No other country has so many newly pecunious consumers clamouring for stuff.

"Hello agent John, it's client Dan," commented the pecunious scribbler.

The theory was "predatory buying": a purchaser buys so much of a given raw material that it drives up the price and thereby excludes less pecunious rivals who depend on the same raw material.

Far from it. This place has alreadysurpassed our college days in my mind. I am richly rewarded here, the lifeof a young schoolmaster may not be particularly pecunious, quite thecontrary, but there are other ledgers against which one must make account.

"The ruling is a rebuke of the city's and state's pecunious attitude toward the homeless," said Douglas Lasdon, head of the Legal Action Center for the Homeless, the nonprofit organization that sued the state on behalf of Mr. Hill.

Other triumphs included his use of his excellent rapport with the School Council to persuade them to increase scholarships for gifted but less pecunious boys, increase the numbers of teachers to support a wider curriculum, and approve a new complex of science buildings in March 1956.