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In the final week of a contentious midterm election when voters are understandably focused on pocket-book issues, a collection of anti-gay groups and politicians are crisscrossing Iowa in a bus tour aimed at ousting three state Supreme Court justices who took a particular view of the state constitution.
Joe Solmonese: NOM-Led Iowa Campaign Threatens Judicial Independence Everywhere Joe Solmonese 2010
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When Charisse finally made it home that evening, she had barely put down her pocket-book before she picked up the telephone and dialed his office number, which she had memorized.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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Exit polls also indicate that voters are dissatisfied with the federal government and want to see politicians find common ground on pocket-book issues that can improve the economy.
Joel Velasco: Fiscal Responsibility and Bipartisanship are Easy to Achieve on Biofuels Policy Joel Velasco 2010
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The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush.
THE DESCENT 2010
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Exit polls also indicate that voters are dissatisfied with the federal government and want to see politicians find common ground on pocket-book issues that can improve the economy.
Joel Velasco: Fiscal Responsibility and Bipartisanship are Easy to Achieve on Biofuels Policy Joel Velasco 2010
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Exit polls also indicate that voters are dissatisfied with the federal government and want to see politicians find common ground on pocket-book issues that can improve the economy.
Joel Velasco: Fiscal Responsibility and Bipartisanship are Easy to Achieve on Biofuels Policy Joel Velasco 2010
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Beyond the bulky pocket-book which had so narrowly escaped a watery grave, there was little of an incriminating nature to be found on the prisoner.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Beyond the bulky pocket-book which had so narrowly escaped a watery grave, there was little of an incriminating nature to be found on the prisoner.
Espionage 2009
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Exit polls also indicate that voters are dissatisfied with the federal government and want to see politicians find common ground on pocket-book issues that can improve the economy.
Joel Velasco: Fiscal Responsibility and Bipartisanship are Easy to Achieve on Biofuels Policy Joel Velasco 2010
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He opened his pocket-book and counted out the bills.
The Clinging Death 2010
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