Search Details

Word: socked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...need a good checking account, bigger banks are definitely not better. That's the conclusion of a new Bank Rate Monitor study, which found that small, local banks offer the best deals in the U.S., while giants like Citibank and NationsBank sock customers with charges up to $200 a year. Small community banks are opening at record rates (200 last year alone), so watch your area for high yields and low minimum balances and fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Jun. 15, 1998 | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...interested in Ball, but not in the fellow with the pronounced Spanish accent she wanted to play her husband. To prove that the audience would accept them as a couple, Lucy and Desi cooked up a vaudeville act and took it on tour. It got rave reviews ("a sock new act," said Variety), and CBS relented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUCILLE BALL: The TV Star | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Roth acknowledges that his popularity has been boosted by his IRA legislation, which lets you sock away $2,000 a year in after-tax money that then grows tax-free. "As I walk around Wilmington," he told me, "people yell from their cars, young and old, all backgrounds, 'Hey, Bill, love your IRA!'" But what's good for Roth and for Everyman isn't necessarily good for you. The Roth, as it's known, could stand improvement. For starters, there are ridiculous income limits. Couples earning more than $160,000 a year are ineligible, and if they earn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Great Name in IRAs | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...turn sweatshirts and shorts into real athletic equipment that it calls "total performance product." Its fabric is skinlike, a point being made by a series of ads that feature pictures of such star athletes as Michael Johnson, Scotty Pippin and Gabrielle Reece wearing not so much as a sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Nike Get Unstuck? | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...convenient. They are small. They are tough. They are like the rare dog known as a fyce. Holding approximately 1.5 megabytes (MB) of data, they easily store a plethora of papers and other moderately-sized files. Transporting them is no big deal, as they could probably fit inside your sock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Floppy Disks Are Unreliable | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | Next