Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most controversial young corporations in the country, has long searched for a whole district that would put its methods to the test. Under the five-year contract, which starts immediately, E.A.I. will pay the bills, buy supplies, fix buildings, shape curriculum, train teachers and, when it's all over, pocket half of every dollar, if any, it saves the city of Hartford. The company said it would immediately pump $1.6 million into fixing the most ramshackle buildings, and another $14 million into new technology. The board remains in final control, and can cancel the contract on 90 days' notice...
Military officials on the Pentagon's Joint staff in Washington thought that some pilots shot down over Laos were being held captive and could be at the camp. Two months after receiving W/1's report, the Pentagon began preparing Operation Pocket Change, a top-secret plan to retrieve the airmen. It was the only postwar rescue the U.S. government ever considered in Southeast Asia. The leads that Americans might be at the camp "were the best we ever got," says retired Vice Admiral Jerry Tuttle, the man in charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency's hunt for POWS...
...Progressive taxation is important to pursue . . .the idea for each of us to give a share for the common good," says former Cambridge mayor Alice K. Wolf. "Ninety-two percent of Massachusetts will benefit from the point of view of their own pocket-books...
...Dude" had a devious sense of humor. In 1948, when the councillors were struggling to elect a mayor, Sullivan created a moment of levity by placing an egg in fellow councillor Hyman Pill's pocket, hoping that it would break when Pill sat down. The egg story made the pages of Life magazine...
...Pocket schedules or none, weather has yet to make the shuttle a necessity for some students, despite the off-and-on rain since Friday...