The 25th installment of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, the massive design trade show that runs through tomorrow at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, is a playground for bachelors (or would-be bachelors) with big pocketbooks.
At the same time, it's also a town where people will speak their minds, saying things like: "What is that, a harmonica?" "Are all massage tables that size?" "Is it legal to carry something that big?" "Pocketbooks keep getting bigger and bigger these days".
Most of the people in Washington are part of the status quo, and we know the worst polluters also have big pocketbooks to protect their interests.
"This is a bigger pocketbook issue than taxes right now," said Karl Struble, a Washington media consultant who has made prescription drug advertisements for clients like Mr. Schweitzer in Montana and Ed Bernstein, a Democrat running for an open Senate seat in Nevada.
Chávez himself has travelled to Cuba scores, if not hundreds, of times during his thirteen years as Venezuela's President, treating Cuba, in effect, as an offshore territory in a joint revolutionary enterprise in which, despite his bigger pocketbook, he has always seen himself as the junior partner.
"Users don't want to see results sorted by who has the biggest pocketbook".
In the technology world, it isn't always about who has the most advanced tech or even who is first, as much as who has the biggest pocketbook.
It's truly effective at just one thing: forcing candidates to cater to supporters with the most extreme views in that particular party and the biggest pocketbooks.
"And there are not many companies that have as big a pocketbook as Unilever.
"Put not your bags and briefcases and pocketbooks and coats, your Big Brown Bag and your Medium Brown Bag, on the seat next to you in the hope that this will dissuade one of your fellows from roosting there.
