Indeed, Kamprad's thriftiness laid the groundwork for the company's economical appeal.
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That's a level of thriftiness the Firefly crew would certainly appreciate.
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Farther along those streets, state-sponsored posters counseled thriftiness and restraint.
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Extreme frugality: Sanford has been criticized for taking thriftiness too far.
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Let's salute young girls around the world for their thriftiness and ingenuity!
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He learned thriftiness from his parents, who grew up during the Depression.
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It is possible that China's thriftiness got the better of it last month.
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Venessa Wong explored her shame about being frugal, and how she came to embrace her thriftiness.
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Taught by his father about business, about thriftiness, about using his sizable inheritance to make billions.
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It might well be that this thriftiness kept MLS afloat during a lot of difficult years.
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Lauding the wealthy for their thriftiness is also a way of blaming people for their own poverty.
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This decision to toss, said Dr. Egert, means balancing hygiene and sterility, thriftiness and a sustainable environment.
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People on the social network created memes inspired by Magufuli's thriftiness, sharing ways others could possibly save money.
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But thriftiness is no longer the only thing we want to see reflected in our bowl of chicken soup.
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Because she wasn't bringing in much in terms of salary, she relied on her own thriftiness to get by.
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So does the report actually reflect good, old-fashioned thriftiness — or a need to save brought on by tough times?
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Though he has many holdings, the thriftiness that was necessary during Li's childhood has carried over into his current career.
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My husband and I were also raised to believe in hard work, honesty and thriftiness; we are genetically indisposed to self-indulgence.
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It also provides planning, prep, storage and thriftiness tips to help families and individuals get the most out of the food they buy.
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In 1843, he established The Economist (the word's meaning at the time referred to thriftiness, rather than professional standing in the field of economics).
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According to Clark, Cousins' thriftiness dates back to his days at Michigan State, when he saved money by picking up golf balls for minimum wage.
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It's a cheap buy, but you'll be feeling the thriftiness as long as you own it and should only pick it up as a last resort.
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Yet Aldi had truly humble beginnings: It started as just a tiny shop in a German suburb run by two reclusive brothers with a knack for thriftiness.
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That thriftiness, also displayed in Mr Trump's business life, tells Mr Gingrich that President Trump will run a lean federal bureaucracy, root out waste and generally "kick over the table".
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Thriftiness brings with it a wariness of anything that might erode the value of such nest eggs, like Ms. Le Pen's plan to reintroduce a national currency alongside the euro.
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Twitter users at #WhatWouldMagufuliDo celebrate his thriftiness by suggesting amusing things he might approve of, such as wearing a curtain instead of buying new clothes and heating showers with a candle.
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Popular along Colombia's Caribbean coast, patacon con todo is a marvel of thriftiness and caloric excess that seems to claim a pedigree of indulgent cross-pollination among poutine, pizza, and leftovers.
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An ingrained thriftiness marked Blankenship's tenure at Massey, where his relentless quest to lower costs led him to embrace mountaintop removal mining and push safety and environmental rules to their breaking points.
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It's a little easier to justify when you put it that way — but then again, thriftiness probably isn't your first priority if you're considering purchasing a Diptyque car diffuser in the first place.
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" Britons, he said, relished reports of her legendary thriftiness, including stories, apocryphal or not, that she roams Buckingham Palace turning off lights, enjoys soap operas and eats "nonbanquet dinners out of Tupperware containers.
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Now, European regulators are accusing Mr. Kamprad's company of pushing the concept of thriftiness beyond the limits of the law by maneuvering to reduce its tax bill in the countries where it operates.
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It worked for my family: My dad's thriftiness helped him buy a home and start his own small business, and it helped my aunts purchase property back on the island for their retirement.
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On that reckoning, the German government's thriftiness accounts for a small but meaningful share of its growing current-account surplus; perhaps as much as three percentage points of GDP over the past five years.
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Germans revelling in record-high employment, a secure job market, rising wages and low borrowing costs are casting their traditional thriftiness aside to spend more, helping private consumption replace exports as the main growth driver.
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In the past, presidents who have addressed the Scouts at the Jamboree, held every four years, have tended to deliver homilies to the Scout Law, which describes 12 virtues including trustworthiness, loyalty, thriftiness and bravery.
