If thrift worked then, you would think it could work much better now.

The information does not tell you what a thrift or a bank is really worth.

"In the end, there will be no choice but for the thrift industry to use government money."

Q. So what is the future of the thrift industry?

Business has never been better for the people who might be called "thrift doctors."

Finally, there is no way to know just how many thrifts will be taken over.

I have since then given it away to a thrift shop.

The same ought to be true for a bank or a thrift.

"Baseball is the only business with no research and development," Thrift said.

But the thrift crisis is a 10- to 15-year problem.

He is waiting for someone to open the thrift shop.

Many people do not like thrift shops, and some of them are my friends.

He had argued that black people could better themselves by hard work and thrift.

He had decided to preserve them at the last only out of thrift.

"The Bush people want us to get votes on the thrift bill," he said.

Overall, these three groups thrift to save money because they have to or want to.

But few thrift executives expect much action in coming months.

With thrift and hard work you can build a palace.

That figure does not include thrift insurance funds used before 1986 or after 1996.

The only thing the thrift managers knew was how much they wanted to sell.

"To my knowledge, no bank or thrift has done that."

At a thrift shop down the road, the workers considered new uses for the building.

A return to Victorian values of thrift will not meet them.

"They've got to come and see me," he said earlier, but Thrift never did.

Her idea of opening a thrift shop has really paid off.

The island is covered in sea thrift.

Geraniums, sea thrift and bedding spill over the edge.

She had gathered some sea thrift and they lay papery and pink in her lap.

It is a popular garden flower, known by several common names, including thrift, sea thrift, and sea pink.

Armeria maritima (sea thrift, sea cushion, sea pink)

The area's dry and nutrient-poor sandy soil provides a habitat for numerous endangered plants such as the sea thrift, childing pink and wild thyme.

The Andrews also climbed on Porthmoina Island but left the main cliff, its ravens, badgers and ledges of campion and sea thrift alone.

As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose sea thrift (Armeria maritima) as the "county flower" of the islands.

The shingle ridges attract biting stonecrop, sea campion, yellow horned poppy, sea thrift, bird's foot trefoil and sea beet.

Species growing here include Sea Thrift, Sea Arrowgrass, Sea Plantain, Common salt marsh grass, Juncus gerardii, Juncus maritimus and turf fucoids.

The coastline is well-known for its colourful flowers including Sea Aster, Sea Squill, Sea Thrift, Common Sea-lavender, Bell and Common Heather.

The 91 feet tall lighthouse has been warning ships of danger since 1809 and the cliffs above it are a great place to perch amongst the pink sea thrift and watch the sea birds down below.

Along the western coast, on the shores of island, rock and cliff he saw cushions of pink sea thrift on rocks where lichens of yellow and red and green made each ancient rock a beauty in itself.

Atlantic salt marshes fringe on the blanket bog in this area also and species include turf fucoids, sea thrift, sea arrowgrass, Sea Plantain, salt marsh grasses, rushes Juncus gerardii and Juncus maritimus.

Elder bushes grow near the freshwater spring and sea pinks are very common.

The tufted pink flowers that are most prominent are sea pinks.

Just recently she has been snapping sea pink, purple eyebright and creamy meadowsweet.

It is a popular garden flower, known by several common names, including thrift, sea thrift, and sea pink.

The blade tips seemed to be scraping the tufts of sea pinks which sprinkled the gull colony.

Sea pink may refer to:

' Patrick eased the faded sea pink out of the pocket and stuck it in the buttonhole of his shirt.

Flecked with oyster catchers and sea pinks, it is a soothing spot in which to ponder the rewards of violence.

Armeria berlengensis is a flowering plant, a member of a mostly Mediterranean group including the thrifts and sea pinks.

The late evening sun has turned the faint, high clouds over the sea pink and the light falls into every room, filling them with rose and shadows.

Midge's sea pinks.

We used to lie on the cliffs among the sea pinks and gorse bushes and talk-or rather she talked and I listened.

Seals, basking sharks and dolphins are found in the surrounding water, while sea pinks and honeysuckle are common plants on the land.

At the brink of 400ft sandstone cliffs, tussocky clumps of sea pinks quivered as the waves agitated below.

These plants are sometimes known as "Lady's Cushion", "thrift", or "sea pink" (the latter because as they are often found on coastlines).

Armeria maritima (sea thrift, sea cushion, sea pink)

Brogan describes Sea Pinks' style as having "substituted Girls Names' shades of grey for a sunnier disposition and more stripped-down sound".

We listened to larks singing as we walked over machair, a carpet of yellow, white and pink with thousands of buttercups, daisies and sea pinks.

The shore is strewn with black, white and pink speckled Omey granite and wildflowers such as the prickly-gray sea holly and tiny, carnationlike sea pinks.

Smothered in sea pinks and thrift, the cliffs are a perfect vantage point to see hundreds of ships from oil tankers to little fishing trawlers plying the waters below.

One springtime a local schoolgirl picked 30 species of wildflowers in an hour, flowers like thrift, sea pink, yellow oxalis, viper's bugloss, bird's foot trefoil, star of Bethlehem.

Brogan performs his own material as Sea Pinks, singing and playing guitar and frequently enlisting Cully and Miskimmin, on bass and drums respectively, for live shows.

On Hirta and Soay, they prefer the plantago pastures, which grow well in locations exposed to sea spray and include Red Fescue, Sea Plantain and Sea Pink.

Atop the sheer headland overlooking the wreck, in treeless pasture stippled with sea pink, a heather flower, Les Fishman, a tourist from southern England, watched the seals playing near the ship and shook his head in wonder.

The scrubland is formed mainly of autochthonous species, like gorse, broom, spurge flax (Thymelaea), rockrose (Cistaceae), Sea Pink Armeria maritima, Spiny Thrift Armeria pungens, Corema album, etc.