Sales may have fallen off for no other reason than consumers spending less discretionary money.

"I told him that it was discretionary money for community-based organizations, but he didn't want it."

They probably have more discretionary money and fewer advertising outlets.

Perhaps they don't have discretionary money to buy tickets.

Mr. Rubin said that these youngsters have more discretionary money to spend.

Slightly more than half of the discretionary money went for defense.

But the amount of discretionary money available to a superintendent or to the chancellor is not that much.

They usually get but a few crumbs of the discretionary money controlled by the leaders of each house.

But then teenagers today have more discretionary money than those of past generations, analysts said.

The project is funded with discretionary money in the lab's budget and done mostly outside the researchers' normal work.