The debate between Say and Malthus, between Scrooge and the Ghosts, continues to this day.
Today's CIO salutes his CFO, the house Scrooge who demands quick and accountable IT returns.
Scrooge or Santa camp, what is Joe Taxpayer supposed to do in the meantime?
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Ironically, this made Scrooge a much less wealthy man than he could have been.
Guess whose ideas Charles Dickens put into the mouth of his antagonist Ebenezer Scrooge.
Thus to the most Scrooge-like of all questions: Is there a constitutional issue here?
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If you didn't buy your loved one an iPad, you're just terrible, you Scrooge.
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Dickens offered the example of Fezziwig, under whom Scrooge apprenticed and apparently learned only selectively.
Ultimately Scrooge did what neither the Lord Mayor nor anyone else in the story could.
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Scrooge put his business world in one place and his social world in another.
It as if Scrooge and the Grinch stole Xmas before it even had time to roll around.
Ok, I hate to play Scrooge here, but someone needs to drag DeLong from his egg nog.
The Archangel Gabriel bears the same relationship to God as Bob Cratchit does to Scrooge, she argues.
This Carol's Scrooge character, played by Kevin Farley, is a dead-ringer for radical leftist filmmaker Michael Moore.
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Some members of Congress hinted that Gore was assuming the role of Scrooge.
On behalf of my misunderstood brethren and sisteren (I heard of a female scrooge once), let me clear up a few things.
Alas, Mr. Scrooge has been very influential in government circles this year.
Ebenezer Scrooge was a mortgage banker, and the arguments I am about to marshal for a hard landing in housing might sound un-Christmaslike.
Scrooge, the boy, because a victim of that, believed that want was an ontological necessity, rather than a tragic by-product of state planning.
Scrooge and Marley is basically a collection agency micro-business, whose proprietor did not even make the Forbes 15 List of Wealthiest Fictional Characters.
By contrast Scrooge, even as an old man, had no apprentices and only one employee, a low wage and low skilled one at that.
Local Forest Service officers, though they see the case for higher fees, find themselves reluctant to play Scrooge to families they have known for years.
Then the ghost raises his torch (in the shape of a cornucopia) and leads Scrooge to the public market, brimming with food from all around the world.
Yet the President could nevertheless pretend not to appreciate this generous gift and instead castigate Republicans for being as cheap as Scrooge and as mean as the Grinch.
If Mr Brown is now able to shower money on the public services, it is in large measure because he has played Scrooge for the past three years.
Bob Cratchit even wants to drink Scrooge's health, which Mrs.
The steam of the Christmas pudding drifts across a background of pawnshops and sweated labour, and in a double sense the ghost of Scrooge stands beside the dinner table.
It will include David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), as well as rarely seen silent adaptations like Scrooge - or Marley's Ghost (1901) and David Copperfield (1913).
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