Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...check for $336,157.56 (with 20% off the top for Uncle Sam), the first of 21 annual payments. Jorich plans to use the money to buy a new Cadillac, a beach house for his wife, a college education for his granddaughter and more lottery tickets. Why? "I need pocket money...
...Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, a private group, seemed well under way toward bringing off an audacious pledge: the L.A.O.O.C. merely plans to host a record 12,000 athletes and present 17 new events for a minuscule $475 million, not a penny of it from any taxpayer's pocket. In fact, these unbuttoned optimists expect to have a $9 million surplus...
...Yanks are coming with cameras and phrase books and something new: pocket calculators, which have become essential for translating the volatile currencies of Europe into dollars. The dollar, as everyone knows, has never been lustier abroad,* and Americans are in the mood to spend. To encourage them, European Travel Commission ads across the U.S. proclaim: EUROPE! THE GRANDEST HOLIDAY OF ALL. NOW MORE AFFORDABLE THAN EVER. The Paris daily Le Figaro scolds the mother country for not wooing the American dollar more actively this summer and urges with a wiggle: "The objective in 1984 is to seduce the Americans...
Amid the welter of guides to individual countries, American Express stands out with a new series of eight pocket guides (Simon & Schuster; $7.95 each), detailed, small-print tours of cities and regions. The excellent volume on Rome includes history, sights, even ice cream shops. These minis are handy, although the profusion of tiny symbols can be confusing. Berlitz, in addition to its well-thumbed series of phrase books publishes city guides ($4.95) to sightseeing and activities, but do not look here for hotel or restaurant recommendations...
...worry about most since assuming office a little more than a year ago. Like Honduras, Costa Rica feels particularly threatened by Central America's growing militarization and ideological polarization. Monge and other Costa Rican officials must be especially careful not to appear too much in the pocket of Uncle Sam. Monge stresses what might be called the liberal critique of the Central American crisis. As he told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott last week: "For decades there has been repression of the people of Central America by oligarchs. This has created a serious dilemma...