But the result was that Megson had to be thrifty in the market.

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In the lower price ranges, there's plenty of competition from the big name brands and lesser known manufacturers, since rebranding abounds we'd recommend making the stores return policy something to check along with the spec sheet when trying to be thrifty.

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Not everyone chooses to be so thrifty, such as the most famous medical student of this week, Phillip Markoff a.k.a.

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American genes may be especially thrifty.

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The enormous amounts of liquidity that led to the housing and commodities bubbles of recent years cannot be blamed on thrifty Chinese but on the excess money creation of Greenspan and Bernanke.

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For the small investor who is ready to buy individual shares of a particular company, a direct stock purchase plan may be the smartest and most thrifty way to do so.

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All this may work for a bit, but thrifty German consumers will not be kept away from bargain telephony for ever, and heavy-handedness stokes public hostility to the company.

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You could work, you could be conscious in - conscientious in what you do, thrifty in what you did with your money.

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It is no secret that global spending must be rebalanced: indebted American consumers must cut back, while thrifty countries should spend more and save less.

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The Republicans could equally be accused of playing a cynical game, voting against a package they know will pass in order to appear thrifty yet not risk being accused of sabotage.

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