“Another high-impact topic, cost control, also went negative as the media started to equate the company's tightfistedness less with low prices and more with offshoring.”

“By the end of Schiff's reign at the paper, however, the Post had come to reflect her worst qualities, especially her tightfistedness. ”

“Nonetheless, Chinese vacillation and tightfistedness led to still more warfare and military disasters, which on several occasions would have ended the Ming dynasty.”