Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of unorthodox remedies, including hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, acupuncture and herbs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a third of the population today consults alternative healers, shelling out nearly $14 billion a year for their services. Most is ^ paid out of pocket, since such treatments are rarely covered by insurance. "They could be just as good, cheaper and safer than many of the drugs and treatments we now use," asserts Jacobs, 46, "but they're still unproven...
Much the same thing happens with D-FENS, whose portrayal by Douglas is more finely tuned than Ebbe Roe Smith's script. When we meet him he is a sort of Everygeek -- flattop haircut, half horn-rims, a pocket protector fully armed with ball-points. You expect his anger to be ineffectual, especially since he starts out armed only with paranoid righteousness. But, as we all know, weaponry is easily acquired in the jungle of our cities, and by the time D- FENS nears home, he has acquired a bazooka. More important, he is no longer the nightmare's victim...
...carry him, so I just kept running," said McFarlane. "I felt pretty guilty. I was very glad he made it." When rescuers finally reached the four survivors two hours later, they found Williams' backpack, altimeter and sunglasses melted and $6,000 in traveler's checks burned in his pocket. Somehow he was alive...
...President Mobutu Sese Seko seldom misses Sunday Mass. It is a ritual he has faithfully observed during his nearly 30 years of absolute power, a tenure marked by the torture and killing of his opponents and corruption that has funneled much of his nation's wealth into his private pocket. Now 62 and in robust health, Mobutu governs from his native fiefdom of Gbadolite, a jungle village close to the equator. Surrounded at all times by heavily armed troops, he remains impervious to the growing clamor among 35 million Zairians for an end to his disastrously autocratic rule...
...peace map that mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen have drawn labels the northwest corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina "Province No. 1." The cold, hungry people who live there call it the Bihac Pocket. Surrounded by Serb- ( controlled territory, the 300,000 inhabitants -- mostly Muslims -- have survived seven months of isolation and almost nightly bombardment from Serb guns. Homes have no electricity, schools are closed, and jobless workers peddle smuggled cigarettes. Thousands in the region would have starved by now except for the sporadic arrival of humanitarian-aid shipments...