In addition to the failure to police the treaty effectively, it has taken a miserly approach to funding clearance.
As schools are forced to compete for miserly bits of funding, departments plot among and against themselves, entrenching inequalities.
If the new 30-hour allowance is funded at the same miserly rate, the shortage of places could be exacerbated.That could harm social mobility, at which Britain already does badly.
Unions say one per cent is miserly - but also question whether there is money available in the budget to fund even that, without cutting services.
Beggars Banquet funded Kent's new label, Situation 2, but Kent became frustrated by Martin Mills' "miserly" ways and moved on again, managing rising Scots duo the Associates before the onset of MS. "My doctor said I needed to leave the record business.
Banks, blamed for lending too generously to LTCM and its fellow hedge funds before, are now being more miserly.
Bank money funds, for instance, stood at a miserly 2.4% in early November.
Of course, the likes of Indonesia will look more to regional powers and the Asian Development Bank than to the IMF or World Bank for the funds they need if the West remains miserly while keeping control of the creation of international reserves.
Then there was the case of an aide to the mayor of Washington, D.C., who was required to resign in 1989 after he offended a black colleague by saying he would have "to be niggardly" in dispensing monies from a particular fund, although niggardly comes from a Scandinavian word meaning "miserly" and has nothing to do with the other one.
The yields on these funds can approach 4percentt — quite attractive when compared with the miserly returns that banks and government securities were offering.
While the average global bond fund listed in the table directly above has annual expenses of $1.17 per $100 in assets, the two no-load Standish Mellon funds are noteworthy for their low overhead; they are as miserly as the $0.59 per $100 in assets for Standish International Fixed Income.
