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• s  unwilling to part with money

• The blunt-speaking, tightfisted Brooklynite, who served in the House of Representatives from 1944 until his retirement last year, was famous for his sardonic attacks on State .
• And during these tightfisted times, companies like REI and Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) are reporting an uptick in the sale of family tents.
• Facing a bare till, a tightfisted Governor builds a surplus Ronald Reagan would have picked Lester Lanin and Dom Perignon.

• closefisted
• hardfisted

News & Articles

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• Randgold's Restless Prospector Plans To Survive The Gold Crunch
  Mark Bristow built one of the most profitable gold miners by finding huge deposits in the roughest parts of Africa. Will his tightfisted tenacity help Randgold survive the coming shakeout?
  June 5, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• John McCain in International Herald Tribune
  McCain said the GOP forgot "who we were: tightfisted stewards of the federal treasury who keep our priorities straight. We asked Americans to make us the governing party, and we rewarded them by becoming the party of government."
• Salman Rushdie in International Herald Tribune
  Rushdie told The Guardian newspaper that the book portrayed him as "mean, nasty, tightfisted, arrogant and extremely unpleasant."
• Steve Ogden in Houston Chronicle
  We were pretty tightfisted with the parks on the grounds that the state auditor has said there are some significant fiscal management issues there and we continue to wait on some assurance that they're going to get their fiscal house in order,...