Word: pocketbook
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...audience loved it. They applauded when Fiedorak announced that her suits featured pockets sewed lower than men's. Many sighed when Feidorak announced she was in the process of pioneering a briefcase that could also double as a pocketbook...
...Best friend the oil companies ever had. Decontrols domestic crude. Hits the little guy hard in his dwindling pocketbook...
...making his fifth and, he promises, his last, run for the Senate, "Target McGovern" and other groups began as early as two years ago to disseminate literature and recruit volunteers, all in an attempt to soften up the progressives for Republican challenger Jim Abdnor. Abdnor pressed the attack on pocketbook issues, letting his less chivalrous allies address issues like abortion. But their efforts began to backfire--one pamphlet accused the father of five of being a baby killer, enough to convince many South Dakotans that their senior Senator truly was the victim of a smear campaign controlled from beyond their...
...tart-tongued, self-styled "fighter," though she preferred to describe herself as a "Maitland housewife." But as accustomed as they are to a good scrap, the two candidates have so far kept the gloves on. Both tirelessly remind voters of their records and promise to focus on pocketbook issues in the Senate. Standing in a drizzle in downtown St. Petersburg last week, Gunter told an elderly crowd that he would fight for improvements in Medicare and for banning all mandatory retirement. The next day, Hawkins, campaigning in brilliant sunshine in Port Saint Joe, promised to seek a Senate investigation...
Rarely in the past, except in time of war, has foreign policy been the decisive American political issue. But the opinion data now show the social issues waning and worldly well-being ranking up close to pocketbook economics...