"Ergen throws around nickels like manhole covers, " says Clelend, referring to the executive's legendary parsimony.

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But at home, Japan's consumers are getting progressively less thanks for their parsimony.

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Worse yet, by their petty parsimony, they risk squandering a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do very well strategically by doing good.

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The root cause of the present carnage is cost inflation that makes Hollywood or premiership football clubs look like models of parsimony.

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Mr Chambers's parsimony is commendable, but Cisco's shareholders might be better served if he stayed at home and ran the company instead.

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Such parsimony is often not popular in the journalism fraternity.

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This parsimony is a mistake.

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In this case, as thanks for the bailouts, banks will be forced to give their irresponsible borrowers a somewhat free pass on loans dishonestly secured, while the savers and investors whose parsimony lies at the core of all economic growth will be shunted aside.

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