Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waist McDonald wears an insulin pump the size of a pager, which infuses the hormone through a slender needle positioned just below his skin. Anticipating meals, McDonald can increase the amount of insulin he receives by dialing in a number. McDonald carries with him a finger pricker and a pocket-size glucose monitoring machine. Eight times a day he checks the level of glucose in his blood and adjusts his insulin pump accordingly...
...only new show that ranks in the Nielsen Top 30, America's Funniest People, is merely an appendage of an already established hit, America's Funniest Home Videos.) The three networks' combined share of the viewing audience -- more than 90% just a dozen years ago -- hit another air pocket this fall, dropping 4 percentage points from a year ago, to 66%. On Saturday nights, when TV viewership is at a low ebb, nearly half the audience is tuned in to something other than the Big Three...
Rahway is just one pocket of prison philanthropy. Across the country, inmates find ways, big and small, to escape the moral insulation of prison life. The scale of the effort varies from jail to jail: throughout Pennsylvania, prisoners sponsor statewide run-a-thons that through the years have collected nearly $89,000 for various youth programs. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, inmates sell pizza in the visiting room to raise $2,500 a year for residents of a juvenile home. At Soledad and San Quentin in California, inmates sort discarded eyeglasses to give to the poor. Female minimum-security inmates...
...turned back and handed him mine. It was a cheap, blue Bic ballpoint, the kind that comes in a package of 10 for $1.98--hardly fit to be tucked into his pocket after all the autographs had been signed. He looked at me and smiled...
...this an American auto plant, or a factory from another planet? The company president walks around in a polo shirt with a pocket logo right out of Star Trek, allows workers to call him "Skip" and describes his position as "team member." He and the union boss (who goes by "Dick") have a strange, collegial relationship. As for the rank and file, they don't punch a time clock and they get to handpick the people they work alongside. During off-hours they run around an outdoor obstacle course and engage in group hugging sessions. If they develop...