Word: pocketing
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...weeks Tudjman's generals had been massing troops around Krajina, threatening to retake the breakaway province unless the Serbs agreed to rejoin Croatia. Then three weeks ago the Bosnian Serbs began attacking Bihac, a pocket bordering Krajina and controlled by the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. The Croats helped the Bosnian Muslims and took two towns in Bosnia controlled by the Serbs. Following that action, the Croats seemed to gear up for a full-scale offensive. There was a brief moment of hope when the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, announced concessions by the Serbs. The U.S. had been trying...
After Zepa fell, Mladic increased his merciless pressure on Bihac, an isolated U.N. safe area in the northwest. Coordinating efforts with Serb rebels from neighboring Croatia and antigovernment Muslim irregulars, he attacked the so-called Bihac pocket, a cluster of towns and villages that shelters more than 160,000 people, mostly Muslims. He and his allies, totaling about 25,000 men, rolled up a third of the pocket and drew to within two or three miles of the main U.N. camp at Coralici, where 1,300 poorly armed Bangladeshi peacekeepers are holed...
When the professor returned roughly one hour later, he found that his wallet had been moved from his right rear pocket to his left rear pocket...
Under the old package, the out-of-pocket costsper doctor visits varied with the health planemployees chose ranging between nothing...
...Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...