tightfistedness

They are rather proud here of their reputation for tightfistedness.

Such tightfistedness on the part of lenders can dry up economic activity.

She was the paymaster in these parts and a legend for her tightfistedness.

The current tightfistedness among consumers is also evident among major manufacturers.

Long known for tightfistedness and caution, Goldwyn nevertheless began taking chances.

Another cause for concern was that retailers were practically giving away merchandise to lure consumers from their recent tightfistedness.

This tightfistedness set the table for the current boom, leading to low interest rates, job growth, the Wall Street explosion, etc.

Tightfistedness is also working to slow orders for industrial supplies, the classic antidote to recession blues.

Do Paramount's problems spring from Viacom's tightfistedness toward it?

According to the local folklore, the residents of this town are renowned for their self-effacing humor and their tightfistedness.

And a top-level agent who has made deals for clients at every studio echoed the complaint about Paramount's tightfistedness.

The other reason for DDT's demise was donor tightfistedness.

But, in an episode of embarrassing and unnecessary tightfistedness, it has frozen enrollment in a badly needed state health insurance program for low-income children.

And that, some say, is keeping nonprofits from achieving levels of efficiency they greatly need in an era of philanthropic tightfistedness.

Presumably her formidable and wealthy grandmother was far more generous to her granddaughter than to her son, who grumbled incessantly about his mother's tightfistedness.

As your article points out, this kind of "tightfistedness" is the chief reason why no staff members from "Murphy Brown" moved with them to "Love and War."

It was the day after Argentinians had first rioted in the streets, responding indirectly to the I.M.F.'s sudden tightfistedness.

He predicted that for the rest of the year, "there will be endless reports of the tightfistedness of the consumer and reports that will see inflation bobbing up and down."

For all the changes in Eastern Europe and the pleas for American aid to help it along, Americans retained a traditional tightfistedness when it came to direct United States assistance.

But it took a lunch with four other business travelers during a trade show last fall in Los Angeles for Hal Bringman, a public relations executive, to witness close up the new tightfistedness of his fellow executives.

Mr. Miles's biography harps so insistently on Kerouac's nasty rightism, along with his tightfistedness and other unpleasant personal traits, that one begins to wonder what anyone saw in Kerouac once his looks were gone.

Van Ellet, a senior analyst for the American Association of Retired Persons, said low Medicaid payments to nursing homes, more than the tightfistedness of nursing home operators, account for the aides' low pay.

The State and Defense Departments were unhappy with Treasury's tightfistedness, but Treasury officials suggested sarcastically if any other department had a spare billion or two in its budget and wanted to help the Thais, it should feel free to do so.

But many police officers, piqued for years over what many of them regard as the Giuliani administration's tightfistedness in wages and other benefits, were puzzled and hurt by the Commissioner's plan to give promotions and raises only to the Street Crime officers.