Americans are the fattest, the stingiest of the bunch.
Belt-tightening at the Quai d'Orsay has meant the elimination of jobs, cultural programs and allowances, as well as restrictions on foreign travel and the stingiest of bonuses.
Nevertheless, it provides owners with yet another point of leverage over even the stingiest of politicians, for letting a team leave is unpopular indeed.
SAN FRANCISCO — ABC, the stingiest of the major television networks when it comes to syndicating its programs across the Web, is loosening up a little.
Not only is the United States the stingiest of all rich-country aid donors (spending only 0.1% of its national income on foreign aid, compared with the European average of 0.3%), its aid is particularly inefficient.
Djokovic has beaten Federer and Nadal — the two players who have defined this era — eight times in nine matches this year, and he has been stingiest of all with Nadal: beating him five consecutive times, including twice on American hardcourts, twice on his beloved red clay and now on grass.
If they can find a way to score against the stingiest of defenses after being shut down by the merely competent Raiders and Lions the last two weeks, the Jets will play on past Christmas and Groh will be hailed for not ruining Parcells's fine scheme.
Boehner is also pressing for an increase in the Medicare eligibility age and a stingier cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security recipients.
The Bowles-Simpson commission's final report in December of that year proposed major cuts to Social Security, including an increase in the retirement age, a lower benefit formula for above-median earners and a stingier cost-of-living adjustment.
Billed as zucchini "shells" stuffed with dried fruit and cheese in a tomato gravy, it amounted to a stingy serving of two stumps of squash, partly filled with an indeterminate mush, submerged in a bowl of sauce.
