Word: pocketing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Roads. Once part of a backward, undeveloped pocket of northeastern France, Strasbourg today has the Continent at its doorstep. Some 230 trains pass through the town daily, and there are 5,000 miles of quality roads in the immediate area, including German autobahns and Swiss autoroutes that put Frankfurt and Basel only two hours away. (Ironically, it is easier for an Alsatian to travel out of France than to his own capital: Paris is 200 miles and a five-hour drive away, on a treacherous, obsolete two-lane highway.) The handsome new Entzheim Airport, with runways big enough to handle...
...airport in Merida," says Munoz, "they dumped us all out of the airplane, and then they shooed us away like chickens. I had only $10 in my pocket, so I started out on foot. I walked, I thumbed rides, then I walked some more. None of those rich tourists in their big fast cars would pick me up, just ranch folks in their broken-down trucks or oxcarts...
...Switzerland lands on a French meadow where cows are peaceably grazing. Awaiting it is a Frenchman, who gives the pilot a suitcase loaded with gold or cash. The plane returns to Switzerland; at the same time, the Frenchman proceeds to Switzerland with a few hundred francs in his pocket for the satisfaction of customs inspectors. Once across the border, he recovers his money from the pilot and deposits it in a Swiss bank account...
...breaking out of his grim world by becoming a celebrity is exploded when the music producer, who controls distribution of nearly all records on the island, offers him $20 for his song-take it or leave it. Too proud at first to accept, Ivan becomes desperate enough to pocket the money and wait around to become famous. When that does not happen, Ivan's recourse is to become a dope dealer and, almost by accident, a desperado. This means of escape turns out to be a true means to an end. It kills him and it makes him famous...
...total of $581 million. President Hewlett, 59, did even better; his H-P stock rose $271 million, to $604 million. Packard, a highly able administrator, and Hewlett, a shirt-sleeved engineer, managed the company to a 61% profit gain in the last fiscal year; successful introduction of two advanced pocket calculators accounted for much of the increase...