Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said goodbye to my newly made friends still in line, and I cut out the side door. Stuffing the tickets into my pocket, I let out a whoop...
...That's right! That's why they'll never look there. We hand out crack with welfare payments. Hell, instead of welfare! Pocket the checks. The President doesn't have to know. We'll make millions! It's a gold mine. Are you on board...
...smiled. "Of course. Usually when confronted by an enemy the United States has bought a lot of weapons for itself. Now it has come up with a new idea: let the enemy buy the weapons. That way we get to pocket the money, and they get stuck with the substandard product instead...
Outraged environmentalists and politicians of both parties charged that the President had deliberately held his pocket veto until after last week's elections, since Congress would not be in session to override him. Sponsors in the Senate and the House vowed to introduce the legislation in the new Congress. "If he was dissatisfied with the cost," said Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont, a co-sponsor, "then he should just wait to see what the Democratic Congress comes up with next year...
...hostages were arranged by a tiny group of NSC staffers led by Oliver North and known as the "cowboys." Says a Government source who was ) clued in on their operations very late: "This thing was run out of the West Wing (of the White House). It was a vest-pocket, high-risk business." Whether the motive for the arms-shipments policy was to gain U.S. influence in Iran's power struggles or to win freedom for hostages in Lebanon, officials could hope for success. Last month Mehdi Hashemi, a hard-line Iranian official, was arrested in Tehran and charged...