Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the cost-per-class figure is part of tuition and therefore covered under financial aid, textbook prices are lopped in with pocket expenses...
...country's largest trade show, with more than 200,000 people showing up this year. For a week some of the wiliest folks from the world's richest and most powerful companies drop in on a place that specializes in separating fools from their money. Every night the pocket-protector crowd flocks to the gaming tables, and you can see the pit bosses tense up. If ever there was a time to suspect that someone at, say, the roulette table had an odds-calculating supercomputer hidden in his shoe, this...
...much will Jones pocket from the deal? Certainly not the full amount, since she has had at least five sets of lawyers with possible legal bills to present. (The Rutherford Institute has run up $400,000 on her behalf.) Clinton should be able to fund the payout from his insurance and his Legal Expense Trust, which as of August held about $1 million. The settlement does not exempt him from a possible contempt citation by federal judge Susan Webber Wright for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones case. But the deal will give the President...
Selections in the handheld market have blossomed as well. Last year the obvious choice for a fully functional pocket-size organizer was 3Com's PalmPilot. While this year's upgrade, the Palm III, is still going strong, buyers can now find comparable units from Casio, Everex and Philips that run Windows CE. The competition has brought great new features like wireless data transfer on the Palm III and a voice-memo feature on Casio's Cassiopeia. The research firm IDC predicts that by 2002, U.S. handheld sales will triple to 6.9 million units--about the same number of notebooks sold...
...Bajarin of Creative Strategies. He expects this category to account for 20% of all notebook sales over the next few years. The new "Jupiter class" notebooks that run on the Windows CE operating system are just as svelte but cost a mere $1,000. They can run only limited "pocket" versions of Windows applications, but their long, 10-to-12-hr. battery life and low cost make them a good fit for lots of mobile workers...