Word: pocketbooks
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...argument parried, Library administrators are left with no excuse but finances if they are to turn down a request for longer hours once more. They have been forced to admit that the students' complaints are valid and their reasons good. Ultimately, then, the decision will be made by the pocketbook, despite the reasons that the administration may give a few weeks from...
...independent GREENSBORO, N.C. DAILY NEWS: "Peace and Prosperity" offset the "pocketbook nerves." The real power will remain where it has been during the last two years, in the hands of the normally conservative Republican-Democratic coalition...
Fair-Dealing Columnist DORIS FLEESON : This is a pocketbook election. The emotional issues which swept Gen. Eisenhower into the White House have receded far into the background. The American people may not be proud of the truce in Korea but they have apparently thrust that unpopular war into the back of their minds. They seem to have similarly discounted the setback in Indo-China. Sen. McCarthy is another dead duck. The campaign is lethargic in large part because these emotional, highly personal issues have been superseded by economic questions. And there is no doubt the Democratic trend results from...
...gritty factories, it is the most heavily populated area in Europe, with nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants in its 900 square miles. The vast majority are Germans; they drink beer, not wine, and French is seldom heard. But France has an appeal to Saarlanders too: an appeal to the pocketbook...
...problems with associates, listens to every angle, then makes his decisions quickly and without worry. Says Curtice: "The best committee is the committee of one." But Curtice's greatest talent is his innate knowledge of what will tickle an auto buyer's fancy-and open up his pocketbook. Says G.M.'s Chief Designer Harley Earl: "Curtice is the best shopper we've ever...