Word: pockets
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...program will help many of the working poor it targets. Offering a maximum benefit of $2,000 toward purchasing health insurance to families making no more than $30,000 a year, the Bush tax credit will in most cases fall well short of covering the whole bill. Out-of-pocket expenses for a family, depending on where it lives, may be several thousand dollars, still far more than the hard-pressed can afford. Bush advisers serve up some happy x factors to fill in the promise gap. Insurance companies, they say, will offer cheaper plans to accommodate this new pool...
...traits with past violent offenders and guided the school to put him in counseling and under close watch. "When those kids walked into Columbine with bombs, no one was expecting it," says Underwood. "We're now on alert if this child comes into school with a bulge in his pocket...
When I got hold of one of Microsoft's new Pocket PCs, set for release this week, my first concern was for my coat pockets. The poor things get thoroughly frayed with all the portable equipment I jam into them every morning: CD player, Palm Pilot, e-mail pager, voice recorder, a novel for the train. Pocket PC promises to do the work of all of the above in a single 9-oz. shell (made variously by Compaq, H-P and Casio). Given that my local tailor charges me the equivalent of the national debt of a small country...
Indeed, the all-in-one functionality of the Pocket PC is enough to make you drop to your knees and thank heaven for the 21st century. Surfing the Web with text and full-color photos was a joy. Reading and sending e-mail--even with nettlesome attachments--was a snap. Plugging in headphones and listening to MP3 music files while playing solitaire made my morning commute...
...been very persuasive had I not grown so fiercely loyal to the sleek little Palm V that I bought a few months ago to replace a lost and lamented Filofax organizer. To win me over completely--not to mention the millions of Palm enthusiasts who dominate the handheld market--Pocket PC would have to be easier to understand and simpler to operate than a Palm, especially when doing boring workaday stuff like entering lunch dates and addresses and jotting down memos...