Lucky for Grant it wasn't because he would have been turning out empty pockets on this grim evidence.

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Today, the massive caves where the Buddhas once stood are huge, empty pockets carved into cliffs that dominate the countryside.

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He's facing 40 months in prison for helping a client, Orange County "Billionaire with the Empty Pockets" Igor Olenicoff, hide money offshore.

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Before going up to the set, cast and crew members were required to empty their pockets of everything, including cellphones, in case something fell off the set.

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And previous studies have found most lawsuits are against larger companies, perhaps indicating a desire to empty deep pockets rather than ferret out financial fraud, which one might suspect would be more common at smaller, more loosely governed companies.

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But Regina Rabinovich of the Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic agencies in the world, says small private gifts complement official aid in multiple ways: when simple folk empty their pockets, that bolsters political support for government help.

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On a walking tour of the town center, Elliot points out Easton's cache of historic 19th-cenury buildings and pockets of empty storefronts.

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