Marsh would then show its customer what were apparently competing quotes, knowing that invariably the rival's cheaper quote would be accepted and that it would later pocket a contingent commission.
Short-sellers borrow a share from a bank or other financial institution for a fee, sell it, then hope to buy it back for less later, pocketing the difference.
It was difficult for them to conceive that far away, in corporate offices, things had moved faster still: that Michael Milken had facilitated a leveraged buyout of Fruit of the Loom on behalf of a C.E.O. who a dozen years later pocketed forty million dollars in compensation while sales fell, moved headquarters to the Cayman Islands, and eventually filed for bankruptcy.
Look at the bribery allegations that have now enveloped just about every World Cup bidding process since 1998 and they all have in common the fact that money was channelled to voters for development purposes that was later pocketed as bribes.
Within the settings, you can choose to connect all of your social accounts, like Google+, Facebook, Read It Later, Pocket and Evernote, for sharing and commenting purposes, so you don't have to keep tapping in your password.
Hmong traditionally farm upland areas where the CIA set up clandestine operating bases during the war and, incredibly, 35 years later, tiny pockets of Hmong fighters are still battling the Lao army.
Save for later service Pocket debuted a new feature today, which allows users to quickly send content saved to their Pocket accounts to contacts from within the app.
A few moments and one slot machine later the pocket money had been transformed into £51,000, local media reported.
Allowing users to save articles to read offline across multiple devices, it looked sure to put paid to the burgeoning field of 'read-later' apps, such as Instapaper, Read It Later (now Pocket), and Readability.
In that case, investors who have sold borrowed assets in the hope of reselling them later and pocketing the difference as profit could find themselves frantically buying to stop losses.
