Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Western governments dawdle over assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Soros, 62, delivers -- perhaps as much as $300 million to date. From his pocket. No strings attached. Since 1984 the financier has provided everything from transmitters for independent radio stations in the former Yugoslavia to scholarships in the West for Eastern academics. Through his New York City-based Soros Foundation, he has funded struggling Czech artists as well as education projects in Albania and Ukraine. His philanthropy has made Soros "the most important single force affecting developments in the region," says Steve Larrabee, a specialist...
...seen those bright-eyed representatives from the Gideon Bible company standing inside the Yard gates and handing out pocket-sized scriptures. Some of us may have dismissed the whole evangelical enterprise as a nuisance or an embarrassing anachronism, while others may have admired the distributors' optimistic zeal...
...There is no sense of progression or goal here. Similarly, during the two disjointed Indian dances, all onstage action freezes inexplicably. A rush-hour scene in New York City, however, is choreographed with ingenious commotion, presenting a smorgasbord of traffic, cops, spills, swinging ladders, lost people and a stolen pocket-watch, served up to the show's only instrumental number, a classic, light-hearted...
...Mikhail Gorbachev and seized control of the Soviet Union? After the scheme fell apart, one conspirator drank himself into a stupor, another shot himself dead, and a third made a break for the airport -- where he was arrested with the key to his new Kremlin office still in his pocket...
...sense of the convolution, follow a dollar bill as it winds its way through the health care system. As the system currently stands, companies usually pay most of their employees' health care costs. Beginning in the employer's pocket, the health care dollar moves on to one of dozens of private insurance companies. If the employee visits the hospital to receive treatment for an illness, the hospital forwards the charges to the insurance company--which pays all costs above the deductible and transfers the rest of the cost back to the patient. The hospital then pays the physicians and nurses...