Word: pocketing
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...Harvard Crimson has learned of one play that Coach Filling will be keeping in his back pocket for a critical juncture of the game...
...fact, the FDIC has consistently covered all depositors in large bank failures to prevent runs. "The government can get away with relatively small- scale pocket picking," says Bert Ely, a financial consultant based in Alexandria, Va. "But on a major scale you cannot do it. The consequences are just too significant...
Jamil Roubayee, a 32-year-old doctor, glances around the emergency room and tugs nervously at the stethoscope in the pocket of his white coat. On one side of the ward lie four elderly men who were rushed to Baghdad's biggest hospital, the 12-story, powder blue Saddam Hussein Medical Center, after suffering heart attacks. On the other side are two ailing women as well as a little boy afflicted with sickle-cell anemia. Because of the international blockade against Iraq, Roubayee says, the hospital lacks antibiotics and other medicines necessary to treat the patients. At least...
...claimed a two-game sweep over his alma mater for the first time in his six-year coaching tenure. "This by no means does anything but give us one-up on everybody else. Until somebody proves they can win up here in this environment, we have one in our pocket...
Most of the time I simply put the books in the small pocket of my backpack. To add a little pizazz, I put them right on top of the main pocket a couple of times. Beginning to think that I was charmed with luck, I even had a friend...