Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suits, payment normally is quick. In those liability and libel suits where huge judgments make huge headlines, the uninsured loser may pay up, post a bond and appeal - or resort to pure procrastination. Appeals are a prime source of delay and hold great promise for the loser's pocketbook. Only a few weeks ago, a New York appeals court lopped nearly $3,000,000 from the $3,500,000 libel verdict won in July 1962 by Radio-TV Entertainer John Henry Faulk. While he was waiting for the latest verdict, Faulk's legal costs grew to the point...
...chewing, electronically endowed apparatus of a modern state; and these form the basis of the most curious book of the current publishing season. Edmund Wilson's pamphlet against the income tax is invested with the wild eloquence that comes to a man who has been wounded in the pocketbook...
...device on many of its ships, and along the world's coastlines, where the bulk of merchant shipping still plies its way, the new navigator may soon prove indispensable. Though the first commercial models may cost upwards of $10,000, the price is expected eventually to come within pocketbook range of the well-heeled amateur skipper...
...harsh picture of unscrupulous undertakers, victimizing simple, grief-confused Americans. She points out the petty racketeering, shady legislation, and help from newspapers and florists which contribute to the situation. Her essential approach is economic; she tends to feel that for Americans, death's sting is mainly transmitted through the pocketbook. Her arguments are phrased in dollars and cents, and her case, though effectively put, is peculiarly lopsided...
...million Negroes have more income ($27 billion annually) than ever-and some pragmatic beliefs about spending it. "The quickest way to a white man's conscience," goes a favorite Negro saying, "is through his pocketbook." This may hit the mark, because the most successful Negro civil rights stratagem so far has been neither sit-in nor lawsuit. Negro leaders, skirting restraint-of-trade laws, call the device "selective buying." It is really a consumer boycott, and it can be devastatingly effective...