Pocket
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Private spending remains weak, not least where continued high unemployment has led consumers, concerned about future prospects, to
pocket
their wallets.
Healthcare is financed largely out-of
pocket
– up to 60% in Asia – and many countries shoulder a “triple disease burden” of “old” diseases like tuberculosis and malaria, new infectious diseases like Influenza A (H1N1), and a “silent pandemic” in the form of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
That way, instead of allowing smugglers and exploitative employers to
pocket
billions at the expense of migrants, states can collect more taxes through formal employment.
In fact, the policy was a disaster for the world's most vulnerable children: any out of
pocket
costs for schooling meant no schooling at all.
Moreover, while Germany has been a steadfast supporter of European integration, it is understandably reluctant to become the deep
pocket
that finances bailouts in the euro zone.
Properly structured, it would relieve Germany’s anxiety about other countries picking its
pocket.
When public health systems do not cover critical services – for example, cervical cancer screening – people are forced either to forego those services or to pay out of
pocket
for them.
According to one mean-spirited critic, Zuckerberg was simply moving his “money from one
pocket
to the other” with a substantial “PR return-on-investment [that] dwarfs that of his Facebook stock.”
But they cannot get so close to private firms that they end up in companies’ pocket, or, at the other extreme, simply order them around.
Executives should not be able to
pocket
and retain large amounts of bonus compensation even when the performance on which the bonuses are based is subsequently sharply reversed.
Indeed, Bhutan remains India’s sole
pocket
of strategic clout in South Asia.
Germans don’t feel so rich anymore, so they don’t want to continue serving as the deep
pocket
for the rest of Europe.
It also allows key employees to be hired with potentially valuable stock options that economize on out of
pocket
expenses.
The incentive problem stems from the fact that when governments procure a road project, the winning contractor may cut corners, because he gets to
pocket
the savings.
I had had no idea that the tin of dental floss in my
pocket
– which I quickly handed over – was so valuable.
In fact, while Clark’s paltry fine presumably at least comes out of his own pocket, the penalty levied on JPM is to be paid largely by its shareholders.
For Trump, no money is too tainted to
pocket.
To quote the head of the OECD, they are “back at work, but out of pocket.”
Finally, policymakers will need to address the “wrong
pocket
problem,” whereby the sector benefiting from an intervention may not be the one that bears the cost of implementing it.
“Spaniards will collect €78 billion, and even the Greeks will
pocket
€23 billion.”
While the Americans have stated that their “vision” must be accepted fully or not at all, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, facing a court trial on multiple charges of corruption, has been happy to
pocket
whatever political handouts Trump offers him in the meantime.
Will Facebook simply
pocket
the difference?
The government pretended that this was just a “precautionary” program: Argentina would keep the money in its back
pocket
to reassure private investors.
Putin knows not to bother negotiating with Lukashenko unless he has a stick in the hand and a carrot in the
pocket.
One
pocket
was for fiduciary investments geared toward making as much money as possible, regardless of social or environmental considerations.
The other
pocket
was for philanthropic efforts aimed at doing as much good as possible, while disregarding financial returns.
'Come in, please!' he said, trying to put on an air of indifference, as he entered the hall and took a key from his
pocket
to unlock the door.
'You know, in the side
pocket!
he answered with a smile, plunging his fingers into his waistcoat
pocket.
The German was already putting his hand to the
pocket
where he kept a notebook with a pencil in which he made all his calculations, but remembering that he was at dinner, and noticing Vronsky's cold look, he desisted.
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