Loosening the purse strings did not mean abandoning the frugality that was the clearest consumer trend during the recession.
With time-pressured but empowered women controlling household budgets, how should marketers go about getting them to loosen their purse strings?
Investors are already tightening their purse strings.
Yet even if shoppers are out in force, their purse strings are likely to be tightened by rising unemployment.
"After all, most wives believe their husbands have no secret assets and they have a grip on their family purse strings, " the life insurer said.
The Treasurer refused to let go of the club's purse strings.
When people who hold the purse strings tell people asking for money to answer those three questions very specifically, they're asking for almost useless information.
The hope is that the deal will herald a more general loosening of purse strings.
Objective: Discuss a more ideal method of purse string suture and pull of rectum mucosa.
Faced with huge difficulties of their own, Banks have tightened their purse strings, lending less and driving up the cost of credit to consumers and corporations.
I don't want to hold the purse strings though I see who holds the purse rules the house.
This is rather new for the IMF, which has rarely advocated loosening purse strings in poor countries.
In America, by contrast, anxiety about public debt is making businesses and consumers tighten their purse strings.
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