So far, at least, Packard has been able to convert them to his gospel of self-reliance and penny-pinching.
So what can businesses do to help aid drivers during these dangerously pocketbook pinching times?
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Once I was done pinching, pulling and zooming, I simply sat the phone back down.
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And you can go to his website where he documents his penny-pinching gardening tips at cheapvegetablegardener.com.
With folks pinching pennies due to the economy, raising taxes is considered political suicide.
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"We are like little ants pinching the food of the giant but we pinch, " he says.
Penny-pinching has not improved returns as revenues faltered, and investors have watched value languish.
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Nevertheless, businesses are hustling to adapt to a world where consumers, and businesses, are pinching pennies.
Interacting with the books is a generally intuitive combination of tapping, swiping and pinching.
The only response is to raise volumes, either by pinching market share or buying it.
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Through effective penny-pinching, she is swiftly attaining what for many is the great Japanese dream.
The result is an absurd combination of creative accounting, pointless penny-pinching and helpless inaction.
Fans of the penny-pinching Vanguard Group will be surprised at the answer: Fidelity beats Vanguard.
Of course, the screens will get dirtier from all the attempts at pinching and swiping!
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They can also be reformatted to fit your mobile's screen so they're easier to read without pinching-to-zoom.
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Wiseman, the University of Toronto professor, said suburban homeowners relate to Ford's blunt style and penchant for penny-pinching.
But with recession-wary companies still pinching pennies and hesitant to open their wallets, your salary may be non-negotiable.
When tackling tasks that require more precision than simply tapping and pinching, an appropriate stylus can be transformative.
This is expensive and painful, but cautious, penny-pinching governments end up paying more than those that tread boldly.
So far, the biggest customers of Linux clustering have been penny-pinching academic institutions with the programming talent to make it work.
Swipe a finger to turn the page, or zoom in and out by pinching your fingers together or apart.
In the early days, the inexpensive-but-contemporary look was useful for attracting penny-pinching customers.
There is also a suspicion that Mr Hoon's plans will reflect penny-pinching as much as strategy, Atlanticist or otherwise.
He wanders onto the streets and almost immediately into trouble, made worse by a lifetime of inexperience and penny-pinching.
The SRU's chief executive insisted that his organisation should not be accused of penny-pinching when considering who to appoint.
Yet without this, Europe will be reduced to pinching from each other or pushing its "surplus" populations to migrate.
Gone, it seems, are the days when penny-pinching consumers preferred to stash their hard-earned earnings whatever the exhortations to spend.
He did this literally by looking in the mirror while pinching himself in the places demons pinched him at night.
Swiping a card, pinching a map, or tapping a photo are all based on actions we know from the physical world.
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At daybreak, an hour from now, his penultimate portrait would be examined by the hired girl pinching out the wasteful candles.
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