Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote Republican. But the fact is that while 38% of 30- to 40- year-olds told the TIME Yankelovich poll that they are Democrats and 24% said they are Republicans, 38% called themselves independents. "The Baby Boomer vote is never going to be in either party's hip pocket," says Republican Political Consultant Lee Atwater. Their political views tend to be a mix: they are conservative on economic matters and distrustful of Big Government. Yet they are liberal on social issues like women's rights and abortion, and wary of the moral preachments of the New Right...
...till for his salary. Just before one of the last remaining U.S. journalists, Associated Press Correspondent Ed Blanche, finally left the war-torn city last month, he stopped off at the bar. A well-known gunman, slightly wobbly from drink, approached Blanche, tucked an object into his pocket, then burst out laughing. "I failed to see the funny side of it," Blanche reported afterward. "The present was a fragmentation grenade." The gunman, a veteran killer who seemed to be losing his nerve after years of firefights in the shattered city, took back the grenade and proceeded to place it between...
While the others were pulling out, in fact, the owner fished a fresh chaw of Red Man from his pocket, got in the big new Chrysler with the tobacco juice cup affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths...
...voice that says, "Hello. May I help you?" belongs to one of 33 inmates who handle up to 6,500 calls a day. The department's regular entry-level employees receive between $8.04 and $9.93 an hour. The Bayview volunteers, many of whom work a full 37 1/2-hour week, pocket 32 cents to 65 cents an hour, the going rate for prison work in the state...
...those walking potential victims of cancer," Michael Lambert, who said he lives 1200 feet from the plant, told the court. Lambert then produced four test tubes of acid soot from his jacket pocket as an illustration of the potential threat from the power plant...