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Uneven grounds, static mess, and overheating are some of the regular issues with burr grinders in the sub-$100 category, but OXO nearly eliminates them all with a thriftiness you can't help but appreciate — and respect.
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Over the past 20 years or so, this thriftiness has helped pushed interest rates — the price of money — down to near zero, making it hard for the Federal Reserve to cut rates further to stimulate the economy when needed.
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But before you start self-flagellating for bringing about this discomfort with your thriftiness, consider one final theory: no one is to blame for the worsening quality of air travel, because flying is actually much better than it used to be.
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But they're not the owners, the suits in the suites whose wallets never empty, who never pass along their "thriftiness" with lower ticket prices or cheaper beers, who exploit tax breaks and siphon off public funds to build private mansions.
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"(The show) made the emperor lifestyle's fashionable and something to strive for, polluted modern society with the concubine's back-stabbing mentality, beautified imperial China while ignoring the heroes of today, glorified luxury while attacking thriftiness and hard work," the newspaper said.
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Employed at Bethlehem Steel for $248 a day, and known among workmates for his physical vigor and thriftiness, Noll was—as the somewhat embellished story goes—selected by an ambitious young management consultant named Frederick Winslow Taylor for an experiment in 2110.
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By 27, the chain had more than 24 stores throughout Germany and the brothers' thriftiness had become a part of the store's DNA — they even refused to pay for telephones in their stores at the time, telling branch managers to use nearby pay phones, according to Forbes.
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That spirit of community-abetted thriftiness extended all the way to the film's Oakland premiere on April 12, where Riley wore a vintage three-piece suit that Regina Evans had given him gratis, "stuffed into a trash bag with a bunch of other suits," he said.
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He inherited millions from his parents, one of his friends told the AP. He was known for his thriftiness, such as duct-taping his shoes, striking deals at the local deli as it closed, buying his clothes from the grocery store and driving beat-up cars, the news service reported.
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But in New York, they built their new lives around the same thriftiness and communal support they'd learned back home, and they banked on their sacrifice paying off — if not in the fulfillment of their dreams, then in that of their children, who might help lift them out of poverty.
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First ladies in the past have used clothes to represent different aspects of themselves to complement the executive branch: Rosalynn Carter to symbolize her thriftiness; Barbara Bush to reflect her grandmotherly accessibility; Nancy Reagan to underscore her belief in the power of glamour to revive national pride; Michelle Obama, to suggest inclusivity and a new era.
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As empress, Empress Xu was known for her humility and thriftiness. She was also known for devotion to Grand Empress Dowager Shangguan, often meeting her for meals.
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His major play, Ang Piso ni Anita (Anita's One Peso Coin) won first place in a play writing contest sponsored by the Bureau of Posts. The play is all about thriftiness and was composed of three stages.
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Prior to 1933, Elert had been a constitutional monarchist.Becker, 110. "I was reared in the fear of God, thriftiness, and affirmation of the state."Elert, "Lebensbeschreibung" [biography], in the archives of the theology faculty at Erlangen University, cited by Green, 232.
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The pageants included songs about thriftiness set to popular music, cheers, speeches that quoted historical figures' opinions on thriftiness, and a play. In the plays, costumed children warned the audience about spending money on treats, movies, and penny arcades instead of putting the money in a savings bank where it would grow.Raising consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century, pages 65 - 67 By the end of the 1920s PSFS was the third largest savings bank in the United States and in 1935 was ranked thirty-fourth largest savings bank in the world. In 1932 PSFS built a new headquarters building on Market Street.
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He was well known when he exercised the Filipino First policy during his term in office. This policy heavily favored Filipino businessmen over foreign investors. He was also responsible for changes in retail trade which greatly affected the Chinese businessmen in the country. He also made a program focused on thriftiness.
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According to Annette Dunlap, Dawes was: :a self-made man who valued hard work and thriftiness tempered with Christian generosity. He spent his life promoting solid Republican values of small government with restrained budgets. Franklin Roosevelt’s philosophy of big government spending was anathema to him.Cited in Indiana Magazine of History, (2018) 114(1) p. 76.
