Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope was always an illusion. After the Siamese-twin government replaced the Vietnamese-installed regime, the chaotic and corrupt new administration accomplished almost nothing except to set up Ranariddh and Hun Sen as competing warlords. The situation became increasingly unstable when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the other pocket of Cambodian power for 19 years, started to fall apart last year in its hidden jungle exile. First Prime Minister Ranariddh, son of venerable King Sihanouk, started negotiations with the disintegrating guerrilla group, offering jobs in his army, which was far smaller than Second Prime Minister Hun Sen's. Those negotiations...
...struck the match often enough. In May 1996 police forcibly subdued him when he was ranting "Fight the power!" in a busy intersection in Sherman Oaks, Calif.; a loaded gun was in his pocket. Last August he was arrested at Burbank Airport for carrying a loaded revolver. This January Tisha Campbell, his Martin co-star, filed a suit alleging sexual harassment and refused to appear in intimate scenes with him. In March he was arrested after a man said the star punched him inside a Hollywood nightery. Now Lawrence is fighting his ex-wife's challenge to their prenuptial agreement...
...costs thousands of dollars a year to keep a person in jail. Those who advocate life imprisonment should pay for it out of their own pocket. I would rather spend my tax dollars on something productive for society, such as a new hospital wing, better roads or books for my kid's school. If I want a roof over my head, I have to come up with the money for it. Why should I have to pay for a murderer's amenities for life? TOM BRADFORD McCall, Idaho...
...there are about the Kennedys (266), who probably represent the gold standard when it comes to unwarranted public interest in a subject. Not surprisingly, many more Roswell books will be hitting the shelves just in time to capitalize on the Incident's anniversary. The most notorious is Pocket Books' The Day After Roswell, the volume that features a foreword by Strom Thurmond that the Senator disavowed two weeks ago when he learned what the book was actually about. Written by Philip J. Corso, a retired Army-intelligence officer and former member of Thurmond's staff, The Day After Roswell numbers...
Campaign 55, which started in April, has a seemingly simple premise: Customers can buy a Big Mac or other designated sandwich for 55[cents] if they also buy any size beverage and fries. "My Size" meal is the tag line. Patrons, the theory goes, love the cheap burgers. Owners pocket profits on the soda and fries. The plan proved less than simple, particularly when details appeared in the Wall Street Journal before franchisees approved it. Fears of an all-out industry price war sent the stock spinning, and some franchisees, already struggling against rising wages, worried openly about the cost...