Word: pocketing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...invents a MacGuffin, the term Alfred Hitchcock used to describe anything that gives spurious meaning to a plot, or, as Bobbo explains, "whatever got slipped into Cary Grant's pocket without his knowledge or that Jimmy Stewart picked up by mistake when the girl switched briefcases on him." The MacGuffin that Bobbo comes up with is a conspiracy to get rid of him that involves everyone from his bosses to his son's deceased Lebanese girlfriend to his limousine drivers...
...clocked King's 1988 Hyundai going 115 m.p.h. on the Foothill Freeway, although the audio transcript of their initial radio reports does not mention excessive speed. The manufacturer later stated that the car could not exceed 100 m.p.h. The police said they subdued King because he reached into his pocket as he emerged from the car, a movement they felt was menacing. Yet the videotape shows the man lying helpless on the ground as the officers repeatedly beat and kicked him. One eyewitness said that she heard King begging the policemen to stop and that they "were all laughing, like...
...looking at a situation where people are getting rich," says former M.I.T. Provost John Deutch. "This is not like Michael Milken." Despite an overhead ^ rate of 77%, for example, Harvard Medical School in 1989 still had to finance 17% of research-related indirect costs out of its own pocket. The rate has since soared to 88%, and Harvard Medical is now asking government negotiators to agree to an even more mind-boggling figure...
Like about 80 percent of his Choate classmates, Ayers says, he was a legacy. With that attribute, and the Choate diploma in his pocket, admission to Harvard was no sweat...
...federal regulators. While large sums changed hands, the report pointed out, no one was personally enriched by Keating's largesse. Nonetheless the committee seemed to overlook the fact that, among those who lust for power, money in the campaign treasury is a much bigger carrot than money in the pocket...