Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think both of 'em can make it," McCurdy proffered. "The thing you have to remember about them is that they're good. Reed's a proud kid, and I think he's sick and tired of losing to people he knows he can have in his hip pocket...
Volunteering is not self-sacrifice, it is doing work for the love of it, or because you badly want to see the job done. For those two motives I will do any job unpaid, if the paycheck for another job is already in my pocket...
...produce a class of Renaissance men and women. Moreover, certain other courses sprang up that appeared designed to accomodate the needs of specific clienteles: the Natural Science coruse, for instance, that would approach scientific issues from a philosophical or political perspective, or the Humanities course custom-built for the pocket-calculator, pre-med set. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman of the special Task Force that reported on the Gen Ed system two years ago said then that "We have never really abandoned the principle of General Education. But the present General Education guidelines are ineffective...
...only 40% of the advance; Puzo gets the rest. Most authors settle for a 50-50 arrangement. The novelist expects to take his $1.5 million share in chunks spread over five years. With 10% going to his agent and approximately half of the rest for taxes, he should eventually pocket at least $500,000 from the record $2,550,000 auction...
...watchful godfather of The Godfather never missed a shuffle of the paperback poker game: "While I was playing tennis it was up to 1.6, something like that. Then after dinner it was 1.8. It was Ballantine, N.A.L., and up to 1.5 Bantam was in it. The last three were Pocket Books, Ballantine, N.A.L. Then at 9 o'clock I got a phone call. Ballantine and N.A.L. were up to 2.4. Then I got a final call saying that Ballantine and N.A.L. were at 2.5 and 2.55, and if it was O.K. with me, we'd take it. They...