Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boost communication, Honda has done away with executive lunch rooms and private offices. At Marysville, for example, egalitarianism prevails: all Honda employees, right up to Shoichiro Irimajiri, president of Honda's American manufacturing division, wear white coveralls with their names stitched in red lettering above the right breast pocket...
...prison can be hard on a man, and when Gotti finally appeared last week in Brooklyn Federal Court, the "Dapper Don" of the tabloids showed signs of fashion fatigue. No tie. No tan. His graying hair no longer meticulously styled. Only a starched white pocket handkerchief, practically a Gotti trademark, hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom...
...Tobacco Institute attacked the report, saying it was "purely political." But Continental Airlines used the federal report to launch its own no-smoking program, announcing that smokers who agree to keep their pack in their pocket would qualify for a 10% discount on their next flight. The 30- day experimental program was to begin...
...likely to be drawn into skirmishes with Sandinista soldiers, who have been crossing into Costa Rica and Honduras in pursuit of contras. But Dole, speaking for the aid measure, warned, " The game is over, and now it's time to act. The Sandinistas are already firmly in Moscow's pocket...
...surrender every weekend, but when he is played by Ken Siegel, he does so in the highest style. Siegel, 42, a management consultant from Needham, Mass., wears high silk stockings, brown-top riding boots, leather-lined, white wool breeches closed with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a gold pocket watch, a crimson sash, a general's coat in scarlet wool with blue lapels and velvet cuffs studded with 20 14-karat buttons, a white wig and cocked bicorne hat, and a $15,000 18th century sword, inlaid with gold. "I come off as a totally arrogant, pompous...