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Out of pocket expenses.


When GE Consumer Credit asked 471 salarymen in Japan's two largest urban areas if they had received a raise the previous spring, only 43.7 percent of the respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy.  in Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay.  replied in the positive. In Osaka Osaka (ō`säkä), city (1990 pop. 2,623,801), capital of Osaka prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay, at the mouth of the Yodo River. , the figure was 58.5 percent. This may explain why Osaka white collar workers' average outlay for lunch was [yen] 730, compared to a tightfisted tight·fist·ed  
adj.
Close-fisted; stingy.



tightfisted·ness n.
 [yen] 680 for Tokyo. While the monthly average kozukai (pocket money) among bachelors was [yen] 66,900, for married men, the figure was a low, low [yen] 48,600.
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Title Annotation:raises, cost of lunch
Publication:Japan Inc.
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:9JAPA
Date:Nov 1, 2002
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