Pocket New York City Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet · 27 Sep 2012
, so use common sense. Don’t walk around alone at night in unfamiliar, sparsely populated areas, especially if you’re a woman. Carry your daily walking-around money somewhere inside your clothing or in a front pocket rather than in a handbag or a back pocket, and be aware of pickpockets particularly in
Time Travelers Never Die
by Jack McDevitt · 10 Sep 2009 · 460pp · 108,654 words
Shel kept the other converters. Someone else was in on the secret! “How much cash did he keep on hand?” Dave shrugged. “Just small bills. Walking-around money. It wouldn’t have been worth a break-in. Certainly not killing someone.” “You’d be surprised how little a life can be worth, Doctor
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words
’s office before our announcement as DIUx’s leaders. Raj was in town for a few days of frantic planning. Carter had agreed we needed “walking around money” to remedy the perception in the Valley—which was accurate—that DIUx 1.0 had had no ability to close a deal. The idea was
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to the north, toward the Pentagon’s helipad, with Arlington Cemetery in the distance. “Well, Mike,” Chris started, “the Secretary wants us to have some walking around money, so we can show good faith right away in the Valley. We also need to hire a larger team. I know we’re off-cycle
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to destroy our credibility. Months later, in July 2018, when the funds still hadn’t arrived, Raj and Butow supported Capella by dipping into the “walking around” money Carter had directed DIUx have at its opening. These were the funds that got DIUx so crosswise with Evelyn and Ed, the two congressional staffers
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline · 15 Feb 2011 · 458pp · 137,960 words
considered me a noob. It was beyond frustrating. In desperation, I’d tried to find a part-time after-school job, just to earn some walking-around money. I applied for dozens of tech support and programming jobs (mostly grunt construction work, coding parts of OASIS malls and office buildings), but it was
Celebration of Fools: An Inside Look at the Rise and Fall of JCPenney
by Bill Hare · 30 May 2004 · 352pp · 96,692 words
produce a fashion show with virtually no budget. The solution was found in equal parts of chutzpah, earnestness, and scintillating designs. Tony Haake provided some walking-around money, and Hankins and Ackerman put together a team of Penney volunteers. In Los Angeles, manufacturers familiar with Hankins were easily sold on providing 50 samples
Red Moon Rising
by Matthew Brzezinski · 2 Jan 2007 · 497pp · 124,144 words
panic. But Voskresenskiy had calmly told Korolev, “Give me a crane, some cash, five men of my choosing, and three hours.” With wads of vodka-walking-around money bulging out of their pockets, Voskresenskiy’s men safely dismantled the one-ton warhead, after which they got royally drunk. Like a great many test
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020
debate, George Bush reduced John Connally to spluttering by pressing him to answer a charge that he was buying black votes with $700,000 in “walking around money.” Atwater was responsible for the smear, passing it on to Bush’s advisor Harry Dent—so it was traced back to Bush’s campaign, not
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words
. Jack Kennedy’s opponents pinned $20 bills to their lapels—“Kennedy buttons.” The joke was too cheap by more than half: the real amount of “walking around” money per Kennedy man was $50. And they called Dick Nixon the dirty one. They weren’t unfriendly, these two young Turks of the Eightieth Congress
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
by Desmond Shum · 6 Sep 2021 · 277pp · 85,191 words
me not to have any spare change in my pocket when I first went to school in Hong Kong. I wanted to give the kids walking-around money so that they’d have a social life and wouldn’t feel like second-class students. The two biggest issues for students from poor families
Rigged Money: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game
by Lee Munson · 6 Dec 2011 · 236pp · 77,735 words
, you could buy all—not some—all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 ExxonMobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal.”1 I would like to add that the 67 cubic feet of gold could easily be
Den of Thieves
by James B. Stewart · 14 Oct 1991 · 706pp · 206,202 words
A Man in Full: A Novel
by Tom Wolfe · 31 Mar 2010 · 970pp · 302,110 words
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
by Roger Lowenstein · 19 Oct 2015 · 589pp · 128,484 words
Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History
by Jim Campbell · 26 Apr 2021 · 369pp · 107,073 words
Armed Humanitarians
by Nathan Hodge · 1 Sep 2011 · 390pp · 119,527 words
After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy · 15 Mar 2020 · 296pp · 83,254 words