What do a miserly duck, a 370-year-old vampire, and a Jazz-age racketeer have in common?
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Even before the recession GDP was barely crawling along, with growth averaging a miserly 0.7% a year over the past decade (see chart).
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Rangers had been accused of playing "anti-football" during a miserly run to the final built on a solid defensive foundation.
Even at the peak of their recent run-up, ten-year Japanese-government bonds only yielded a miserly 1.43%, but in a deflationary environment they were still attractive to Japanese investors in real terms.
It's a pretty miserly offering and we soon filled it up with a handful of Spotify playlists, apps and camera shots.
He was a miser, not an entrepreneur, because his economic philosophy was a miserly one, not an entrepreneurial one.
Defence, transport and the Home Office would get nothing extra for two years, followed by a miserly two per cent growth thereafter.
Assuming this figure accounts for all 1997 sequencing sales, this suggests that that the compound annual growth for sequencing has been a miserly 3.5%.
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He forged a 61-run partnership with Matt Windows at a crucial period when Ian Austin had all but bottled up Gloucestershire's scoring options, finishing with a miserly 10-2-17-0.
So whereas Tony Blair comfortably survived early left-wing revolts, over a miserly increase to the basic state pension and cuts to single parents' benefit, the 10p guerrillas rapidly extracted their concessions.
They were transformed to the more secure and positive thinking side back on their Lancashire territory, but had initially found the defensive 4-5-1 formation of a miserly Birmingham difficult to play through.
The visitors motored to 231-9, with Chris Miller (67), Godfrey Stevens (45) and Steve Taylor (40) in the runs, even though Amjaad Alikhan picked up a five-wicket haul for a miserly 35 runs.
In those writings, Stump, who died in 1995, depicted Cobb as a miserly alcoholic who bull-whipped his children, removed the stamps from his fan letters to reuse them, and was so despised by his peers that just three baseball people attended his funeral.
Ligue 1 leaders Bordeaux came into the tie as slight favourites, having topped a Champions League group ahead of Bayern Munich and Juventus and won seven successive games in the competition, but the bedrock of that success was a miserly defence which conceded just three goals in eight games.
On the bottom rung is a 7-incher with miserly specs: 1.2GHz Cortex-A8 CPU, 800 x 480 res, 512MB RAM, 4GB storage and ICS to sticky-up your fingers.
According to him, other countries' miserly consumers and institutions, faced with a dearth of good investment opportunities at home, are pouring their savings into American credit markets, providing ultra-cheap funds for the government, and American consumers, to borrow.
On the software front, Nokia has armed it with several signature items, including Nokia Music, Drive, and Maps, but alongside this older Windows Phone build, we're a bit disappointed by the lack of a front camera and the miserly 2.2GB of non-expandable storage.
With fuel prices going to the moon and the airlines cutting flights to smaller cities, a new generation of technically advanced, fuel-miserly airplanes offers hope.
On a regional basis, though, Spain makes Germany look miserly.
But aid workers in Laos query how long such a policy can be sustained, given that alternative crops often provide miserly returns from uncertain markets, not least because of Laos's appalling infrastructure.
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