Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't get enough." After she was hooked, though, the problem was getting enough money. Until this season she had to scratch as much as $4,000 together each year for equipment and travel. "One night I slept in a closet. I only had $20 in my pocket," she says. Warner will probably not have a medal either. Maybe by 1988, the 21-year-old hopes...
...there were rumblings from Mayor Edward Koch's office suggesting that it was not just Ross who had been soaked. The dark cloud hanging over the affair turned out to have a silver lining last week when Ross presented Koch with a $250,000 check from her own pocket. "It's for the kids," said the singer, who donned an orange city-department-of-parks slicker to show that there were no hard feelings. Said Parks Commissioner Henry Stern: "For $250,000 you can get a small but exquisite playground." There was a time when it would...
...White House requests $175 million in military aid, well above the $64.8 million Congress approved last year, there will be stiff opposition when the Senate and House of Representatives reconvene on Jan. 23. Congressional critics of U.S. policy in El Salvador were angered when the President used a pocket veto during the holiday recess to block a bill extending the requirement that the U.S. certify El Salvador's progress in human rights and political reform before granting further aid. Last week 33 House Democrats filed suit in federal court charging that the President had acted unconstitutionally. The certification...
...touches of capitalism have crept back into the state-controlled Cuban economy. After fulfilling state quotas, peasant farmers and artisans are now permitted to sell their surplus goods at free-market prices. As a result of the mild free-enterprise revival, some Cubans have more pocket money to spend these days, and the government allows personal savings accounts of up to $2,000 to earn 2% interest. Higher returns are forbidden, says a Cuban banker, because "we don't want people living off their interest...
...from the office, he denied to Safire and Perlez that he had ever taped without the consent of the caller, and then later conceded that he sometimes forgot to get that consent. The worst example of his failing memory seems to have been the day he allegedly took a pocket tape recorder to Florida and taped a phone call to Chief of Staff James Baker III without telling him. Baker wasn't the only one to find that taping incident "unethical"; the district attorney of Palm Beach, where such taping may well be a felony, presently has the event under...