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Thriftiness evaluates feeder cattle' overall health and expected performance in gaining weight to become a fed cattle. There are no strict guidelines as to grading thrift cattle, rather cattle with apparent health problems are graded as unthrifty and other cattle are categorized as thrifty. The above three factors and their segmented categories combine to form individual grades.
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Hetty Green circa 1905 Green's thriftiness was legendary. She was said never to turn on the heat or use hot water. She wore one old black dress and undergarments that she changed only after they had been worn out; she did not wash her hands and she rode in an old carriage. She ate mostly pies that cost fifteen cents.
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A country facing these seven disasters will be destroyed easily by the enemy. The measure of a country's wealth in Mohism is a matter of sufficient provision and a large population. Thriftiness is believed to be key to this end. With contentment with that which suffices, men will be free from excessive labour, long-term war and poverty from income gap disparity.
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Hereford cow and crossbred calf Many strains of Hereford have used other cattle breeds to import desired characteristics, and this has led to changes in the breed as a whole. However, some strains have been kept separate, and these have retained characteristics of the earlier breed, such as hardiness and thriftiness. The Traditional Hereford is now treated as a minority breed of value for genetic conservation.
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In agriculture, the returnees also popularized the use of Cassava as a food crop.Faluyi p 11,12. Agudas celebrated Easter with the coming out of Caretas or masked figures, burrinha at Epiphany and Nosso Senhor do Bonfim (Our Lord of the Good End) associated with Obatala was celebrated during yuletide. Popo Aguda was a close-knit community and residents were known for their thriftiness and a strong work ethic.
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His enemies exaggerated his faults; e.g. his supposed miserliness. In fact, it seems that his thriftiness was the result of long years spent in obscurity (when his income was uncertain and scanty) rather than part of his character, because he could also be generous. He helped his nephew Jean-François when he came to Paris and also helped establish the career of Claude-Bénigne Balbastre in the capital.
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"Elaine Stewart Gets Role In 'Brigadoon' On Screen" by Dorothy Manners, St. Petersburg Times, November 17, 1953, p. 36 Because of Kelly's commitments to other film projects, production was delayed for a while, and it did not begin until 1953. Initially, Minnelli and Kelly wanted to film on location in Scotland. Unfortunately, an unpredictable climate and higher location production costs (the latter not compatible with MGM President Dore Schary's thriftiness), forced them to change course.
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In this, he was matched perhaps only by Emperor Taizu of Song (Zhao Kuangyin). As the emperor of the unified empire, Emperor Guangwu's reign was marked by thriftiness, efficiency, and laxity of laws. For example, in AD 38, his official Liang Tong (梁統) submitted a petition to restore the criminal laws of late Western Han Dynasty—which were far more severe. After discussion with other officials, Emperor Guangwu tabled Liang's suggestion.
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Some opponents criticize capitalism's inefficiency. They note a shift from pre-industrial reuse and thriftiness before capitalism to a consumer-based economy that pushes "ready-made" materials. It is argued that a sanitation industry arose under capitalism that deemed trash valueless—a significant break from the past when much "waste" was used and reused almost indefinitely. In the process, critics say, capitalism has created a profit driven system based on selling as many products as possible.
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McCormick had always been a devout Presbyterian, as well as advocate of Christian unity. He also valued and demonstrated in his life the Calvinist traits of self-denial, sobriety, thriftiness, efficiency, and morality. He believed feeding the world, made easier by the reaper, was part of his religious mission in life. A lifelong Democrat, before the American Civil War, McCormick had published editorials in his newspapers, The Chicago Times and Herald, calling for reconciliation between the national sections.
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Born in Oshawa, Ontario, in 1856, he was the fourth of eleven children of Michael and Bridget O'Byrne. Shortly after, the family moved to Kirkfield, Ontario, where he would spend the majority of his childhood. His parents had emigrated from Ireland, and as part of the naturalization process, the family name was shortened to Byrne and then later to Burns. Patrick had very little formal schooling but learned a great deal about hard work and thriftiness from his parents.
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Jelcz M11 is a Polish step entrance city bus manufactured by Jelczańskie Zakłady Samochodowe in Jelcz-Laskowice near Oława from 1985 to 1990. From constructional side it was connection of modified body chasis of Jelcz PR110 and chasis of Ikarus 260. During production, there were no significant changes to the construction of the bus. The bus was created because of crisis and finding thriftiness currencies in Poland, needed for buying buses abroad and because of this M11 was treated as a temporary solution.
