Word: pocketbook
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...campaign season is upon Israel, and it is politics at its worst: a steady diet of demagoguery, diatribe, distortion and plain dirt. The Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, now in its eleventh month, has crowded out pocketbook issues and focused Israeli thinking on the far more emotional themes of peace and security. In that sense, the Nov. 1 election is nothing less than a referendum on Israel's policies toward the occupied territories. Likud asserts a territorial imperative that cedes no ground to the Palestinians; Labor is willing to negotiate territorial compromise in exchange for peace. Each side accuses...
...third of its pace in the early 1980s. Interest rates are only half as high as eight years ago. The U.S. economy shrugged off the October 1987 stock-market crash to record a sixth straight year of growth, a feat unprecedented during peacetime. So why, given the fact that pocketbook issues eventually dominate almost every presidential campaign, is George Bush not running away with the election...
Cambridge Police Lt. Calvin Kantor said Foppiano "had a pocketbook with her, and she told him she had a bottle of vodka inside and suggested they stop and take a drink. So they did, and she reached inside the pocketbook and pulled out a razor and sliced his throat," according to a published report in the Boston Globe...
Parents, beware: the stores are filled with jabbering dolls, video villains, electronic spaceships and kiddie camcorders. But many of the latest playthings leave little to the imagination and nothing in the pocketbook. -- The Farmbelt is celebrating a good harvest and a modest recovery, but U. S. agriculture is still too reliant on federal aid. -- Ailing E. F. Hutton is listening -- to potential buyers...
Appealing to the pocketbook vote, the Tories underlined their achievements in a slick 26-page electoral pamphlet and in a flood of positive statistics. Among the gains: two-thirds of Britons own their homes today, up from 50% when Thatcher assumed office. Car ownership has risen from 54% to 66%. The number of Britons who are stockholders has almost tripled, from 7% to 20%, and the number of those who consider themselves to belong to the middle class has increased from 30% of the population to roughly 50% over the past eight years. Inflation has been cut from...