Word: pocketbooks
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These examples illustrate the ways a franchise can afford to keep its stars happy, without taking large chunks out of its pocketbook or salary cap each year...
...than that. Along the way, these merchandisers are reaping impressive profits by catering more assiduously to a roughly $10 billion sector of the fashion market. Says Nancye Radmin, founder of the Forgotten Woman chain of 17 shops for larger customers: "Everyone thinks that when a woman gains weight, her pocketbook and brain shrink. This just...
...However," he continued, "your basic point is correct. Yes, I do think there are too many mutual favors. The press cannot be impartial if it has its hand in the pocketbook of those which it means to cover...
Many American and European officials have begun to argue, however, that the effectiveness of economic sanctions is not as important as the political statement they represent. As such, the measures are aimed as much at South Africa's standing in the world community as at its pocketbook. Said Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray III, a strong advocate of House action: "Sanctions are a statement of where we stand as a nation, not an attempt to bring a government down...
...Shaw, why did you give up piano?" No less than a million investment bankers recently posed this stinging question to a me clad in gray wool and white silk, clutching a pocketbook. (What's the difference between a purse and a pocketbook?) Here came the question which wrote itself into my resume and comes to challenge...