Germany has moved on since then and in recent times has been seduced by slogans that substitute thrift and parsimony for Vorsprung and Technik.
Cameron was swept to the leadership on a pre-crash tide of optimism, and here, almost a decade later, was his closest lieutenant – the very incarnation of blue-rosetted parsimony – daring at last to speak of a big step on "the road from austerity to prosperity".
Most important, there could be tension between the goal of liberating local talent and the ideal of equity across the NHS, so dear to the public.The anger of doctors along with the consequences of Labour's relative parsimony during its first two years in office, and the early deployment of its big ideas have made health an awkward subject for the government.
Surely the number of targets is not what matters but whether they coalesce to form an effective, well-integrated agenda.HOMI KHARAS Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution Washington DC* Your article about the post 2015 development goals displays the conceptual parsimony that the late Albert O. Hirschman deplored.
Whether such parsimony has truly hindered innovation in geothermal engineering is hard to say, for in a sense it is two different industries.
Mr Nelson (pictured) is one of a new batch of home brewers for whom quality rather than parsimony is a guiding principle.
Standard and Poor's has rewarded Rio's parsimony with a credit rating which, unusually for a municipality, is a notch above that of Brazil itself.
After an initial bounceback early in the recovery, it has stabilised at a little over 12% of GDP, well below the 13.5% peak of the previous cycle, which was itself below the 14.5% peak of the 1990s cycle.The parsimony is puzzling: interest rates are at, or near, record lows, and profit margins near all-time highs.
That means, as argued before, a minority Labour government dependent on nationalist votes may not be able to keep the deficit down; the other parties will have no interest in voting for parsimony.
But critics attribute this to parsimony towards its predecessors' projects and towards opposition governors and mayors.
Its communiqué noted that streamlining conditionality shifts "the presumption of coverage from one of comprehensiveness to one of parsimony".
