"There is a well-funded group out there that is pushing this agenda … that want to get into your pocketbooks," Palmer was quoted as saying in an appearance at an industry forum in St Louis.
Development wonks say governments should invest in health insurance not just out of the goodness of their hearts, but for the sake of their pocketbooks.
But if suitably educated, they tend to vote with their pocketbooks, reckons Karen Ackerman, the AFL-CIO's political director.
No more.Yet though pocketbooks are plump, unease lingers.
It's worth reading in full to see what the president has actually said and done about gas prices, but here's the nub:Some of Obama's comments from 2008 suggest that he thinks there's a silver lining to higher prices, but they also indicate that he doesn't want energy prices to affect the pocketbooks of working families.
But Mr Bush will still hope the open-minded voters of Colorado and Ohio keep their pocketbooks closed on election day.Our US election briefing in PDF format is available to subscribers here.
Yet he receives high marks from "the donors"—the ambassadors and other foreign officials whose views may persuade the G8's leaders to open, or keep closed, their pocketbooks at Gleneagles next week.In this section Is the president-elect as grim as he sounds?
Consumers, in the meantime, are grading pearls with their pocketbooks.
In another chart this week, the two-decade-long rise of services rather than goods is starting to sputter in the war for consumer pocketbooks in Germany, Britain and America.
Machine cutting of footwear, bags, pocketbooks, and similar items is done with die presses.
His obvious pro-French leanings, however, added to the hostility of the nobles, whose pocketbooks had suffered by Russian participation in the Continental System, the systematic economic warfare employed by Napoleon against England.
