Word: pocketable
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Sometimes something comes pretty quickly. In the first contest I won, [the image] showed a panhandling dolphin, a guy reaching into his back pocket to give him some money, and a woman yelling something at him. I just tried to think about stereotypical things people think about dolphins and panhandlers. Dolphins are intelligent. And one of the most common and nastiest things people say about panhandlers is that they should get a job. And I thought of the caption (registration required). That didn't go over well with my colleagues, because I'm a poverty lawyer...
...exceed $30 million. Picard's fees, they say, will likely be less than that, though it's impossible to know precisely how much less. So far, Picard has collected $1.2 billion in recovered funds, so even if his fee were half the normal bankruptcy trustee fee he would still pocket $15 million...
...Picard still stands to put a pretty penny in his pocket. SIPA trustees like Picard and their staffs get hourly fees and expenses paid for, as well as discretionary amounts based on a number of factors...
...while refined Brits hate to talk about money, Harry's secretary announced that the Queen will cover the estimated $40,000 trip out of her own pocket rather than dumping it on the taxpayer. "As it's not a full-fat royal trip," Lowther-Pinkerton said, "the Queen has very graciously offered to foot the bill, which is very kind of her." It's also a good p.r. move. In recent weeks Britain's Parliament has been engulfed in scandal after a national newspaper revealed that scores of parliamentarians used taxpayer money to cover personal expenses - including...
...outline a fairly dramatic story about how you started CBN with just $70 in your pocket. I'm sure people now would like to know how you lived on $70 at that time. When we started, there was no money available for us. I bought a bag of soybeans - 70 pounds for two dollars - and we literally lived on soybeans. We just didn't have any money to spend. Everything was devoted to getting the Christian Broadcasting Network underway. My first year, total income was $8,000 for the whole enterprise. Second year...