Word: pocketing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Researcher Naushad Mehta, who worked with Palmer on recent stories about Swiss banks, the Turkish economy and aid to Third World countries, knows the troubles of struggling economies firsthand. When the Indian rupee was devalued by 36.5% in 1966, Mehta, then a Bombay schoolgirl, saw the value of her pocket money dwindle abruptly. "It was," she recalls vividly, "quite a shock. The kind of thing you remember...
...calls himself a "graduate survivor." During World War II he was sent by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After Soviet troops liberated the death camp, he worked for the U.S. Army repairing type writers. Then he went into business on his own, eventually getting into the manufacture of pocket calculators...
...calculators. At 22, after a brief stint as a science writer and editor specializing in home electronics, Sinclair and his wife Anne set up a mail order house selling transistors and later kits for miniradios no bigger than match boxes. In the 1970s he made one of the earliest pocket calculators with advanced mathematical functions, designed a pioneering, inexpensive digital wristwatch, and introduced a tiny TV with a 2-in. screen. Ahead of their time, none survived very long...
...oblique commentary on the times of their lives. Posterity, should there be any, may well look back on this century as the time of displaced masses, victims of revolutions that threatened to set them free. The story of two brothers leading quiet lives in a changeless pocket of the world is a still point within the center of the chaos. Chatwin evokes a time of homelessness through the story of those lucky enough to stay home. -By Paul Gray
Good evening, this is your anchorman, Harry Hairspray, with the Six O'clock News. Tonight's top story: VIDEO GOES VEST POCKET...