Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George Bush had a delightful visit to Munich and Helsinki -- sumptuous three- wine dinners, an evening at the ballet, VIP tours of castles. But like other tourists, he also had his pocket picked. Bush had repeatedly vowed that at the Group of Seven summit of leading industrial democracies he would fight to batter down barriers to U.S. exports and thus create more jobs for Americans. Instead, the other six (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan) shifted the focus away from trade and toward the civil war in what used to be Yugoslavia...
...looking, thirtyish women friends and the men who do them wrong, wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch, a home truth for gender warriors of all colors, is that buppies are just as baffled by their disconnected lives as are their tight white cousins...
...will deploy 30 operatives across the country. Each coordinator will be charged with setting up offices in three or four states and zeroing in on voters within each congressional district. Most of the $4 million raised by the campaign so far ($3.2 million of it from Perot's pocket) has been spent on establishing this structure. Under orders from Dallas, volunteers seeking donations and handing out campaign buttons are strictly prohibited from accepting anything larger than $5, Perot's stated limit for personal contributions. There is a fear that a "supporter" who hands over a $10 bill and says "Keep...
...cast FAME'S PERIL (pocket Books; $19). Harrison Ford could play ace reporter Jack Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil...
...airplanes. But their old-fashioned analog circuitry, vulnerable to interference, made many calls sound as if they came from Mars. Moreover, plane phones were usually scarce, located either fore or aft or shared, one to a three-seat complex, leaving travelers a reasonable excuse for staying blissfully out of pocket...