Checking health plan eligibility is a good way to pinch pennies, since the stakes are large.

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In the West, the elderly pinch pennies, but Japan's seniors pay extra.

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But not everyone going into retirement has to pinch pennies and not every well-off retiree cares about reducing taxes for themselves or their heirs.

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This is a complete 180-degree change from the situation at the beginning of 2008, when record-high oil prices put a big smile on the faces of oil producers while forcing oil consumers to pinch pennies.

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Valentine loves his CEOs to pinch pennies.

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Its owners are either so green, or so keen to pinch their petrol pennies, that they were willing to buy an ugly car to prove it.

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