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This is where the super-managers come in: they strive to pocket part of the value created by the team.
And, on a broader, institutional scale, the money spent and the money to be gained do not belong to the same pocket.
These days, however, he has a twenty-first-century instrument in his pocket; incoming calls in India are free under most calling plans, so it costs him nothing to find out where his services are needed.
Who gets to pocket this “team surplus”?
Many Britons recently returned from vacationing in the European sun to discover that their pound buys them much less than it used to: the euro in their pocket is now worth £0.92 ($1.19), up from £0.70 before the Brexit vote.
Lodging an application, even one without any chance of being accepted, is appealing, because until it is rejected, the applicant receives basic housing, social services (including health care), and pocket money in an amount that may well exceed wages in his or her home country.
Apologists will also argue that Bild is in the pocket of right-wing, anti-Russian German interests, and that the paper is just a tabloid – not to be taken seriously.
Parents seeking treatment for a malaria-stricken child, or a place for that child in school, must pay from their own pocket – an impossibility for many.
Similarly, under current law, soldiers will answer not to Baghdad but to regional powerbrokers, while the Iraqi constitution guarantees local governments the right to pocket the revenue that flows from new oil fields within their jurisdiction.
In the United States, health insurers cover the cost only if a first-degree relative – for example, a woman’s mother – has had a history of breast or ovarian cancer; other women must pay out of pocket.
Prior to reunification, Germany was the main motor of integration; now, weighed down by reunification’s costs, German taxpayers are determined to avoid becoming European debtors’ deep pocket.
But Saudi Arabia is not pursuing Saudi Aramco’s partial privatization to move money from one sovereign pocket to another; it needs to raise fresh capital to finance its spending needs.
Run by the autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, who has held the presidency since 1994, the country is supposedly already in the Kremlin’s back pocket.
Exporters may also choose to pocket any gains, rather than seek to expand market share.
Instead of commanding much of northern Sri Lanka, they are now confined to a shrinking pocket, and are reduced to mindless military stunts such as the recent bombing by light aircraft of the tax administration building in the capital, Colombo.
It is impossible to understand Trump’s rise without recourse to the popular perception (correct or not) that many American politicians are in the pocket of greedy bankers.
Information that once would fill a warehouse now fits in your shirt pocket.
In Thailand, almost every politician or official had his hands in the pocket of some bank or business; every bank had officials in its pockets, too.
As the slogan goes: euro in your wallet, Europe in your pocket.
One question raised by the deal is whether the $130,000, which Cohen says he paid out of his own pocket without Trump’s knowledge, amounted to an illegal campaign contribution.
But this is politically impossible at present, because Germany is adamantly opposed to serving as the deep pocket for its profligate partners.
The central bank – once in the pocket of the country’s oligarchs, supplying inside information on exchange rates and liquidity in exchange for bribes – has been put under the command of a governor committed to reform, surrounded by an increasingly professional team.
According to Putin, revenues from the tax “do not go into somebody’s pocket but into the Road Fund of the Russian Federation, down to the last cent.”
But, despite Putin’s reassurances, massive protests have continued, and so has the flow of money into Igor Rotenberg’s pocket.
The Upgrade MythNEW YORK – From the pocket calculator to the Prius, I’ve always been what they call an “early adopter.”
I have no doubt that sometime later this century, one will be able to buy pocket professors – perhaps with holographic images – as easily as one can buy a pocket Kasparov chess computer today.
By one estimate, almost 90% of people in low- and middle-income countries will face impoverishment if they have to pay out of pocket for a single commonly used generic drug.
Thirty years from now, we will wonder how we ever got along without our seemingly telepathic digital assistants, just as today it’s already hard to imagine going more than a few minutes without checking the 1980s mainframe in one’s pocket.
The foreign currency earned by the export of missiles and nuclear or other weapons goes either directly into Kim Jong-Il’s pocket, or is used to fund further nuclear development.
Icelandic banks, for example, took deposits in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and swept them back to Reykjavik, leaving the host countries out of pocket.
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