Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blowup over the Chinese connection has already made it doubtful that Beijing will get Congress to grant it permanent MFN status this year. Even longtime supporters are worried about appearing to be in China's pocket. In Long Beach, California, residents are protesting a city plan to lease the abandoned Long Beach Naval Station to the China Ocean Shipping Company Americas, a firm controlled by the Chinese government. California Senators Feinstein and Boxer, who are ordinarily dependable China boosters, have asked the Pentagon to look into the security implications of the lease...
...rebels who will insist on clinging to the antiquated H-word despite all arguments to the contrary. But, fear not. With a firm commitment to a re-naming propaganda campaign, even the staunchest old-schoolers will come around. Notice that, after just a few years, only a small pocket of "North House" resistance remains, thanks to the re-education efforts of the new Pforzheimer regime...
While computer games may be addictive, violent--and even dare I say it--a grand waste of time, it is heartening to realize that in a world where College-issue sweats and pocket-protectors signify a continental divide, computer games provide a sense of common ground...
...traditionally had little tolerance for immigrants, least of all Koreans. When Son started Softbank in 1981, his ambitions so unnerved his first two employees that they quit within two weeks. The 39-year-old Japanese entrepreneur, who made his first $1 million at age 20 by selling an electronic-pocket-translator patent to Sharp, never blinked. Barely graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, he begged and borrowed enough to build a company that by 1995 controlled half the Japanese market for personal-computer software...
...with white; slave rebellion; slave capture. "Me, Ezra, and Mamma was all hid in a tunnel behind the wall of the cabin when light flashed between the slits in the board..." A few pages and generations later, a young American black man, well dressed, we assume, money in his pocket, we assume, watches poor blacks in the Caribbean and thinks, "I wanted a connection to these people, wanted to share pots of curried goat and warm lager in Trenchertown because I was one of them." Imagining: "Black people gonna rise up." Knowing sheepishly: "The whole time just an advertising executive...