Word: pocketbook
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...find in the Waldenbooks at the mall back home. Of course, most shops display the standard selection of bestsellers and books on tape. But look a little harder and you'll find that the Square has a store to fit almost every book lover's taste (and pocketbook...
...election campaign largely unencumbered by substance, Democrats and Republicans last year were sharply divided by one pocketbook issue: whether to cut the tax on capital gains. George Bush favored the move as a way to encourage investment and create jobs. Democrats attacked it as welfare for the wealthy, since nearly 70% of individual capital gains are reported by taxpayers earning $100,000-plus a year...
Future Fears. The outgoing Administration's feel-good rhetoric, together with continued economic expansion and moderate inflation, has shaped the public's positive perception of pocketbook issues. A solid majority of 63% consider economic conditions in the country today either "very good" or "fairly good." But when asked about the 1990s, Americans harbor doubts about their own prospects and their children's. Even larger majorities fear that interest rates and inflation will accelerate during the next year...
...woman's intelligence and her ultimate helplessness, so that they view her as her son does: with affection and even admiration despite her frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she serves a dinner of warm milk (hers liberally laced from a pocketbook flask) in an apartment without electricity, to the climactic reunion, when she arrives unkempt in a bedraggled housecoat and proceeds to exude glamour and sophistication from every pore, she makes life an adventure. Unlike the mother in The Glass Menagerie, whose tale of having 17 gentlemen callers seems...
Dukakis' populist appeal is an elite-seeking missile homing in on the pocketbook. He suggested that Bush's proposed capital-gains tax break would help the privileged few "hire a second butler." He derided it by using the example of a taxpayer who reported capital gains of $515,132 between 1985 and 1987. Such a taxpayer would save $22,000 a year. His name: "George Herbert Walker Bush...