Word: pocketing
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...Willowbrook through an ad in the New York Times. The ad, which appeared on a Sunday in the middle of June, read something like this: "Students! Do you want to do something relevant and put some bread in your pocket too? Work as a recreational aide at Willowbrook this summer and take patients out on hikes and nature walks. It will be very rewarding...
...customers will ultimately benefit because it will make for better products and better price performance." The company, of course, will not collect its sudden bonanza while the case is tied up in appeals, a process that could last for years. But if the judgment is upheld, Telex will ultimately pocket interest payments as well-which pile up at the rate of nearly $100,000 per day, or half as fast as the firm's current sales...
...know what it would take to get this guy," Griggs told the Braves' management, "but I'd pay it out of my own pocket." It took, as it happened, just $350, or $50 more a month than the New York Giants were offering Aaron at the time. That paltry sum, recalls Aaron, "was the only thing that kept Willie Mays and me from being teammates." And the Giants from winning untold World Series...
...advance over Walt Disney. But few of the technical tricks come up to the level of Fritz the Cat, Bakshi's earlier effort, which demonstrated the possibilities of x-rated animation with such scenes as, to choose one, a fight in a bar viewed from the pocket of the pool table...
Depending on the 1973 harvests, even raisins may return. But for now, keep a package in your pocket...