They should be praised for scrutinising creditworthiness at long last, not pilloried for being tight-fisted.
Consumer spending seems unsustainably strong given weak income growth, shrunken wealth, and tight-fisted banks.
Donors, their generosity worn out by a year of spectacular calamities, were tight-fisted, and aid agencies overstretched.
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The usual answer is that German taxpayers are tight-fisted and that Mrs Merkel is afraid of them.
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Although not quite as tight-fisted as Estonia, Riga still avoided the European disease.
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Generali now has to take the same tight-fisted approach abroad as at home.
Already, the governor has begun to sound like one of those tight-fisted Republicans.
While things have loosened up a bit since the financial crisis began, financial institutions, such as banks, are still tight-fisted.
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At first blush, it seems odd that the bank would be so tight-fisted with such a large amount of money.
What Silverman has proved adept at is cutting costs, a skill that no doubt pleases the network's tight-fisted corporate parent General Electric.
Are they more or less tight-fisted than they were a month ago?
China, meanwhile, says that it needs not just money but also clean technology, and accuses rich-countries of being tight-fisted with their intellectual property.
The resulting sense of being short-changed corresponds to an ancient English stereotype about tight-fisted Scots, one of the few prejudices that is still broadly permissible.
But Japan's distressed banks still seem to be applying a mild brake on business spending: central-bank surveys suggest that most small businessmen find their bankers unusually tight-fisted.
Another prominent Republican governor, Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson, has issued more than 1, 500 vetoes, and displays a six-foot yellow pencil in his office, a token of thanks from tight-fisted Republican legislators.
Furthermore, companies may remain tight-fisted in their investment plans.
Whatever you think of his views on the tax issues involved, McCourt makes a highly persuasive case that tech company management teams are hurting the value of their shares by being so tight-fisted with their cash.
And there's a lot of economists who say, look, if you loosened up credit more for homeowners to allow them to refinance in the long term that would save taxpayers more money than if you were really tight-fisted about things.
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