This appears to be one of the most tightfisted billionaires since Scrooge McDuck.
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They helped make Apu, the show's tightfisted convenience store owner, a household name.
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Manafort wrote to Trump offering to work free, and Trump, famously tightfisted, accepted.
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Or, conversely, they might be more tightfisted, so as not to appear biased.
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The party was critical of the government's tightfisted policies and may prove more flexible.
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To get that partial reimbursement, many farmers had to deal with tightfisted local officials.
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We begin in the singularly unhappy home ruled by Andrew Borden, a dour, tightfisted patriarch.
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But beneath the calm is a town under tightfisted control, enforced by militias accountable only to their paymasters.
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There's also a very significant difference between someone who is wealthy but tightfisted and someone who has to be thrifty.
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There may be tightfisted holdouts, though not the N.C.A.A., which bailed on its winter and spring championships on Thursday afternoon.
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He abandoned his tightfisted inclinations and cut five- and six-figure checks in a bid for clout as a political donor.
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While many individuals who have attained massive business success remain frugal, they are not tightfisted when it comes to sharing their wealth.
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For some he is the perennial bad boy, alternately overpaid and profligate or meanspirited and tightfisted, depending on the story du jour.
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Jobs, for the most part, was tightfisted when it came to charity, and it's unlikely that he would have supported Cook's charitable efforts.
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It's total control, all of us held hostage to his cruel sense of humor and his tightfisted attention that centers on only himself.
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Why Trump struggles to find top legal talent: He has a reputation within the legal community for being tightfisted and reluctant to pay bills.
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And regardless of biology or circumstance, many of us, maybe most of us, simply need more than the one dad allotted by a tightfisted nature.
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The couple had given her a new name, which Jiayu now remembered—memory could be tightfisted with the past and then, without warning, open the floodgate.
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That could complicate China's efforts to turn its traditionally tightfisted population into American-style spenders, to offset its economy's dependence on exports and big-ticket government projects.
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TIGHTFISTED SHOPPERS The Commerce Department said retail sales slipped in February, as consumers spent less and remained cautious about the state of the economy despite steady hiring.
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His tightfisted control of the District of Columbia's laws, which fall under his committee's purview, has been rewarded with a Washington-born, anti-Chaffetz political action committee.
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Congress bears much of the blame because of its tightfisted federal budgets when more government spending is needed to offset feeble spending and investment in the private sector.
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KARACHI, Pakistan — For decades, the sight of Abdul Sattar Edhi pleading for donations was enough to press even the most tightfisted of Pakistanis into reaching for their wallets.
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Of course, these same lawmakers who are so tightfisted with children's medical care want to slash taxes on wealthy families with no effort to offset that loss of revenue.
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From the shadows emerges the partners' lawyer, Howard Reinheimer, whose tightfisted and farsighted schemes net "the boys" exceptional wealth and an unprecedented amount of control over their own work.
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Countless people celebrated in Harare and across the country at the time, in a short-lived euphoria that faded with the ever worsening economy and disappointment over Mr. Mnangagwa's tightfisted rule.
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This big-budget adventure picture was an anomaly for Columbia, usually a tightfisted studio; the director was Frank Capra, who had proved his mettle with effects-heavy action fare in "Submarine" (1928).
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Although Stan was pretty liberal with giving out creative freedom he was more tightfisted when it came to sharing the spotlight, money, copyrights or the sales from the original art of his collaborators.
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Cordial at first blush, she contrives to be both high-handed and tightfisted—concerned about having too many guests, because that would mean extra labor for her housemaids, who might in turn demand higher wages.
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He said that Ms. Mayer was the best boss he had ever had, but acknowledged some truth in the common criticism that she was tightfisted with praise and sometimes displayed a harshness that could be demoralizing.
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Civil society groups do try hard to raise funds within the country, but Indian philanthropists remain tightfisted when it comes to issues like land or labor rights, health care access, quality of education, or resource exploitation by corporations.
