Word: pocketbooks
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...bitter battle over that crown jewel of the Great Society, Democrats are determined to refashion themselves as defenders of the middle class against the G.O.P. raiders. It was the foul mood of the middle class that made welfare a losing issue for Democrats. And for the same reason, with pocketbook issues dominating the final weeks of the congressional budget fight, the latest items on the Republican agenda could now play in favor of the Democrats...
...magazine dedicated to minority concerns, claims that it's "pretty easy to start an organization" but that "money is everything." Money, says Margaret E. Bourdeaux '97, has been one of her biggest obstacles in developing the as yet unchartered Hippocratic Society. Recruiting members has been "hard on the pocketbook," she confirms...
...present an issue and it's going to hitthem in their pocketbook or in their lives, intheir housing, they're going to mobilize," saysMaragioglio, who is the president of the PisaniCenter Tenants Council, the tenants group ofNewtowne Court and Washington Elms...
...union accepts the changes in their negotiations next spring, Rathburn estimates the additional annual drain on her pocketbook from the increased co-payments would...
...incumbent fever across the land, the vote yesterday was decidedly anti-Democratic, political pundits said. Election results show a complete distaste for President Clinton -- as evidenced by the defeat of the popular Texas Governor Ann Richards. In exit polls, about half of the voters leaving polling places said their pocketbook situations hadn't improved under Clinton and a quarter said things were worse for them. So the voters got even with Democrats -- the party running Congress for most of their lifetimes. "Not since 1952 have Republicans controlled the United States Congress," crowed Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas. "That's when...