digress, repeal, penny pinching

Life in the cheap lane is sometimes rough, sometimes funny -- and sometimes financially rewarding. In his new weekly column Cheapskate, Personal Finance Editor Neal Templin shares lessons learned from a lifetime of penny pinching.

'Dear American Airlines'

By JONATHAN MILES
Reviewed by RICHARD RUSSO

Jonathan Miles’s fine first novel takes the form of a letter from a stranded traveler, who uses the time to digress on a lifetime of regrets and an impressive array of cultural issues, large and small.

VITAL SIGNS

Safety: Deaths Soar After Repeal of Helmet Law

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR

Researchers who studied deaths and injuries after a helmet law was repealed say that decision had lethal, and expensive, consequences.

New Jersey scraps death penalty

Lawmakers in the US state of New Jersey have voted to abolish the death penalty. Members of the Democrat-controlled state assembly backed legislation to substitute capital punishment with lifetime prison sentences without the possibility of parole. The state's Democrat governor is expected to sign the bill into law next week.
It would make New Jersey the first US state in more than 40 years to repeal the death penalty. The death penalty is on the statute books in 36 other states, although several are re-examining the use of capital punishment.



repeal
verb [T] ━━ n., vt. （法律などを）廃止（する）, 撤回（する）.
If a government repeals a law, it causes that law no longer to have any legal force.

repeal
noun [S or U]
We're campaigning for a/the repeal of the abortion laws.

digress
verb [I]
to move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about something else:
But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.
The lecturer temporarily digressed from her subject to deal with a related theory.

digression
noun [C or U]
Talking about money now would be a digression from the main purpose of this meeting.

penny pinching
adj.
Giving or spending money grudgingly; stingy.
pennypinching pen'ny-pinch'ing n.