Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yohe's excellent 15-for-32, three TD performance was accompanied by the junior quarterback's usual array of scrambles, roll-outs and throws on the run. None of Yohe's five touchdown passes this year have been thrown out of the pocket...
...more important was his obvious poise. On both of Yohe's TD tosses, the quarterback scrambled out of the pocket and was on the run--and being chased by a number of Columbia defenders--when he launched his scoring strike...
...consumer groups. Opponents point out that he has rarely ruled this way against business plaintiffs. In one widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that courts should "renounce outright the whole notion of congressional standing...
...obligation bonds. The second radically restricts the ability of governments to increase their revenues by reinvesting funds raised from bonds. Previously, in a process known as arbitrage, state or city governments could issue bonds at a given interest rate, reinvest the proceeds at a higher rate of return and pocket the difference. Under the new law, state and local governments would have to turn most of those profits over to the federal treasury...
...patrimony. He has selected five issues that he believes can excite the electorate. It took the methodical du Pont two years to research and hone his message, and he has now compressed it neatly onto a single 3-in. by 5-in. card that he keeps in his breast pocket. Dispensing with the usual homilies about preserving the family farm, du Pont brashly advocates abolishing farm subsidies within five years. Worried about the cost of the baby boom's retirement, he proposes a private alternative to Social Security modeled after IRA accounts. To make public schools more competitive, he wants...