Our challenge is to get them to open their purses, says Pia.
People have consistently voted with their purses against carrying around heavy, bulky coins.
So even if they splurged during Golden Week, most Japanese are still reluctant to open their purses, a problem given that consumer spending accounts for 60% of GDP.
But to ensure that gifted individuals from all backgrounds get to university because of their brains and not their purses, there should be full public scholarships for university study.
While older business families such as the Tatas and Birlas have a long-established tradition of charity, the more recent wealth creators have yet to open their purses in a big way.
The French Tennis Federation's move means that in the space of six months, three of the four Grand Slam tournaments have boosted their purses in the face of players' demands, with Wimbledon expected to announce this year's prize levels later this month.
So the report calls on the Europeans, slow to open their purses (America spends more on co-operative threat-reduction in a year than Europeans have over the past ten, points out one impatient American official), to pay for the work at Russia's civilian nuclear sites, leaving America free to hurry up work at trickier military ones.
The question then is: what makes this Lumia sleek enough for the fashion crowd (and their tiny purses and skinny jeans)?
Yes the leaders of powerful countries such as the United States, or many of the European countries do have an influence on many of us Africans by virtue of their big purses and the aid they grant us.
Pretty much anything consumers place in their wallets or purses can now be easily digitized by taking a photo of it using their Smartphone.
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People prefer the convenience of light paper dollar bills to having their pockets and purses weighted down with clunky dollar slugs.
Even those Americans who pay little or no federal income tax feel that the tax collector, through a myriad of other exactions, has too big a hand in their wallets and purses.
The Swirl study found that while 53% of women have between one and five shopping apps on their smartphones, 76% of the 1, 000 women they surveyed said they prefer shop for clothes and shoes in a retail store, with their smartphones relegated to their pockets and purses.
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Some people never look away, completely immersed in whatever is happening in the palm of their hands, while others get stuck in a loop of pulling phones from pockets or purses and popping on the screens for just a moment before putting them away again for just a minute or two.
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