Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last month, Princeton, Stanford and Yale Universities have announced huge increases in financial aid, making a pitch for the pocket-books of America's top high school students...
...clearly datesfrom an era long past. In the foreground, thepainting crudely depicts a scene from "TheHustler," with vaguely recognizable likenesses ofJackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats and Paul Newman'sEddie Felsin. At the middle table in the painting,three ruddy-faced Irish fellows contemplatesinking the eight-ball in the corner pocket. Themural distinguishes the setting as undeniablySully':, jammed with more spectators than players,in the background, about 30 onlookers take in theaction, a sort of potpourri of capablestick-handlers and nuclear families. On the rightside of the mural, at a lone table far away fromthe main event, two black men shoot...
Patricia A. Clahar '98 agreed. "I have a couple of jobs, actually, but [the pay from psychology experiments] is pocket cash," she said...
Saunders says he provides the funds for theteam from his own pocket, and other members laterreimburse him. He adds that sometimes studentsquit the team after attending the competition andincurring expenses but before paying their dues...
Things are really nasty in Pleasantville these days. The Reader's Digest Association, best known for its pocket-size magazine, is in a state of protracted turmoil. The sputtering 76-year-old publisher founded to "inform, enrich, entertain and inspire people" has lately just incited a group of big-game-hunting shareholders, who want to see the Digest company restructured or sold. "This is a company that has been asleep," says Nell Minow, a principal of Lens, an activist Washington-based money manager with a substantial stake in the firm. "We are trying to bring them into the 20th century...