Word: pocketsful
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USAGE: "Visitors to London always have to be on the lookout for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose--putpockets. Aware that people are suffering during the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets are now trawling London's tourist sites slipping money back into unsuspecting pockets...
One initiative you've recently announced is the ability for people to tweet business plans to you. What's the thinking behind that? There are thousands of people out there who would like to get business ideas to me, and in any one day, I'll have a pocketful of...
Worldwide, there are more than twice as many displaced people - about 25 million - as war refugees, according to the U.N. But because they do not cross international borders, which can provoke the wrath of governments and the attention of aid groups, they are sometimes overlooked. In Colombia, most people live...
Microsoft claims Bing isn't even a search engine - it's a "decision engine." What that means isn't exactly clear. Bing seems to work the same way Google does: type in some keywords, it gives you some Web results. But the marketing shows signs of gaining traction. According to...
Every major metropolis has its share of slums; the U.N. estimates that one-third of the developing world's urban population lives in them, with nearly 40% of East Asian urban dwellers living in slum conditions. In Hong Kong, the worst of those are the cages, a notorious feature of...