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Places like Price Club and Tuesday Morning allow them to do just that--to buy what they can't afford at prices they can. This preserves the prestige factor while simultaneously protecting the pocketbook of America's most appearance-conscious class. What an odd heir to the Protestant Ethic...
...same reason the majority does: he likes the winner better. "I vote for the best man regardless of the party," says my old man. His method is not scientific. He may watch a debate--and zip around the dial during the lulls. He doesn't really vote his pocketbook, at least not in a what's-in-it-for-me way. "I want someone who I think is talking to me," he says...
...close race for the First's open seat, Dupwe is aiming straight at the pocketbook as he tries to close the 6% gap by which he lost the last election to retiring Democrat Blanche Lambert. Like other Arkansas Republicans, he supports a program of individual tax cuts to stimulate the economy, and a $500-per-child tax credit for those who make less than $75,000 a year. He's taken some shots for his stand on Medicare cuts, but he's counting on his G.O.P. connections, including a visit by actor Charlton Heston, to put him over...
Cooksey wants the government out of everyone's hair--and pocketbook. The eye doctor, who has raised money for a clinic in Kenya and occasionally performs eye surgery there, would lower taxes, eliminate the departments of Energy and Education and declare a moratorium on new federal regulations. In this newly created district, made up largely of conservatives, that should give him an edge, which he would need against the more politically savvy Francis Thompson...
Istook's stringent concern for the federal pocketbook is well known: a recent study rated him in the top 5% in Congress on fighting wasteful government spending. He's also conservative socially, and proposed a measure that would have required parental consent for minors to get contraceptives or treatment of sexually transmitted diseases...