Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mildews if you bury it." Which may explain why Colombians have been reported buying up jewels -- principally diamonds -- in Antwerp, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. U.S. agents don't think these buyers are Christmas shopping. "You can transport millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in your back pocket," says an investigator. Furthermore, diamonds don't rot when stored in the underground caches favored by Colombian dons...
...even if $21 oil, as opposed to $10 oil, today would save us from $50 oil in a few years, why pay that extra $11 to oil producers? Why not buy the oil for $10, slap on an $11 tax and pocket the difference ourselves? That would raise about $40 billion a year -- just about enough to cancel the budget summit. (Last month's crisis. Remember?) A tax on imports alone would raise half that, allowing domestic producers to keep the difference. Yet the policy of two Republican administrations -- read their lips -- has been that it is better...
...does not face an immediate cash shortage, he is intent on proceeding with some $40 billion worth of self-memorializing development projects that he has been unable to finance. Among them: the Baghdad metro, 2,000 miles of railway and two gigantic hydroelectric dams. Now Saddam can not only pocket the profits of Kuwait's oil wells but also manipulate their production levels to ensure a high price...
...grows to like her--Stevie, a mobster who has a gun of his own in his jacket pocket. Sheedy grins and purrs her way through this awkward romance with her usual winning...
...shirts read "Mandela: American Tour." The crowd held up colorful flags as if they were pocket lighters, urging on an encore. And the event even had a corporate sponsor...