Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans are fretting over that ancient Freudian riddle--What do women want?--while aiming programs at them called "A Seat at the Table" (haven't they noticed many women are sitting there already?), or designing cards with "Twelve Important Messages for Women" that can "fit in a man's pocket and a woman's purse," in the words of one G.O.P. operative. Democrats too have launched a guerrilla operation to snag women in this election. But mostly the Democrats are smirking because they're pretty sure that whatever women want, or will want in November, it doesn't rhyme with...
...they said would lower prices of many goods and services by cutting the insurance and litigation costs of manufacturers. As Clinton vetoed the measure, Bob Dole cried foul and charged that the President, whose campaign received $2.5 million dollars from lawyers and law firms last year, was in the pocket of the trial lawyers that opposed the bill. Noting that corporations and organizations supporting the bill pumped almost $6 million last year into the war chests of Congressional supporters, Democrats retorted that Republicans merely representing big business. "Both sides offer arguments of principle to justify their positions," says TIME...
...cutthroat duel to the death," says John Connor, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. "The ultimate weapon, steep price cuts, is rarely used." That has kept profit margins high. Ronald Cotterill, director of the Food Marketing Policy Center at the University of Connecticut, estimates that cereal firms pocket an average of 17% of their sales as operating income, vs. 7% to 8% for the food industry as a whole...
...management. As Weiner notes, "A lot of people, particularly physicians, have criticized the many millions of dollars of profits ceos of U.S. Healthcare and other for-profit managed-health-care companies have made." Leonard Abramson, the founder of U.S. Healthcare, whom Compton hails as a "visionary genius," stands to pocket some $920 million in cash and stock from the merger--not bad for a guy who drove a cab to put himself through pharmacy school. Last week Abramson boasted, "We intend to set the standard against which all health-care companies will be measured...
While some incentives seem to pull in enough new jobs and taxes to recoup the lost revenues, other giveaways fail to do so. The pain is most acute when corporations pocket the money and then cut their work force or defect to a new location. New York City knows the feeling only too well. In a case that still rankles, it handed AT&T $20 million in tax relief in the 1980s, only to see the phone company later disconnect and move most of its corporate staff to New Jersey. Still, the city is frenetically defending its turf with handouts...