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Penny-pinching bibliophiles will revel in a new batch of Web sites for paperback swapping.
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Penny-pinching consumers have helped food retailers increase their sales of store-branded products, whose sales increased 10% in the past year to more than $81 billion, according to the data firm Nielsen Co.
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Penny-pinching publishers who've dispensed with editorial departments?
Richard Wheeler; Gardner Fox Ed Gorman 2007
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Penny-pinching like this is nothing new: in the 1980s American Airlines boasted that it could save $40,000 each year by giving customers one olive, instead of two, in their salads.
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Penny-pinching entrepreneurs, listen up: "Voice Over Internet Protocol" technology can slash your monthly phone bills.
The VOIP Gang Mark Sullivan 2006
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Penny-pinching Getty Sr. refused to pay, famously stating: "I have 14 other grandchildren, and if I pay one penny now I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren."
unknown title 2011
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Penny-pinching runs so deep at the firm that its controlling shareholders, Vanessa and Johnathan Morgan, tapped personal savings to acquire the building when it was put up for sale while Lord Black unsuccessfully fought fraud charges in the United States and Hollinger tumbled into bankruptcy proceedings.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JACQUIE McNISH 2011
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Cancer June 22-July 22: Today is an 8 -- Penny-pinching skills come in handy.
The Seattle Times 2011
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'Penny-pinching' Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee sued by former assistant A PERSONAL assistant who spent six years working for Tommy Lee is suing the Motley Crue drummer for defamation plus "lost profits and business opportunities," according to court documents cited today by Radar Online.
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Penny-pinching Getty Sr. refused to pay, famously stating: "I have 14 other grandchildren, and if I pay one penny now I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren."
Forbes.com: News Christopher Helman 2011
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