As landlords' returns dwindled they skimped on repairs and upgrades.
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Moscow has also skimped on its agreed share of the cuts.
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SG: And food is something that we have never skimped on.
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The children went to public high schools, and the family skimped on luxuries.
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This apparently isn't the first time the president skimped on the arts either.
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Invitation tenants said their landlord charged excessive fees and skimped on upkeep of homes.
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But in recent years, like many other British industries, they have skimped on investment.
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But that doesn't mean that Trump skimped on the theatrics of the SpaceCom announcement.
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Despite the delay, there is evidence that the managed area has been skimped on.
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Huawei hasn't skimped on the details — up close or from afar, they appear flawlessly crafted.
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Even by its own admission, Lion has skimped on pilot training compared with other airlines.
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Some labs have skimped on maintenance, while others have made mistakes in setting up their machines.
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While Apple has essentially dominated every space it's entered, the tech giant hasn't skimped on price.
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But he skimped on the Sanitation Department, forcing the garbagemen to work with obsolete, dangerous machinery.
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A Texas student skimped on luxuries and saved money for months to pay off his grandparents' $15,000 mortgage.
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I skimped on the CPU (Core i23), got a too-small SSD (22GB), and only have 2999GB of RAM.
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If you skimped on sleep last night or skipped breakfast this morning, your brain isn't functioning at its highest capacity.
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The bank skimped on staffing and resources that banks are supposed to have to thwart suspicious activities, the prosecutors said.
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For much of its existence, the company skimped on sales tax, which it only recently began paying in all 50 states.
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The season hasn't skimped on Gilead's horrors—its warping suffocation, the parade of horrors to which you must give empty acquiescence.
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What you need to do is replace that crappy WiFi router that you skimped on when you first moved into your place.
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Singer Sophie Beem had a lot going on with her bell-bottom jumpsuit, but skimped on the material in the cleavage department.
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" The statement continued: "Safety is not something ever skimped on in any of our 19 shows and all matches are made equal.
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I'm buying food for my entire family and I want them to feel welcome, so I haven't skimped on the shopping list.
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By the time most clients buy a policy, they have skimped on a number of areas to get an affordable premium, Witt said.
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Touted as more powerful and cheaper than other models, the RBMK was also considered so safe that the Soviets skimped on protective containment structures.
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Yahoo, which has confirmed it was still using MD5 at the time of the attack, disputed the notion that the company had skimped on security.
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Airlines like Indonesia's Lion Air skimped on the upgrades, hampering crew members who were trying to pull the plane out of its fatal nose dive.
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Colombian aviation authorities found that Bolivian airline company LaMia had skimped on fuel, causing the plane to plummet into a mountainside before it could reach the airport.
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Trump said that negotiators in Congress, who crafted a deal giving him much less money for the wall than he had demanded, "skimped" on funding new barrier.
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He wrote a book about it called A Crisis Wasted, arguing that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) skimped on long-term investments in economic renewal.
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If you like a lot of accessories for displaying your replicas, however, Playmobil certainly hasn't skimped on what you'll find in the box with the 911 Targa 145S.
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Lest you think Sony has skimped on any of the construction here, the headphones feature magnesium diaphragms with aluminum-coated edges, sheepskin ear pads, and a titanium headband.
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Kopra hasn't skimped on any fillings, pepper jack is a top-notch cheese choice and each ingredient is equally distributed across the tortilla to ensure a well-rounded bite. Nice.
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A report from the state's non-partisan Legislative Analyst Office estimates the state has been skimped on about $1.5 billion in revenue, totaling 2.5% of the state's property tax value.
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Critics claim the Title IX rules have skimped on due-process protections for accused students, while victims' advocates have insisted the federal directives are critical in providing rights for campus rape victims.
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Maybe. Or maybe they felt extra guilty eating candy every day, and they knew they were going to be weighed by strangers wearing lab coats (weird!), so they skimped on other meals.
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A growing number involve workers reaching retirement age, who discover that—because they fall through gaps in the welfare safety-net, or because employers skimped on pension contributions—a meagre future awaits.
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Sometimes, as in the case of Grenfell Tower, it seems justified since the (preliminary) evidence is that the Kensington and Chelsea Council skimped on the quality of the building's insulation and fire doors.
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While many aspects of his leadership are ambiguous for now—Trump skimped on policy details during the election—the impact of his appointments will likely resonate throughout the environment, climate, and energy industry.
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As a writerly contrivance, you can do this once or twice; when you do it over and over the reader begins to think, Maybe she skimped on the self-help books about writing.
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The government camp claimed that he failed to contain an outbreak of dengue fever, that he skimped on overseeing flood-relief efforts to attend a lavish dinner — and even that he slept until noon.
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Speaking of the twins, Shannon's relationship with Amira and Shazad — and how she handles explaining their previously unknown biological father's return — is also skimped on in favor of more scenes between Tray and his kids.
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Large East Coast publications covered Trump's background and his faulty business records and failed deals, but the rest of the country's media — which the majority of voters pay attention —skimped on those stories, Brown argued.
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As with last year's replica, the new Porsche 911 Targa 24S is first and foremost a kid's toy, so it can take a beating during playtime, but that doesn't mean that Playmobil has skimped on the details.
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It is true that he brought us the first black attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., but he largely skimped on black cabinet appointments until pressured by black politicians to name more African-Americans in his second term.
