Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fahmawi '99 says, "I have found it to be a great asset to my social capital." Does everyone have phones just to keep social lives swinging? Or is it just that the Tamagotchi, "the original virtual reality pet," is passe, and now people are lining up for more pocket-sized...
...fear that no one will call once I become incredibly accessible. Now I can spend the whole day assuming my machine is bursting with messages and I don't have to be crushed until I arrive home. But if my little phone were lying limp and dead in my pocket, not vibrating, I would have constant reminders of being unloved. To quote the ever-wise Shaw, "The more and more accessible you become, the more you realize that no one is trying to get in touch with...
...train their workers. They sell their goods to foreign buyers that make the acquisitions with tax dollars supplied by the U.S. government; engage in foreign transactions that are insured by the government; and are excused from paying a portion of their income tax if they sell products overseas. They pocket lucrative government contracts to carry out ordinary business operations, and government grants to conduct research that will improve their profit margins. They are extended partial tax immunity if they locate in certain geographical areas, and they may write off as business expenses some of the perks enjoyed by their...
Since governments are not taxable, this arrangement enabled Intel to escape property and sales taxes. Then there is the investment-tax-credit deal, which allows Intel to pocket a portion of the state income taxes withheld from its bunny-suited tech workers' paychecks. In addition, the state provided money to train workers. These and other benefits add up to a third of a billion dollars in aid for Intel...
...kids are smarter and hipper than the boomers in their prime, why aren't they changing the world? You already know the easy answers. AIDS, harder drugs, pocket-size weapons of mass destruction, global warming, economic scarcity--the world today doesn't lend itself to simplistic oppositions or easy optimism. But beyond that, the new counterculture is basically postpolitical and tribalized. The TAZ movement eschews changing the world in favor of finding some liberated space, or even a liberated moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative...