Word: pocketbook
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...version of TV news. Stories are short and neutral, and often lead, TV style, with the outlook rather than the hard facts. The paper's appeal is strongly visual: it relies heavily on pictures, charts and other graphics. Like local newscasts, USA Today stresses human interest and the pocketbook impact of events. The major difference from TV is that the paper has no stars: the writing is homogenized, with few grace notes or personal touches, and there is no showcasing of columnists...
...April, which is equal to an annual rate of 560.2%. In most countries, newspaper headlines and gossip focus on crime or sports; in Argentina, there is a morbid fascination with the economy. Even during the Falkland Islands war with Britain, the major topic of conversation continued to be the pocketbook. People are also intensely interested in talking about Argentina's $43.6 billion foreign debt, which represents about 75% of last year's gross domestic product...
...gravewear for the body and ornate caskets equipped with comfortable innerspring mattresses. Though the book stirred public indignation and helped lead to numerous investigations of the funeral business, it was not until last week that the U.S. Government finally took action to ease death's sting to the pocketbook...
Library Larcenies: A female victim told police that someone took $34 from her pocketbook in a desk drawer in the Schlesinger Library Monday between 9 a.m. and noon. A handbag sitting near a desk with $8 in cash inside was reported stolen from the same library between 9 and 11 a.m. Wednesday...
These signs of hope on the economic front were of small help for the delegates at Bourg-en-Bresse. Said a Socialist Deputy from the southwest: "If I go into my rural district and tell my constituents that the foreign trade deficit has improved, they just look at me." Pocketbook concerns also overshadowed Mitterrand's assertive foreign policies, including the dispatch of troops to Chad and Lebanon, and the maintenance of firm support for the Atlantic Alliance. Such moves are quietly disapproved of by his Communist allies and by small factions of his own party, but endorsed...