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WASHINGTON — Stock traders celebrating Donald J. Trump's election have been bidding up equity prices on a risky bet: that the new president will steer congressional Republicans in a U-turn away from their tightfisted fiscal policies — and bring Democrats along for the ride.
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Yet as new qualification requirements roll into effect for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as many as 1.43 million low-income shoppers are about become more tightfisted with their spending — something that is likely to take a nibble out of revenue at the world's largest retailer.
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Party line votes in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Budget Committee also advanced the nomination of Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina to be the White House budget director, despite deep concerns among Democrats — and some Republicans — over his tightfisted spending record.
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But over three days of conversation here, the dilemma has become clear: Whether it is the U.S.-China trade war, tightfisted spending in Germany, or the drawn-out Brexit, broader government policies are moving in the other direction - driving central bankers to mount further rescue efforts, and likely leading to even more negative yielding debt.
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There has also been a changing of the guard with executives like Michael Wirth of Chevron; Patrick Pouyanné of the French company Total and Ben van Beurden at Royal Dutch Shell, who worked in the less glamorous and more cost-conscious refining and petrochemicals units of companies, taking the reins and bringing a more tightfisted mentality to finding and developing new oil fields.
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Baldwin was financially tightfisted in his business dealings, but led a flamboyant lifestyle. Baldwin's matrimonial ventures periodically created sensations. He was married four times, the first two marriages ending in divorce. His third wife, Jennie Dexter, was a 16-year-old child at the time of marriage.
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The other players, aware of Ballinger's tightfisted, cautious nature, all reluctantly fold. Mary collects her sizable winnings and pays Ballinger back with interest. The game then breaks up, no one ever having seen the winning hand. The lady's determination earns her the admiration of the men.
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Xiaoma is a young woman who has recently moved to Beijing where she finds an apartment in an old courtyard apartment complex owned by Grandma, an elderly woman. Xiaoma and Grandma's relationship almost immediately becomes strained. After trying to tidy up the courtyard, Grandma insists that Xiaoma turn over her share of the profits. Tightfisted, the elderly landlady resists even allowing Xiaoma to install a telephone.
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Tightfisted Dan chides her for not cancelling Jerry but still pays his penny fee. He refuses however to discuss the reason for the train's lateness. Not without some difficulty – her husband is also not a well man – they descend the stairs and begin the trek home. On her journey to the station Maddy only had to compete with one person at a time, each an old man.
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Jeannie McLean is a young Scottish women who takes care of her tightfisted father, leaving her no time (and money) for herself. When he dies, she discovers he has left his "fortune" - 297 pounds - to her, nothing to her sisters. She decides to have some fun for a change, starting with a trip to Vienna. On the way to and in Vienna, a stranger, Stanley Smith, helps her through various difficulties resulting from her inexperience.
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Meanwhile, Benjamin's wife, who is divorcing him because of his stinginess, shows up and asks Marie to stop making a fool of him. Marie realizes that Mrs Thomas (Lucille Gleason) is still in love with her husband, and comes up with a plan to cure him of his tightfisted ways. The next day, Marie steers Benjamin to the jewelry store where Mrs Thomas is waiting. Mrs Thomas, pretending not to see him, complains (in a loud voice) how cheap her husband is.
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Helen enjoys a friendship with the three tenants who live above her, to whom she affectionately refers as "the kids". Helen, unlike her husband, knows that Jack is not gay, but out of fondness for the trio, plays along with the charade. Contrary to her tightfisted and very suspicious husband, Helen does not mind that Jack lives with Janet and Chrissy, and is very understanding of their situation. She frequently tries to defuse tense situations between her husband and the trio.
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While he still hunts for treasure in DuckTales, many episodes focus on his attempts to thwart villains. However, he remains just as tightfisted with money as he has always been. But he's also affable and patient with his family and friends. Scrooge displays a strict code of honor, insisting that the only valid way to acquire wealth is to "earn it square," and he goes to great lengths to thwart those (sometimes even his own nephews) who gain money dishonestly.
