Word: pocketing
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...subcommittee chairman Fortney (Pete) Stark of California, they pushed through a plan that expands Medicare to achieve universal coverage while cutting back substantially on the White House's proposed benefits to hold down costs. Gone are such high-price items as long-term care and limits on out-of-pocket expenses for catastrophic illness. Under this plan, Medicare patients would foot 20% of their home-health-service bills, which is double what Clinton envisioned. The resulting savings of $6 billion, coupled with a cigarette-tax hike of $1.25 a pack, which would raise $16 billion in annual revenues, provides enough...
...Clintons' Whitewater investment released Friday shows payments totaling $46,636 -- the latest figure that the President gives as the sum he and his wife lost on Whitewater. (Of the $46,636 the Clintons say they lost, $41,000 was deducted and thus yielded tax benefits offsetting their out- of-pocket Whitewater investment...
...noon, a Volkswagen Golf swerved in front of his car and sprayed the windshield with bullets. Two gunmen jumped out of a second car and methodically pumped five bullets into Rajavi's head. One of the killers leaned over and tucked a navy blue baseball cap into the door pocket. It was the third time police had found a blue baseball cap at the scene of an Iranian assassination...
...community than just opera queens, that of the professionals in smarmy suits, the successful businesspeople, etc. Koestenbaum, though claiming that his book is "an elegy to the opera queen," addresses the larger question of a universal appeal of opera to gays in general. His last chapter, entitled "A Pocket Guide to Queer Moment's in Opera," is a seemingly random (and highly personal) collection of instances in well-known operas that smack of ambiguity and promise beneath the surface...
...real proof of Harvard students' attachment to Valentine's Day, whatever their cynical comments, is perhaps in the pocket book...