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For starters, the spending plans by the candidates make Trump and even Barack Obama look like skinflints.
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Until that time, for the skinflints amongst us, Gulliver has suggestion: always take a young child with you when travelling.
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During the roughly two decades that Marcos was the first lady of the Philippines, she became famous for lavish habits that make the Kardashians seem like skinflints.
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Not all these respondents were simply mean old skinflints; many believe that aid to the poor should never be "legislated" or "socialised" because voluntary efforts are always better.
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Remember how all those Jeb Bush ads became almost a punch line — leading some to actually calculate how much he spent per primary vote compared to skinflints like Cruz and Trump?
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Amazon, for example, can use its trove to figure out the best way to price goods – attracting skinflints with cheap prices and charging more to those who can't be bothered to comparison shop.
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In the early setting, Gautrekr is the contemporary of legendary characters such as Starkad and the Swedish kings Erik and Alrik. Gautreks saga tells that Gautrekr was born out of the meeting between Gauti, the king of Västergötland, and Snotra who was the most intelligent of a family of backwoods skinflints. Her family committed suicide for having lost too much food supporting Gauti as their guest. Snotra took the child Gautrek to Gauti's court and King Gauti, years later on his deathbed, made Gautrek his heir.
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New and upcoming bands such as The Ray Summers, The Skinflints, Young Fathers as well as The Sears and Braebach showcased their music during the weekend. The Sunday night ended with a spectacular pyrotechnic show to celebrate 2009 as the Homecoming Year and to also dedicate the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns' 250th birthday with a special commendation to Tam O' Shanter – one of Burns' best-known poems – and a piper brigade circling the courtyard of Callendar House. The Festival closed with a picture lit by fire to reveal a love heart around the portrait of Burns as fireworks painted the saltire in the sky. Big in Falkirk was canceled in 2010.
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After two more well-received Colby books in 1949 and 1950, Dodge abandoned series characters and focused on stand-alone suspense adventures set in exotic locales around the world; To Catch a Thief was Dodge's greatest career success, primarily due to the fact the Alfred Hitchcock purchased film rights before the novel was even published in 1952 and turned it into the 1955 Paramount film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. For the remainder of his career, Dodge alternated between mystery and travel writing, continuing the saga of the Dodge family as they bumble and bargain their way around the world. The Poor Man’s Guide to Europe, a "tipsheet for nickel-nursers and skinflints" appeared in 1953 and was so successful that Random House issued annual revised editions from 1954 to 1959. It was also a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
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