Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's panhandlers have been put on notice -- and are noticeably less aggressive. "If I'm asking for trouble, then I'll get it," says Danny LaJoie, sitting cross-legged on a street corner, a cup of loose change at his feet. From his back pocket, LaJoie pulls out a black-and-white postcard showing four drunks slumped against a building. It reads, "Greetings from Seattle . . . America's most livable city!" These days the joke just isn't the same...
Babbitt, the only candidate offering a realistic plan for serious deficit reductions, is at once more fiscally conservative than Ronald Reagan and more rigorously progressive than Walter Mondale. Babbitt proposes to shrink the Federal Government to a size Americans are willing to pay for out of pocket: without borrowing, driving up interest rates and choking the economy. He would accomplish this mainly by "needs-testing" social spending so that more goes to the poor rather than to the upper and middle classes, who now consume nearly a third of the federal budget. He would, for example, raise taxes on Social...
...stump, Babbitt occasionally asks his listeners to stand up if they want their taxes raised or their Government benefits cut. "No takers? Well, let me put it another way," he says, pointing to a young girl in the audience. "How many of you are willing to pick her pocket, just so our generation can consume more than it's willing to pay for?" The line often gets good response, which Babbitt takes as evidence that the "voters know we can't keep spending our children's inheritance...
...would he pay the bills for his campaign? Hart reached into his pocket and held up a black wallet. He had driven around New Hampshire that day in a friend's white van, holding route directions in his hand and pointing out signs to a volunteer driver. That night he would sleep at a former staffer's house in Concord. Hart said that to help finance his 1984 presidential campaign he was forced to take a mortgage on his home. "Never again," he said firmly. He believed enough money would come in for a couple of months' campaigning. After...
...California, runs a large Brahman cattle ranch by himself and for fun ropes four nights a week. Mohammed Talbi, a Tunisian villager educated in France, works for the Arid Land Institute in North Africa. Ron Lister arrived in Arizona three weeks before the workshop began with $40 in his pocket and a flat tire, and had never cowboyed. Mary Caldwell, sixtyish, has whittled a piece of wood into a horse during the week, and says she does all the riding on her ranch while her husband stays at home. Savory's Center for Holistic Resource Management also works with...