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Emperor Wen's reign and that of his son Emperor Jing were often collectively known together as the "Rule of Wen and Jing", renowned for general stability and relaxed laws. He was considered one of the most benevolent rulers in Chinese history. His reign was marked by thriftiness and attempts to reduce burdens on the people, with one of the lowest tax rate in Chinese history was recorded. Two years after his death, the tax rate was as low as 3.3% of one's personal income.
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Minutemen were an American punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California, in 1980. Composed of guitarist/vocalist D. Boon, bassist/vocalist Mike Watt, and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in 1985; after Boon's death, the band broke up. They were noted in the California punk community for a philosophy of "jamming econo"—a sense of thriftiness reflected in their touring and presentation—while their eclectic and experimental attitude was instrumental in pioneering alternative rock and post-hardcore.
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As he puts it, Song's relationships with his parents have also been a recurring theme of his work. Touching My Father, created in 1997, tackled his distant relationship with his father (who died in 2002). It consists of a video in which Song's own hand, superimposed over a film of his father, appears to stroke him. More recently, he created the installation Waste Not displaying over 10,000 household items from the home of his late mother, whose extreme thriftiness led her to obsessively hoard anything that could possibly be re-used.
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Some, such as Paul Volcker, suggest that the stereotype has decreased in prevalence in the United States. A telephone poll of 1,747 American adults conducted by the Anti-Defamation League in 2009 found that 18% believed that "Jews have too much power in the business world", 13% that "Jews are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want", and 12% that "Jews are not just as honest as other businesspeople". Jewish frugality, thriftiness, and greed are among the typical themes in jokes about Jews, even by Jews themselves.
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Mary and Mark Hopkins had no children of their own. Mary adopted Timothy Nolan, the adult son of her housekeeper, who took the Hopkins name and was given an administrative position at the Union Pacific Railroad. Despite Hopkins' thriftiness, his wife managed eventually to persuade him to build an ornate mansionHopkins, Mark, Jr., and Mary Sherwood, House, Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA (1878) demolished - Pacific Coast Architecture Database at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, close to the mansions of other Central Pacific founders. The construction commenced in 1875.
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While teaching thriftiness and how to save to build wealth, it became the model for banks in the African-American community. It sought to improve the morals of its members by regulating marriages, condemning drunkenness and adultery. Working with the city, it acquired land at Potter's Field for a burying ground; it began to perform and record marriages and also to record births for the people of its community. To encourage responsibility and create a common aid fund, the FAS asked members to pay dues of one shilling per month.
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Saud and Faisal fought an internal battle over the definition of political responsibilities and the division of government functions. Saud was often associated among other things with the plundering of oil revenues, luxurious palaces, and conspiracy inside and outside of Saudi Arabia while Faisal was associated with sobriety, piety, puritanism, thriftiness, and modernization. The battle between the two brothers was fought over the role to be assigned to the Council of Ministers. Saud abolished the office of Prime Minister by royal decree, thus enforcing his position as King and de facto prime minister.
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One of the most obvious indications of WKKM's thriftiness was the fact that during its 27 years on the air, it never broadcast in stereo. According to Carmine, most of the records were in mono as it was, so why bother spending thousands of dollars to convert the station to stereo? Also, Carmine nicknamed the station "The Best Radio Station Radio Shack Ever Built", since it is rumored that parts and hardware for the station came from the electronics retailer. WKKM was also a fertile training ground for up-and-coming radio talent.
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WTTF, known for its thriftiness over the years, also became recognized for its engineering ingenuity. When the FCC mandated Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) monitoring by all licensed radio stations, requiring the purchase of special reception equipment, Dick Wright built WTTF's EBS receiver himself. The unit, called the DW-76 (meaning Dick Wright and its 1976 manufacture date), was field tested and granted FCC type approval for legal use only at WTTF. Former WTTF-AM-FM afternoon announcer Ken Hawk in 1994, taken in the main on-air studio at former 185 South Washington Street studio location.
