Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ranked Princeton Tigers (6-1, 2-0) are the Tyson of the college lacrosse world with two consecutive national championships in its back pocket and the most intimidating team, on paper, in the country...
Perhaps the most revealing accusations against them involve Loewen, the Canada-based funeral-home chain that sought the pastor's help to sell its burial services through convention churches. Prosecutors say Lyons persuaded Loewen to make contributions to several convention causes and then diverted the money into his own pocket. Lyons and Edwards also allegedly went to Loewen in 1995 after the company lost a bankrupting $500 million civil suit in Mississippi and said they could get the verdict reversed for $2 million. In January 1996 Loewen settled for $175 million. Lyons and Edwards then called to scold Loewen...
...anyone remembers the title of his most famous book, which has sold 50 million copies in 42 languages. In fact, there were two titles. The hardcover edition, published in 1946, was called The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care; the paperback, priced at 25[cents], was The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care...
...second man then said "Give me your money or we'll mess you up," recalled Hanson. He then preceded to forcefully remove Hansen's wallet from his back pocket while the first man pushed him down...
...heaved a sigh of relief. When the first WinCE devices came out, Dubinsky recalls, "we said, 'Uh-oh, it's all over for us now.'" But consumers weren't as interested in what came to be known as "tweeners"--computers that are neither full-featured laptops nor true handheld pocket devices. "They were sort of in never-never land," she says. By the end of 1997, Palm had grabbed two-thirds of the market for handheld devices, and those running on WinCE 1.0 were far behind...