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Sure, this could be a therapeutic attempt to shed some emotional dead weight, or it could be as simple as knowing she skimped on her Olaplex treatments and wanting to ditch that post-blonde breakage sooner rather than later.
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" At a parliamentary committee hearing in September, Ms. Foote said the Conservatives had skimped on training for the 500 workers hired to run Phoenix, "versus actually buying into what IBM had advocated as the amount of training that really needed to take place.
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The chart below shows that as far as time goes, deescalation and mediation are not priorities in police training programs: The police academies have also skimped on community policing, which the Department of Justice made a priority more than 20 years ago.
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They've skimped on a team that should be a showcase franchise for the game, and have used the team and its SNY network as a way to pay off the debts they incurred when they were caught up in a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
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We invested in a company called Hop, Skip, Drive – a ride service for kids founded by 3 working moms in LA. When we made the investment, there was a better-funded competitor in SF. That founder skimped on background checks and spent his money instead on marketing.
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In one of the largest surveys of data on global dietary habits and longevity, researchers found that consuming vegetables, fruit, fish and whole grains was strongly associated with a longer life — and that people who skimped on such healthy foods were more likely to die before their time.
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Tons of actors were on hand Sunday for the award show honoring folks in the SAG-AFTRA union, and nobody skimped on the swank -- including Michael B. Jordan (who wore a colorful Louis Vuitton harness over his tux), Lady Gaga who dazzled in a white gown, Viggo Mortensen who killed it with maroon ... and lots and lots of other stars who brought out their best outfits.
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The poles would span any crevasse into which he fell and allow him to pull himself out. He planned a very light run, with only a pack plus sled. He kept his gear light by planning to sleep in snow caves and therefore freeing himself from needing to carry a tent. He also skimped on fuel and planned to eat cold food.
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August 9, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2011. "None of this would be very convincing if manga artist Chigusa Kawai had skimped on the musical research, but she avoids one of the most common traps of this genre by showing us that native talent alone isn’t a guarantee of artistic ability; practice and a solid grounding in the fundamentals play equally important roles in a musician’s development." — Katherine Dacey, The Manga Critic.
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A wave of compassion comes over him, and he gives Stuey a hug. Enraged, Elijah unsuccessfully tries to fight Ricky, who bashes him in the head, breaking his spine. Skuggs tries to get Ricky not to kill him by offering him the antidote for his mutation, telling him it was a time-delayed serum baked into a batch of macaroons. Ricky comments that he skimped on the coconut and punches Skuggs, tossing him into the vat of Zygrot 24.
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The train line ended at the southern edge of the Bahariya Oasis. They spent the night in a simple canvas tent, eating a simple dinner of chicken and rice. By noon the next day, they were deep in the desert and the expedition to Bahariya was finally beginning. The caravan was significantly slowed as they had to find grazing areas, a rarity in the desert, for the camels because one of the team members had skimped on buying fodder for the animals.
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Sheridan said "I was working on Rafters from 5am to 6.30pm, then going straight to the studio, sometimes we worked all night on songs. But I pushed myself as far as I possibly could to make sure it was right... I don't think we skimped on quality." In September 2009, Sheridan released his debut single "Just Can't Throw Us Away", which peaked at number 73 on the ARIA Charts. The album's lead single, "All About Me" was released in October 2009 with the album released on 27 November 2009.
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If Callas Forever is compellingly acted . . . it is a skimpily produced movie that looks pasted together on a limited budget. The la-di-da ambience of divas and their courtiers rings true for its era, but the fussy hothouse atmosphere of unrestrained diva-worship is ultimately more than a little stifling."The New York Times review Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times stated, "The visual style is all Zeffirelli, and it is interesting that the opera-within-the-film is not skimped on, as is usually the case in films containing scenes from other productions.
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Construction of the tunnels was well-supervised by the SER, for it had been discovered by this time that the contractors who had built the tunnels on the Hastings line had skimped on the construction by using an insufficient number of rings of bricks to line the tunnels. Rectification resulted in a restricted loading gauge on that line, a situation that was to last until 1986. This "cut-off" line, in length, reached on 1 July 1865. This station was replaced with a new one further south which opened on 2 March 1868 when the line was extended to and . The line between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge opened to freight in February 1868, and passengers on 1 May 1868.
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Another typical design flaw: in this example, the decision to create another 45-degree wall just for the main entrance led to an awkward layout even of the roof McMansions often mix a variety of architectural styles and elements, combining quoins, steeply sloped roofs, multiple roof lines, complicated massing and pronounced dormers, all producing what some consider an unpleasant jumbled appearance. The builder may have attempted to achieve expensive effects with cheap materials, skimped on details, or hidden defects with cladding: :Though construction quality may be subpar and materials shoddy (from faux stucco to styrofoam crown molding and travertine compounded from epoxied marble dust), McMansion buyers are eager; the real-estate writer locates them in the generation of my angst-ridden Boston University students: "mostly young, mobile, career-oriented, high- salaried 30- and 40-something individuals" who are too time-squeezed to hire an architect but seek "a luxury home" that they might soon (and easily) sell whenever "it's time to move on." Frequently, priority in McMansions construction is given to the interior layout. It has been claimed that this causes the exterior appearance to suffer from an "amorphous" or "bloated" quality.
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