Word: pocketing
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...substance: if the content is right, it does not matter whether there is one anchor or six." Yet when the shows are so similar, perhaps all that the networks have to sell is Brokaw's lopsided grin, Rather's riveting eyes, or Jennings' meticulously folded breast-pocket handkerchief...
...International University. Last April, Sarmiento became the first Marielito to earn an FLU. engineering degree. When he is not out looking for work, like any new graduate, he fiddles with programs on his home computer. "To think," marvels Sarmiento, "back in Cuba I didn't own even a pocket calculator...
...long tanker in half, spraying burning oil for hundreds of yards in a vast arc around the wreckage. Caught in the curtain of fire that rose from the growing oil slick, the aft section, containing about 100,000 tons of crude, quickly sank. Supported by a pocket of air, the bow section remained afloat vertically, like a six-story-high buoy, with an estimated 40,000 tons of oil still trapped in its tanks...
...folksy sort of test, carried out with such implements as a pocket flash light, an orange rubber ball, a paper clip, some popcorn kernels. The exam starts when the baby is asleep, and it gauges the infant's reactions to a series of stimuli, including light in the eyes, the sound of rattling, a scratch on the foot: 20 reflexes and 26 behavioral responses in all. After 20 minutes or so, a Brazeltonized baby is wide awake and none too happy about all the testing...
...Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, a private group, seemed well under way toward bringing off an audacious pledge: the L.A.O.O.C. merely plans to host a record 12,000 athletes and present 17 new events for a minuscule $475 million, not a penny of it from any taxpayer's pocket. In fact, these unbuttoned optimists expect to have a $9 million surplus...