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  • It has been usual to think of the accumulated wealth of the world as having been painfully built up out of that voluntary abstinence of individuals from the immediate enjoyment of consumption, which we call Thrift.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • It has been usual to think of the accumulated wealth of the world as having been painfully built up out of that voluntary abstinence of individuals from the immediate enjoyment of consumption, which we call Thrift.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • Members of Congress and other federal employees already have something like this called the Thrift Savings Plan.

    My Response: It is About Ownership - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

  • Well just then it was the word Thrift which was out in the streets walking arm in arm with righteousness, the inseparable companion and backer up of all such national catch-words, looking everybody in the eye as it were.

    Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Just about that time the word Thrift was to the fore.

    Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Just about that time the word Thrift was to the fore.

    Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Well just then it was the word Thrift which was out in the streets walking arm in arm with righteousness, the inseparable companion and backer up of all such national catch-words, looking everybody in the eye as it were.

    Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Believers cite as their model the federal 401 (k), known as the Thrift Savings Plan.

    Star Wars And Social Security 2007

  • Personal retirement accounts should be familiar to federal employees, because you already have something similar, called the Thrift Savings Plan, which lets workers deposit a portion of their paychecks into any of five different broadly based investment funds.

    02/02/2005 2005

  • Personal retirement accounts should be familiar to federal employees, because you already have something similar, called the Thrift Savings Plan, which lets workers deposit a portion of their paychecks into any of five different broadly based investment funds.

    2005 State of the Union Address 2005

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