Or go into a room full of tightfisted media magnates?

This is no time for tightfisted, adversarial strategies by the city.

His tightfisted father kept him on an allowance at first, but expected Crane to get a job.

It is the tightfisted neurosis of a more or less prosperous human being.

Apparently this would be a daily thing, giving up the logical, the personal, the tightfisted, closely held stuff.

"It's testimony to the tightfisted fiscal policies we have implemented."

The entrepreneurs now rushing into farming have themselves not set a pattern of tightfisted cost control.

Normally when it came to motor vehicles, my otherwise generous dad was pretty tightfisted.

Still, there were signs that Americans had not entirely surrendered their tightfisted attitude toward spending money on foreign aid.

Many companies also cut travel spending during the recession and imposed tightfisted policies that they vow are not going to change.

The Burani are very tightfisted with their personal information."

Augustana is open to new ideas, the managers said, but now it is more tightfisted.

But we're not the only tightfisted ones.

The other players, aware of Ballinger's tightfisted, cautious nature, all reluctantly fold.

Navin's tightfisted nature came in part because unlike most of the other owners, he had no income apart from the Tigers.

And the apparel industry has changed greatly in recent years, with tightfisted consumers refusing to buy until retailers put up the sale signs.

She crunched the shirt in a tightfisted grip.

Tightfisted Policies But the symbolism seemed as important as the actual size of the cuts.

A tightfisted and vengeful Dutch burgher has "the fragile skin of an early apple."

Three days earlier, the Bulls managed to squeeze just 68 points out of the tightfisted Knicks.

I commented on this to Aahz as further proof of the tightfisted nature of the kingdom.

Railroad officials are a tightfisted lot.

Ms. Rasco said a tightfisted Legislature prevented the changes from coming sooner.

"We run a very tightfisted company."

"By conservative," I mean I'm a little more tightfisted than the Senator."