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Despite his love of the game, Navin developed a reputation as a penny-pincher, which was not surprising given he was trained as an accountant. A 1904 letter he wrote to Hall of Famer Sam Crawford adds to the reputation. After hitting .338 for the Tigers in 1903, Crawford took his used uniform home to Wahoo, Nebraska, prompting Navin to send the following letter: Navin's tightfisted nature came in part because unlike most of the other owners, he had no income apart from the Tigers.
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During this period, Halleck was widely read and was part of New York literary society. As one of the younger members of the Knickerbocker Group, he published with them and met associated visiting writers, such as Charles Dickens. His satires were thought to challenge the era's "sacred institutions" and Halleck was known for his wit and charm. At Astor's death, the immensely wealthy—and tightfisted—man left Halleck an annuity in his will: of only $200 annually. His son William increased the amount to $1,500.
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Richard Ma is a tightfisted, mean and unpleasant character. He is also a wealthy businessman who has become increasingly bitter and mistrustful due to what he believes are the gold digging women in his life. Following a series of events one weekend, Richard's financial assets are temporarily frozen, his house is looted by his bitter ex-girlfriend and he has no cash leaving him helpless and broke. It is during this fateful weekend that he meets Choi; a struggling stockbroker who is trying ward off the attentions of an unwanted suitor from her local village.
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Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon went on to gross an estimated and worldwide, respectively. The English-language Enter the Dragon, the first-ever US-Hong Kong co-production, grossed an estimated worldwide, making it the most internationally successful film from the region. Furthermore, his decision at the outset to work for young, upstart studio Golden Harvest, rather than accept the Shaws' notoriously tightfisted standard contract, was a factor in Golden Harvest's meteoric rise and Shaw's eventual decline. Following Lee's untimely death, a cottage industry of faux Lee movies emerged, featuring either performers who adopted similar screen names (Bruce Li, Bruce Lai, etc.), or outtake footage of Lee, or some combination of both.
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Statue of the movie star Bruce Lee on the Avenue of Stars of Hong Kong In 1970, former Shaw Brothers executives Raymond Chow and Leonard Ho left to form their own studio, Golden Harvest. The upstart's more flexible and less tightfisted approach to the business outmaneuvered the Shaws' old-style studio. Chow and Ho landed contracts with rising young performers who had fresh ideas for the industry, like Bruce Lee and the Hui Brothers, and allowed them greater creative latitude than was traditional. California-born, Bruce Lee only found minor roles in U.S. films and television at first as foreign actors are often criticized and not widely accepted by the audience during the 1970s in North America.
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The idea had its roots in an 1858 book by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, but did not gain currency in anti-semitic tracts until around 1900. In 1912, author Teodor Jeske-Choiński had Jews in his book rhetorically say: "If you do not allow us to establish a 'Judeo-Polonia state' and a nation of 'Judeo-Polish people,' we will strangle you." This myth has been revived every so often in connection with the Bodenheimer plan (League of East European States), most notably by Andrzej Leszek Szcześniak in his books Judeopolonia (2001) and Judeopolonia II (2002), which present Jews as "informers and spies for the tsar, tightfisted hyenas and arrogant sassy people who oppress the Polish people." .
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Szcześniak is known for reviving the conspiracy theory of Judeopolonia, authoring two volumes under this title, which present Jews as "informers and spies for the tsar, tightfisted hyenas and arrogant sassy people who oppress the Polish people." . Polish journalist Anna Bikont writes that during the Communist times he had a near-monopoly on the history textbooks, but with the fall of Communism he switched the rhetoric in the textbooks from Communist to nationalist. She writes that she raised the issue of anti-Semitism in his textbooks in her articles Gazeta Wyborcza, which caused public protests by over 200 prominent people against using these textbooks in education, but an equally large group defended his textbooks for the "Polish values" in them.
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