apartment complex ("value engineering", he calls such penny-pinching in "The Art of the Deal"), they harm the value of their own asset.
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The result is a country whose philosophy has changed from unbridled optimism to defeated penny-pinching — unless, of course, the vast public outlays are directed to big businesses and billion-dollar sports stadiums owned by billionaires.
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The money will be used to reduce debt, a spokesman for the Federal Finance Administration said, dismissing grumbling from some politicians that larger-than-expected surpluses had become a habit for penny-pinching Finance Minister Ueli Maurer.
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And the Brooklyn campaign headquarters — which would end up outspending Trump's campaign by nearly 2 to 1 — frustrated coordinators in battleground states like Colorado by penny-pinching and cutting back on television, direct mail and digital advertising.
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It's partly a backlash against the one-size-fits-all mind-set, not to mention the corporate penny-pinching, embodied in the move toward pure open floor plans that packed more workers into less and less space.
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The 1925 Colonial home was used for exterior shots in the 1991 film – starring Steve Martin as doting but penny-pinching dad George Banks, with Diane Keaton as his flustered wife Nina – as well as the 1995 sequel.
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This 1668 play about a penny-pinching father, Harpagon, and his scheming children is a revered classic in France, and the translator Justin Fleming here attempts to find an English substitute for the formidable rhythm of Molière's dialogue.
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Poor customer service has convinced me to avoid Spirit in the futureI have never experienced with another airline anything close to the degree of incompetence, carelessness, and penny-pinching Spirit has demonstrated across my three flights with the airline.
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At a penny-pinching $50, the 7-inch e-reader tablet Nook thing came loaded with features: two cameras, built in wi-fi, a 7-hour battery life, and the same ADUPS spyware that infected thousands of Blu phones last month.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mutual fund managers are shifting their portfolios from Mexican exporters and manufacturers into companies that focus on penny-pinching consumers as fears over President Donald Trump's trade and immigration policies threaten to disrupt relations between the two countries.
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"You don't know how long you're going to play, you've got to save every dollar even though you are making a good salary," Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins told the Wall Street Journal for an article about the penny-pinching pigskin players.
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Fortunately, by keeping my frugal bearings and getting creative — exploring free galleries, happy hours, local art and music, even a bit of lawn bowling — I discovered ways to play the part of a millionaire while maintaining my penny-pinching ways.
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Thought bubble: Walmart's effort to seek out and favor high-quality providers, even when it comes at a near-term cost, is a stark contrast to the penny-pinching and cost-shifting that define so much of the employer market.
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Ending free food on short-haul routes, ancient video screens, evasive call centres, cramming in more seats, charging for bags and seat allocation on shorter routes and other money-saving measures looked like penny-pinching and have hurt its upmarket image.
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At the head of the pack are the Los Angeles Dodgers, who hired GM Andrew Friedman away from the penny-pinching Rays in October of 268, and then gave him a quarter of a billion dollars to build the team of his dreams.
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I think a lot of it comes down to how we were raised: My parents were more lax in spending, although they taught me how to save money, too, but his were very, very frugal, so he takes penny-pinching to an extreme.
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Cause for concern: How right-handed pitching prospects Brent Honeywell and Jose De Leon return from each undergoing Tommy John surgeries last spring is key to the future of the penny-pinching Rays, who open the season with the lowest payroll in baseball.
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While Plummer's portrayal of Getty as an imperious, penny-pinching plutocrat has a timely aspect in this age of income disparity, those very qualities border on caricature, as the movie's sympathies reside with Getty's daughter-in-law Gail, played by Michelle Williams.
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And, check out these 4/33 promotions for those penny-pinching potheads: The Leaf El Paseo dispensary in Palm Desert is giving customers 30% off all Flow Kana products and selling $110 ounces of hybrid strains Gelato and Scooby Doo Dog Walker.
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Of course, penny-pinching and staff shortages are found at state-run lockups, too (especially in places like Louisiana), but there is another consideration when a profit-seeking middleman gets involved: What happens when setting a prisoner free is detrimental to a company's bottom line?
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Some of them are still telling the Chinese that U.S. trade deficits and rising foreign debt are pre-ordained, because even in good years American spendthrifts save barely 6% of their after-tax income, while the penny-pinching Chinese squirrel away half of what they earn.
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With healthcare expenditures approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product, how can we justify penny pinching at the NIH on the one hand — the budget for which amounts to less than 1 percent of the federal budget — and complain about drug costs on the other?
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But Darius Lakdawalla, a professor studying health care economics and risk at the University of Southern California, argues in a 2015 editorial for the New York Times that any changes that wind up cutting drug prices would kill innovation — a risk that outweighs any penny-pinching benefit.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - While previous bouts of strength in the yen have pushed Japanese manufacturers to shift production overseas, exporters are coping with the recent currency stresses by penny-pinching - turning off lights and cramming elevators in the hope that nothing more drastic will be needed before the tide turns.
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Richard Jablonski, 63, a friend of Ms. Via Cava's who knew her for decades before she died, said that her achievement was the result of a lifetime of penny-pinching: She wouldn't buy the hearing aids she needed, seemed to have few outfits and stopped going on vacations after her husband died.
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She's signed on for the full catastrophe, the calling in of loans he can't pay, the angry unpaid workers beating on the door at dawn, the disappearance of the furniture, the penny-pinching at the market, mutton stew for dinner again, then nothing but porridge, the midnight flight from creditors and the law.
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Over time, though, free trade and globalization and deindustrialization made that postwar system less economically viable; the decline of labor and the collapse of the New Deal coalition made it less politically necessary; and the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s made its implicit moral values (heteronormativity for workers, a kind of penny-pinching puritanism for bosses) seem less congenial and more oppressive.
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Where the latter product was so penny-pinching the company hadn't even paid to include in the box a user manual that contained actual words — opting, we must assume, to save on translation costs by producing a comic packed with inscrutable graphics and bizarro don't do diagrams which only served to cement the fast-cooling buyer's conviction they'd been sold a total lemon — the Roborock's box contains a well written paper manual that contains words and clearly labeled diagrams.
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