Word: pocketbooks
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...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...
...just passed a law which allows fathers up to 13 weeks of unpaid paternity leave during the first five years of each of their children's lives. With Booth already earning an estimated three times her husband's salary, Blair's missed paycheck should little affect the family's pocketbook...
...thieves are not particularly crafty, Pasquarello says; they have no need to be. They will enter a restaurant, look around for someone who has their coat on the back of their chair and ask for an adjacent table. From there, they can reach back and take a purse, pocketbook, or items in the coat pockets...