Word: pocketbook
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...this dramatic shift come about in a nation long purported to have its heart on the left but its pocketbook, and its votes, on the right? Why such a crushing rejection of an incumbent President who only six months ago was given 60% in the opinion polls, and whose performance had seemed so creditable in many respects? Under Giscard, after all, France had become Europe's foremost aerospace manufacturer, the largest European producer of nuclear energy, a world leader in industrial and agricultural exports and, on the whole, a more prosperous nation than when he took office seven years...
...surprised them, anything could have happened," she says. Ramp emerged from the ordeal unscathed-but $25 poorer: "After watching the whole thing, I felt obliged to buy the shirt." Assistant Picture Editor Sue Considine, who gathered the photos that accompany the cover stories, lost $120 from her pocketbook in a Greenwich Village restaurant. Says she: "Now I know to keep...
...convinced that voter anger in most states was directed against the unfair tax burdens first, general pocketbook frustrations second, and "government" only a distant third. But the failure of many orthodox liberals to take tax grievances seriously and their reflexive concern with defending the level of government outlays rather than their quality, drove many working-class constituents into an odd alliance with right-wing populists of the Jarvis stripe and later with business conservatives...
...however, in an era when excessive gasoline consumption has become offensive to nostril, pocketbook and national pride, automotive abstinence has become a virtue. The kiwi is in the catbird seat. The man or woman who gets to work by bicycle or shanks' mare trails clouds of self-esteem as palpable as the carbon dioxide fumes he has forsworn. Whether he refuses to buy a car at today's prices or simply will not or cannot take the wheel, he can be said to have heeded official pleas to share the ride (though it is someone else who does...
...Democrats were in power, their party developed a kind of character, one that reached a pinnacle of form in John Kennedy?that is, the character of the interesting party, the party of real intellectual movement, the party of the mind. Conversely, the G.O.P. was the party of the pocketbook, the pinstripe and the snort. Goodbye to all that. The G.O.P. is now by far the more interesting of the two parties. And much of the anticipation of the Reagan presidency has to do with the fact that people recognize that an idea is taking shape...