Word: pockets
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...Getty began in the mind and pocket of the man whose name it bears: J. Paul Getty, the oil billionaire who in 1974 had installed his collection of Roman and Greek antiquities, French furniture and medium-level European paintings in a preposterous $17 million replica of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, overlooking the Pacific at Malibu. Those who sneered at this as the Disneyism of a crackpot Scrooge McDuck were staggered when, after Getty died in 1976, it turned out that he left his museum almost $700 million--the largest endowment ever given to a cultural institution...
Neglectful caregivers are preying not only on elderly residents but also on American taxpayers. More than $45 billion in government funds, mostly from Medicare and Medicaid, is pumped into nursing homes annually, an amount that comes to nearly 60% of the national tab for such eldercare. In order to pocket a larger slice of the federal stipend, many nursing homes--largely for-profit enterprises--provide a minimal level of care, if that...
...theme of the 1990s. His strategy: if a business doesn't add value, say goodbye. "I know something very simple," Goizueta told FORTUNE in 1995, "and that is: the way to become richer is you borrow money at a certain rate and invest it at a higher rate and pocket the difference. So we went very methodically over much of our business...
...hire its own principal and teachers, manage its own budget and teach its own curriculum. In exchange the district would pay Edison about $3,600 a child, roughly the same amount it spends on its other 48,000 students. If Edison educated the children for less money, it could pocket the difference as profit. In return, Edison guaranteed improvement on standardized tests. If the district wasn't satisfied, it could simply terminate the contract...
...wife Reve. But only recently did Walsh--the no-nonsense host of the Fox TV show America's Most Wanted--decide to write down his own story. From its searing prologue through its frank re-creation of the lives undone by Adam's murder, Tears of Rage (Pocket Books; 318 pages; $24) astonishes the reader by turning a familiar tale into one full of fresh detail, undiminished pain and troubling revelation...