Word: pocketed
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...head of Blackstone group and the new "King of Wall Street" (according to FORTUNE), Stephen Schwarzman is said to pay himself $300 million or more a year. He may already have accumulated as much as $10 billion, and if, as expected, Blackstone goes public, he will pocket billions more...
...take a report of suspicious activity. The officer arrived and spoke to the reporting party who stated that during an event one member of a band began arguing with another member of a band. The reporting party stated that the individual then pulled a knife out of his pocket and placed it on the stage. Another individual who observed the incident instructed the individual to put the knife away to which he complied...
...Having forgotten that it was a college dormitory he was ostensibly planning to burglarize, the man seemed surprised to find Tuan awake in the wee small hours of the morning. Dumbstruck, he asked Tuan if he could make change for a dollar. He produced a dollar bill from his pocket, for dramatic effect. And then he ran away...
...preeners who actually pretend that it does--the Goracle himself, for example. His Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the electricity used by the average American home. Last August alone it consumed twice as much power as the average home consumes in a year. Gore buys absolution, however. He spends pocket change on carbon credits, which then allow him to pollute conscience-free...
...flag in her mind. After all, I was just waiting there by the door, oblivious to the peanut butter smeared on my face from lunch and muttering to myself about the state of the Red Sox relief pitching, while eating old pretzels directly out of my coat pocket. I also was sporting a beard that, through no other reason but my own utter laziness, had grown to epic proportions...