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6 (1910), 240. A number of cost-saving measures for the royal household were proposed by Gowrie and his exchequer colleagues. These were described as "havand respect to the order of the hous of your hieness goudsire King James the fifth of worthie memorie and to the of your majesties present rents," a reference to the thriftiness of James V.National Archives of Scotland: E34/36 Scheme for ordering the household November 1582: See Amy Juhala, , University of Edinburgh PhD (2000), 39-47, Edinburgh Research Archive. Queen Elizabeth was pleased with events and sent £1000 in September 1582 with Robert Bowes, a payment declared as the wages of the King's Guard.
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Either early in her husband's reign as emperor, or while he was still the Prince of Dai, Empress Dou became a strict adherent to Taoist philosophy, as encapsulated in the writing of Lao Zi and the legendary writings attributed to the Yellow Emperor—the idea of favouring inaction over action, of non-interference with others and nature, and of thriftiness in living. She ordered that her children (including Prince Qi), grandchildren, and the members of the Dou clan all study these writings. Obviously, she could not order her husband Emperor Wen to do so, but Emperor Wen was nevertheless heavily influenced by the Taoist ideas during his reign.
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Henry fled, first to Bavaria, then back to his Carinthian homelands. To further legitimate the Habsburg claims to the Bohemian and the Polish throne, Albert had Rudolph married to Elizabeth Richeza of Poland, widow of King Wenceslaus II. Mocked as král kaše ("king porridge") for his thriftiness rather than stomach problems, Rudolf was rejected by several Bohemian nobles, who continued to hold out for Henry. His aims to take hold of the silver deposits at Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg) sparked a rebellion led by the noble House of Strakonice. The king besieged the rebel fortress of Horažďovice, but died at the campsite in the night of 3 to 4 July 1307, probably of gastrointestinal perforation.
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Because of Studebaker's poor financial shape, the underpinnings of the car remained very similar to previous Hawks. For that matter, there wasn't much difference, chassis-wise, between a 1962 Hawk and a 1953 Starliner/Starlight. This thriftiness has turned out to be a boon for owners of today, as Studebaker's limited use of custom-engineered parts has translated into wide availability of replacement parts 50+ years after the firm's demise. For 1962, a Hawk buyer could choose from either two- or four- barrel carbureted versions of Studebaker's 289-cubic-inch (4.7 L) V8 engine (210 or 225 horsepower) teamed with standard three-speed manual, overdrive four-speed or Flight-O-Matic automatic transmission.
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This Kingston, Tennessee based company adopted the Scottish theme of thriftiness much like the Imperial 400 chain of its time. The one big difference though was the fact that Scottish Inns were built from modules constructed in plants in either Tennessee or Florida, and shipped to the motel sites. This concept was possibly considered the lowest price for a constructed motel room at $6,000 each (installed), and in 1972 they could be produced at a rate of about one room per hour. Although the company owned the motels when finished they did not operate them but leased the motels to independent operators, Scottish Inns also became a franchise operation; however, in 1973 Scottish Inns of America, Inc.
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Azerrad, 2001. p. 67 After their previous band, The Reactionaries, disbanded in 1979, the pair continued to write new material and formed the band with drummer Frank Tonche a year later. Minutemen signed to the Californian independent record label SST Records following their second gig.Azerrad, 2001. p. 68 George Hurley, the former drummer of The Reactionaries, replaced Tonche as drummer soon afterwards. The Minutemen were noted in the California punk scene for a philosophy of "jamming econo"; a sense of thriftiness reflected in their touring and presentation. They soon released numerous recordings through SST and their own label, New Alliance Records, while touring with hardcore punk bands like Black Flag and Hüsker Dü.Fournier, 2007. p.
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One common criticism is that the Big Five does not explain all of human personality. Some psychologists have dissented from the model precisely because they feel it neglects other domains of personality, such as religiosity, manipulativeness/machiavellianism, honesty, sexiness/seductiveness, thriftiness, conservativeness, masculinity/femininity, snobbishness/egotism, sense of humour, and risk-taking/thrill-seeking. Dan P. McAdams has called the Big Five a "psychology of the stranger", because they refer to traits that are relatively easy to observe in a stranger; other aspects of personality that are more privately held or more context-dependent are excluded from the Big Five. In many studies, the five factors are not fully orthogonal to one another; that is, the five factors are not independent.
