Word: pocketable
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...people at banks and brokerages. Putting restrictions on CEOs and top management compensation was expected to be a part of any plan to control the actions of companies which have received or will receive government funds to stay solvent. But, the new rules are set up to hit the pocket books of some of the financial firms' employees who bring their employers huges amounts of profit. ( See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...much I used to. It's really a question of time. But when I've got people like [Steven S.] DeKnight, and Tim Minear and David Solomon in my pocket, it makes it a lot less painful. (pauses) They're not actually in my pocket...
...would have to be a big pocket...
...million more just like him, in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and lower Manhattan, are panting to take his place. They all know that, these days, banks don't even have to steal to increase their wealth. They take a congressional slap on the wrist, then pocket trillions from the Treasury...
...attend five key annual preventive-health checkups, including an eye exam and a foot exam. Within eight months of the program's launch in 2008, about half of Amica's diabetic employees were enrolled. It was a win-win situation: members had saved nearly $35,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, and Amica's health-care costs on compliant members dropped 50% within a year. Best of all, unlike the nonparticipants, not one of the compliant members had landed in the hospital...