Word: dime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...packaging the industry should adopt; it would set a standard for the industry to meet in any way that companies might choose. Estimates are that new packaging will cost the industry between $20 million and $30-million a year and will add anything from a penny to a dime to the price of nonprescription drugs...
...Rooney, disclosed his suspicions about designer underwear, his shock that no Mrs. Smith exists at Mrs. Smith's Pies, and his habit of saving warranties for appliances long since discarded. What accounts for the popularity of such ordinary views? Rooney thinks it is his compliance: "Rebels are a dime a dozen," he writes...
...times, the play between happiness and unhappiness becomes exquisitely subtle. As the steelworker leaves the stage, lights pick up two corporate executives loudly casting aspersions on their parking attendant (Ronald Brown); they throw a dime tip, expecting him to scrabble. But instead Brown swings into an ebullient softshoe number, boasting of his car-parking skills; the mood lifts and lifts, and suddenly a clump of leotarded dancers inches and rolls onstage to join him, representing--incredibly--a car, white tires and all. Brown later plays a gas-meter reader whose pastime is to scare sunbathing housewives so that their bathing...
Astaire and Rogers may have inspired Americans to dance, but Arthur Murray, 87, taught them. From touch dancing in a flyspecked, New York City dime-a-dance hall in 1913, to a nationwide chain of dance studios, to national prominence on television's The Arthur Murray Party, a ratings winner in the 1950s, to a seemingly choreographed game of doubles with his wife Kathryn on courts near their Hawaiian home below Diamond Head, the former Broadway hoofer has always kept both feet on the ground. His professional foxtrotting days behind him, although he still takes a turn...
...recession, which pushed unemployment 9.5% in May, the highest level since the beginning of World War II. Priscilla Mantle's husband lost his job as regional manager of a truck-leasing firm in Dallas two months ago. Says she: "I haven't got a spare dime to my name. I've cut back all my spending on anything that isn't absolutely necessary. I'm even cutting down on food. We're able to make our house payments and all that, but it's very close...