pocket borough English

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pocket borough

— noun a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family

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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.

In World War II, German corporations were all too willing to profit from the slave labor of those in concentration camps, and Swiss banks were happy to pocket the gold of Jewish victims of Nazi terror.

Exporters may also choose to pocket any gains, rather than seek to expand market share.

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.

In 1980, a gigabyte of data storage occupied a room; now, 200 gigabytes of storage fits in your shirt pocket.

The US Department of Defense was the only customer for integrated circuits in 1962, but by the end of the decade consumers were buying transistor radios and pocket calculators in droves.

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.

But this is politically impossible at present, because Germany is adamantly opposed to serving as the deep pocket for its profligate partners.

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.

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.

As the slogan goes: euro in your wallet, Europe in your pocket.

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.

These Wall Street princes were smarter in one way, however: they managed to pocket a fortune while the rest of us are stuck with the mess they left behind.

But this is politically impossible at present, because Germany is adamantly opposed to serving as the deep pocket for its profligate partners. Therefore, makeshift arrangements will have to be found.

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.

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.