Word: pocketbook
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Such a rise moreover would not have an entirely beneficial effect on the middle class pocketbook. Lower-middle class families are already resigned to making sacrifices and can also obtain scholarships; upper class families can absorb an additional bill without losing more than a few coupons. But the two-car family which has peculiar demands upon its savings gets caught in the pinch which has already hit the slightly less prosperous family. Unless both the scale and theory of scholarship aid are revised, financial aid officers are likely to continue looking askance at pleas from the so-called middle-middles...
...tries to design china to fit the buyer's personality as well as his pocketbook. From the ornate Sans Souci ware, originally designed for Frederick the Great, to severe, modern patterns that now make up nearly 50% of its production, Rosenthal aims to make good china everyone's dish...
...NATURAL GAS FOR INTERSTATE USE IN 1953. JUST TWO COMPANIES CONTROL APPROXIMATELY ONE-SEVENTH OF ALL U.S. NATURAL-GAS RESERVES. MY STAND IS TAKEN TO PROTECT FREE ENTERPRISE AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST, NOT TO PROVIDE SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS BY DIPPING INTO THE CAPTIVE CONSUMER'S POCKETBOOK...
GENERAL ELECTRIC will push into the commercial market for electronic machines in a big way. After making specialized computers for military and engineering use, G.E. will build and market a complete line of electronic computers for business use, ranging from "pocketbook editions" to giant, million-dollar brains filling three average-size rooms...
...Housemasters granted the privilege of entertaining women in the Houses on Saturday until eleven because they reasoned that the extension would relieve a strain on the student's pocketbook and provide an alternative to elbowing through Cronin's or parking on Storrow Drive. The change has improved conditions, but it has not provided a real solution...