Word: pocketing
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...paid out of my own pocket 4 million euros [$6.3 million], and then the next day, my whole leadership team followed, and they bought out of their own pocket. We have to really demonstrate to the organization the confidence that we have in the future of the company. In the U.S., it is nothing [special]. For a Germany-based, European-based company, it was quite unusual...
...Last week details were published on the Internet of a secret report by the Parliament's own internal auditors that revealed a catalogue of scams used by some MEPs to pocket portions of their annual grant of $295,000 per member to hire office staff...
...Several weeks later the soldiers were asked to make a financial donation to the family. Several thousand dollars were raised and given to the family. Ben says he gave $33. "That's all I had in my pocket," he says. "I wasn't too happy about it. I didn't feel that it was the right way to handle it." Some of the other soldiers agreed. "It made us look like we were liable or trying to cover it up or something," says...
...puck squirts into the Harvard zone, and Donato hops up on the bench to get a better look. He takes some notes during the television timeout, then says a word to his players as he tucks the papers back into his coat pocket...
...fill up an entire jump drive. Don’t make that face you always make! I’m not complaining—I’m just saying. I miss the days when I could fold you up and put you in my pocket...