Word: pocketing
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...lack of procedure and organization, especially with regard to entry blanks, "irritated me a little bit," said head coach Don Gambril. "He (Batterman) ran the meet out of his pocket...
...reporter for a New Hampshire newspaper, I can attest to the fact that the 19th century is alive and well in this retrograde poverty pocket of America...
Even for the affluent U.S., Papanek lists scores of useful items that designers have never bothered to make. For example, there is still no inexpensive pill bottle that dispenses one pill at a time and is thus safe from children's tampering. There is no practical pocket-size Braille writer, no simple gas and electricity meter, no well-designed first-aid kit, no cheap hearing aid (though transistor radios using the same basic technology cost only $3.98). He himself had to invent a cloth book his infant daughter might enjoy, complete with bright colors and different textures...
...most technical and most controversial of the SEC proposals is a plan to permit institutional investors such as mutual funds and insurance companies to own brokerage houses that are members of stock exchanges-though only under tight limitations. An institution with such a brokerage subsidiary can in effect pocket the commissions that it otherwise would have to pay independent brokers. Institution subsidiaries now hold seats on some regional exchanges but are rigidly barred from the New York and American exchanges...
...wings, and never seen, is a devil ex machina, Simmo, a man who strip-mines simple souls like Bentley. Buzo tells us that the meek do not in herit the earth, and that the power-brutes who do pocket only cinders...