Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fortunately that summer [before junior year] when he was treated he virtually went in the day school ended and incidently he ended up getting out of the hospital the day I went back to preseason," said Stauffer. "So it was this tight pocket of time where I wasn't pulled and I could give just everything I had to my brother...
CUPERTINO, Calif.: Effectively splashing out two-thirds of its pocket money from Microsoft, Apple Computer has snapped up one of the leading producers of Macintosh clones. Their $100 million stock purchase of Power Computing Corp, coming hot on the heels of Bill Gates' $150 million investment in Apple, may seem rather quixotic given that the company's share of the overall computer market has been squeezed to under 5 percent by cheap PCs. "They could buy up all their competitors, and still not make any progress," says TIME's computer industry analyst David Jackson. "It's like bringing your uncle...
...Summer Olympics ? who spent around $100 million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...
...Liotta has the toughest role and does wonders with it. He gets to play ambiguities. Stallone has to dramatize indecision; he does it by carefully plodding toward Freddy's crisis. He describes the sheriff as "a noble turtle," and during the shoot he kept a small turtle in his pocket. Mangold wanted the star to lose his chiseled look, so Stallone gained 40 lbs. of flab--a condition he often felt obliged to explain. "He'd say, 'Hey, I'm doing a movie, that's why I'm heavy,'" Liotta recalls. "He'd say this to a perfect stranger...
...York organization and had to fly down for a meeting. I chose an arrival time two hours in advance of the meeting, just in case there were any flight or traffic delays. There weren't. So, since I had extra time and I hate to pay 30 out-of-pocket bucks for a cab, or even $10 for the Carey Bus from LaGuardia to mid-town, I decided to see if you can get from the airport to mid-town Manhattan on $1.50. Hey, you never know...