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The United States grades feeder cattle that have not reached an age of 36 months on three factors: frame size, thickness, and thriftiness. Frame size evaluates feeder cattle' height and body length as determined by their skeletal size in relation with their age; frame size affects the animals' mature size and weight gain composition as they are fed into fed cattle. A large framed feeder cattle of a given age, breed, and a given degree of thickness will gain more muscle and bone, and less fat, than a smaller framed animal with the same age, breed, and thickness at a given maturity age. In terms of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grades for cattle carcasses, at a given weight and thickness, large framed cattle (fed from large framed feeder cattle) will have carcasses with higher yield grades, but lower quality grades.
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A seventeenth century satirical pamphlet cookbook, The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, Commonly Called Joan Cromwell, the Wife of the Late Usurper, portrayed her insultingly as a parsimonious housekeeper "a hundred times fitter for a barn than a palace". A miniature of Elizabeth was painted by Samuel Cooper, who described her as "neither uncomely or undignified in person.". Other writers portrayed her as unattractive, including Abraham Cowley who in his play The Cutter of Colman Street (1661) put the following passage into the mouth of Cutter: "He [Worm] would have been my lady Protectress's poet: he writ once a copy in praise of her beauty; but her Highness gave for it but an old half-crown piece in gold, which she had hoarded up before these troubles, and that discouraged him from any further applications to court." Cowley's reference to the hoarding of the half-crown piece also alluded to her supposed thriftiness.
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A Collyer's Mansion (also Collyer Mansion or just Collyer) is a modern firefighting term for a dwelling of hoarders that is so filled with trash and debris it becomes a serious danger to the occupants and emergency responders. The Collyer brothers' story was first directly fictionalized by Marcia Davenport in her novel My Brother's Keeper (Scribners, 1954), reprinted as a Popular Library paperback. In the 1955–1956 "Classic 39" season of The Honeymooners ("The Worry Wart"), affable neighbor Ed Norton, chiding Ralph Kramden for his thriftiness, quips "Congratulations on that 93 cent gas bill, Ralph ... You broke the all-time low gas bill record, set by the Collyer Brothers in 1931!" A 1973 episode of the television show The Streets of San Francisco titled "The House on Hyde Street" was inspired by the Collyers. The 1995 movie Unstrung Heroes features two uncles whose lifestyle and apartment are a direct homage to the Collyer brothers.
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The Rule of Wen and Jing (, 180 BC – 141 BC) refers to the reigns of Emperor Wen of Han and his son Emperor Jing of Han, a period known for the benevolence and thriftiness of the emperors, reduction in tax and other burdens on the people, pacifism, and general stability. The Rule of Wen and Jing was marked by Taoist influences in political theory, due to the influence of Emperor Wen's wife and Emperor Jing's mother, Empress Dou. Taoist influence on government did not truly end until her death in 135 BC, during the reign of her grandson Emperor Wu of Han. The Rule of Wen and Jing is often viewed as one of the golden ages in Chinese history, in particularly the Western Han dynasty, and it paved the way for the long and stable reign of Emperor Wu. It also enabled Emperor Wu to maintain a powerful army and employ an aggressive foreign policy, which greatly expanded the empire and ultimately pushed the Han dynasty to its zenith.
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Since this is a book for children, historical events are mainly just touched on rather than described in detail, so as not to slow down the plot. Similarly, there are starting points for many discussions about the Chinese culture of the time, including the use of "Young" and "Old" in names and how names are formed, the nature and role of Written Chinese, the social status of the scholar, Buddhism and the veneration of Guanyin, many common Chinese words and phrases (sometimes presented in English translation), the often-Four-character Chinese proverbs, traditional social roles of men and women, New Year and Spring Festival, the prejudice of city folk towards country folk, traditional clothing (including silk), the queue (hairstyle) and foot binding, the social status of soldiers, the role of artisan guilds and other guilds, sedan chairs, weddings and the role of women, story tellers, the role of shame (vs. guilt), the abacus, veneration of ancestors, the traditional humility in interpersonal relationships, the tea house, the coolie, the construction of houses and tenements, traditional medicine, the use of chopsticks and rice in meals, gambling games, bargaining, thriftiness, the kitchen god, the use of animals to name points in time, etc.
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