Word: pocketing
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Bill decided that the simplest and safest way to keep more of his earnings was to pocket most of the money made from the coin-operated pool and football tables that stand alongside his bar. They provide him about $8,000 a year, free and clear. Bill's self-serving rationale: "I risked everything I had to start this business, and now that the gamble has paid off, the government is benefiting almost as much as I do-so that it can give money to welfare people, or to foreign governments that have no intention of paying it back...
...prices that Medicare will pay hospitals. Under the proposed "prospective payment" system, the Government would pay hospitals set fees for 467 "diagnosis-related groups" of illnesses, based on the average cost nationally for the procedures plus a labor differential. If a hospital spent less than the amount, it could pocket the difference; if more, it would bear the overrun. Hospitals are now reimbursed for all "reasonable" charges associated with a Medicare patient. The projected savings: $1.5 billion in fiscal 1984 and $20.4 billion by 1988. The Administration plan has other cost-slashing measures, including a oneyear freeze on Medicare fees...
...feel afraid. Or angry. Instead, he even found himself glancing toward the curb where a chauffeur dozed, or maddeningly seemed to doze, at the wheel of a parked limousine. There was still nobody else on the street. He was aware that whatever it was in the thief s pocket might not be a knife. Very likely wasn't. It occurred to him to demand to see the weapon, then dodge toward the hotel. At the same time he felt constrained, in some peculiarly inappropriate way, like an actor walking through a barely rehearsed part. Bits of idiot dialogue...
...found himself astonished. Then, for the first time, he had an urge, as strong as a clenching fist, to kill them. His coat had a special change pocket cut laterally into the button flap. It was small, but large enough for a tiny, hammerless handgun he owned and sometimes, to his wife's horror, threatened to license and carry. In an instant, he moved his hand and, in a theatrical reflex, leveled a pointing finger at the retreating shapes. With the gun in hand, he knew, knew, he would have fired. Aiming for the legs. But he certainly could...
...some observers as a bit light. Conceding that the costs of setting up the Japanscam were far greater than that, Assistant U.S. Attorney Herbert Hoffman added: "But then we don't run criminal investigations on a cost-effective basis. Justice has been accomplished." Also, Hitachi is out of pocket considerably more than $24,000. The $622,000 that Hitachi paid Glenmar, an FBI front, is still in the U.S. Treasury. Federal authorities say they have no intention of returning...