Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed no longer interesting after a while. Beijing University, which once looked so much like a battle field where China's future was to be decided, today is just an ordinary school you would expect to find anywhere in China, with its students busy hunting secondary jobs for more pocket money...
Overall, the acting of the women was excellent. Deborah Brightman as Winnie, the matronly know-it-all, was superb. Teresa Hegji was excellent as the bitchy, uncontrollable Nance. Pamela Hart played Charlotte, a sexy professional pick-pocket, with aplomb. Jada Robert's Pitty, on the other hand, was a little too crazy, even though her character was insane. Of the men (all of whom are extremely good-looking), only Jay Boyer, who played the 16 year-old deck hand Tommy, stood out. His transformation from a shy innocent to a more mature, jaded sailor was convincing. Steve Harper's Sarge...
...outsider, not quite sure whether to be excited or exasperated by the science-fictive surfaces of that alien world. The second is that they find a focus for their mingled fascination and frustration in an unfathomable Japanese love object. The gracious and redeeming delight of Audrey Hepburn's Neck (Pocket Books; 290 pages; $21), a first novel by Alan Brown, an American, is that it turns all the standard tropes--and expectations--on their head by presenting Japan from the inside out, and yet with a sympathetic freshness that most longtime expatriates have long ago abandoned...
ANGRY INVESTORS CLOSED OUT THE Decade of Greed with demands that executive compensation be tied to company performance. In other words, CEOs should pocket a bundle only if their companies make a bundle. And make a bundle they did. By laying off employees, merging and acquiring at a record pace, slicing employee health-care costs and scoring strong sales, U.S. companies enjoyed record profits...
...math and there shouldn't be a problem, right? If, in a multicandidate field, Dole has 50,000 votes in his pocket and the eventual turnout is no more than about 160,000, why worry? For two reasons. First, independents can vote Republican in New Hampshire and could account for 20% of the total. Forbes, everyone agrees, would win most of those ballots. Dole's other problem is intensity. So far, there isn't any. It's great to have 50,000 names on paper, but if those folks don't vote, so what? "Energizing people is hard," says state...