Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoedown.) Such employers are looking to hire 15,000 people this year, notably experienced programmers and top-level managers. Entry-level slots are also available: high school grads with some technical training can pull down $26,000 to $28,000 a year as technicians at semiconductor plants, and pocket $40,000 after four or five years...
...story of Charles Yah Lin Trie might once have taxed the imagination of a Hollywood movie producer: A Taiwan-born man arrives in America empty of pocket but full of ambition. After working as a busboy in Washington, he opens a restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, befriends a future President of the U. S. and expands his business empire to the Far East. He becomes a top fund raiser for his old friend's party and then taps into a far-flung network of Buddhists for quick cash when the President gets into legal trouble. Eventually, he returns to Washington...
...played a major role in running it. He accused Kott of fraud, tax evasion and various other crimes. The criminal investigation stalled because Kott could not be extradited from Canada. Kott settled the case against him and other operators of the boiler room for about $4 million. This was pocket change in comparison with what First Commerce collected. Prosecutor Koers estimates that investors lost a bare minimum of $100 million. Jan van Apeldoorn, the bankruptcy receiver, believes the total damage was as high as $400 million. Having been made unwelcome in the Netherlands, Kott, together with some of his associates...
Yale quarterback Kris Barber took the snap and tried to find an open man downfield, but couldn't. Under pressure, Barber ran our of the pocket and leaped. The chains came out--it was that close--and Barber had the first down...
...POCKET PROTECTION...