KarstadtQuelle has also been cutting costs, becoming stingier with its suppliers and shedding 7, 000 jobs this year.
By contrast, stingier REITs are in better shape to weather bad times and even hike dividends, (see table).
In addition the measure of inflation used to calculate annual increases in many benefits would be made stingier.
Germany's better performance also relied on ever-stingier unemployment benefits, which increased labour supply and reduced upward wage pressure.
The flow of EU grants over the 2014-20 budget period will be stingier.
The Knicks got stingier on defense in the fourth quarter, and Lin was switched from guarding Calderon to Leandro Barbosa.
They also likely gift wrapped a kinder package to banks in emerging markets, particularly those close to stingier Western European banks.
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These will come mainly from making working-age benefits for poorer households stingier.
How much cash it includes will vary by industry, by location and company, but payments have grown stingier during the past decade, Outten says.
Cynics pointed out that Wal-Mart pays more for employee health cover than weaker or stingier rivals, so any such mandate would raise costs for its competition.
They propose sanctions for claimants who refuse jobs, compulsory community work for the long-term jobless and extra screening for incapacity-benefit claimants, with those deemed fit for work turfed onto the stingier jobseeker's allowance.
Colorado has closed its plan to new enrollees and is giving its 7, 800 current account holders until February to drop out and get back the amount they invested (with no appreciation in some cases) or remain on stingier terms: It will now cover tuition increases of up to only 5.5% a year.
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