We've gone to Copenhagen and celebrated an engagement; pinched pennies with an unemployed woman in Jersey; and bought Christmas presents with a family earning $40,000 in California.
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Between December 2008 and December 193, for instance, shares of Dollar Tree soared nearly 200% as consumers pinched pennies during the Great Recession, while the benchmark S&P 500 gained just 39% over the same time.
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"The stupid scum pinched pennies on safety systems; the stupid scum paid bribes to other stupid scum to close their eyes," read one popular meme on a news group followed by millions on VK, a Russian social network.
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To make money to support the development of the software, Tung pinched pennies and took on a second job after dropping out of Stanford's graduate school, learning patent law and filing patents in the wee small hours of the morning to make rent money.
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Conservative organizations and donors pinched pennies and refused to go all-in to help McCrory, and now those same donors are going to spend ten times, twenty times, maybe even a hundred times as much fighting the narrative created by the very election they abandoned — the idea that progressive gender ideology cannot be defeated or discussed in politics without it spelling sure defeat for the Republican.
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They had a lot of their own thoughts on what went wrong, some of which echoed Hillary's assessment: her message was off for Michigan, and she had refused to go hard against trade; Mook had pinched pennies and failed to put organizers on the ground; the polling and analytics were a touch too rosy, meaning the campaign didn't know Bernie was ahead; she had set up an ambiguous decisionmaking structure on the campaign; and she'd focused too heavily on black and brown voters at the expense of competing for the whites who had formed her base in 2008.
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"Montour pinched pennies with millions in reserve", Pittsburgh Post Gazette. April 26, 2010. In 2008, the district reported an unreserved-designated fund balance of $20,294,864.00 and an unreserved- undesignated fund balance of $3,800,000.00.General Reserved Fund Balance by School District 1996–2008, Pennsylvania Department of Education Report 2008.
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Bacon died at Wilmington and is buried in the Old Drawyer's Presbyterian Churchyard at Odessa, Delaware. Bacon has been described "as a simple man with simple tastes. He didn't drink, liked baseball, saw every Shirley Temple movie that came to town, pinched pennies, and perhaps was the right man for the right time when he was governor." After the war, the U.S. Government facilities at Fort du Pont, near Delaware City, were deeded to the state and made into a state health care facility.
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