Word: pocketbook
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...Broder's nose for "a broad and strong constituency" may be right; after all, here's a man who's been around Washington longer than the Potomac. And matching new programs directly against the public pocketbook would certainly prick up a few voter ears. But there's already a "broad and strong constituency" for economy in government, along with one for campaign finance reform, a cleaner environment, improving the nation's schools and ending poverty, and look where that's gotten the voters. That's why only half of them vote...
...numbers are staggering. Each year as many as 15% of all U.S. hospital admissions, some 100,000 deaths and $136 billion in medical costs result from harmful reactions to drugs. But relief is on the way. All too aware of the toll on the nation's health and pocketbook, medical researchers are devising a host of safer and more effective drug-delivery systems, many of them also designed to overcome the pain and inconvenience of traditional remedies. They range from such low-tech items as anal suppositories to innerspace-age microcraft reminiscent of the tiny ship that carried Raquel Welch...
...activities is of little concern to him. He must use a cell-phone, for he has no need for the lower phone rates the council brokered. Likewise, he doesn't deign to take holiday shuttles to the airport, for the $35 cab ride doesn't vex his pocketbook. He must never have purchased a used-book at the COOP, for the fact that the council has pressured the COOP to add hundreds of used book titles to it racks is a matter of indifference to him. When buying books online, saving money at "UC Books" just isn't his style...
...markets have their own particular issues when it comes to elections; they're usually narrow, pocketbook issues - taxation, regulation and, lately, the handling of the budget. But in a country that made "It's the economy, stupid" the wisest utterance in politics (though there may be a new champ after this race), Main Street and Wall Street have developed a similar taste in presidents...
Dietrich, weeping, turns to her old Sunday School teacher. "Do you have a Kleenex?" she asks. Wise, as if the 35 years had never happened, calmly opens her beige pocketbook and hands her a tissue. Then she leans forward and gives Dietrich a couple more. "Just in case," she says...