Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year Morris, 36, whose won-lost record for the past four seasons is 54-57, rented his right arm to the Toronto Blue Jays; the two-year deal is worth $10.85 million. That's about $1,500 a pitch, for those of you who couldn't afford a pocket calculator this Christmas. (But these are still middle-income entertainers. TV's Bill Cosby earned $60 million...
...came last week in Geneva, where Saccoccia, 35, was arrested with his wife (and reputed confederate) Donna, carrying $500,000 in cash. Yet that is mere pocket change for precious-metals traders, whose enormous cash transactions make them ideal fronts for laundering. "A precious-metals dealer may buy and sell hundreds of millions of dollars of gold in a year in numerous transactions, show a minimal profit, produce limited business records that appear legitimate and not raise suspicion," explains Dennis Fortune, a money- laundering expert and 24-year IRS veteran...
Those two players, Duke's center Christian Laettner and point guard Bobby Hurley, saw limited action. Laettner played just 15 minutes, but still managed to pocket 10 points. Hurley played 23 minutes, and eked out 13 points...
When it dawned on MacArthur that he too was being abandoned, he spoke grandly of his destiny. "They will never take me alive," he said as he slipped a loaded pistol into his pocket. But MacArthur was just a pawn on an enormous political chessboard. Australia, threatened by the Japanese advances, demanded the return of three divisions sent to help Britain fight Germany. But the Australians said they would not insist if the U.S. promised troops and appointed an American supreme commander for the whole South Pacific. Churchill, unwilling to withdraw the Australians then battling Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps...
...boycotted owner's business going during the protest. "We don't make trouble first," says Do Hyun Chung, who owns a liquor store in Compton. "We try to make money first." The 31-year-old merchant came to America nearly seven years ago with scarcely a penny in his pocket, in the hope of finding what he refers to, without irony or embarrassment, as "the American Dream." The previous owner of his store was shot dead by a robber. For Chung and his wife Sue Hee, it is a constant struggle to maintain peace with their customers. Every morning they...