Word: pockets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Amount per teacher that Portland, Ore., started allocating this year for out-of-pocket expenses...
...increasingly red (and egg-spattered) face of the IOC just blushed one shade deeper. After finally achieving some distance from charges of corruption and pocket-lining, the beleaguered International Olympics Committee is on the block again. It seems that after examining the results of a two-year federally funded study surveying doping at the Games, the White House office of drug policy has written a scathing rebuke of the IOC, blaming the committee's haphazard screening methods for the rising incidence of athletic drug abuse. The 107-page reprimand was released Friday...
...looking over a set of accounts. He had a question or something, so he called one of the junior managers, and of course the fellow came rushing right in. But the fellow was smoking. And he put the cigarette--still lit--into his pants pocket because my father didn't smoke and didn't approve of people who did. And he stood there as he talked to my father, with his pocket burning, obviously in some distress. And finally he finished the business and walked out. And I was really shocked. And I said to my father quite angrily...
...appearances to the contrary, BILL GATES is sort of a geek. With billions of dollars in pocket cash, his hobbies might reasonably include small-country collecting or skyscraper demolition, but instead the founder of Microsoft prefers good ol' granny-playin' bridge. Naturally, he is not just a hobbyist but a competitive player, and last weekend he participated in the mixed team finals of the North American Bridge Championships in Anaheim, Calif. While the Gates squad finished 50th out of 52 teams, Mr. Bill seemed buoyed just to be in the heady air of all those bridge geniuses. "The game...
...when you lose. But if you have any interest in seeing that respect evolve into full-fledged admiration and fondness, you'd be well-advised to drop the whole self-congratulatory post-win schtick. It's grating. And Americans, pompous as we are, prefer to see our sports heroes pocket their wins with a certain degree of humility. Think of Grant Hill, or Bernie Williams, or Mario Lemieux. We love these guys - and they never have to remind us of just how great they...