Word: dime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years, Coke had begun closing the gap, but the Thai government hurt the company's sales a year ago when it raised the excise tax on soft drinks by more than 100%. That made Coke and Pepsi raise their prices from a dime to 15? a bottle. Thai peasants, who leaned toward Pepsi but occasionally bought both drinks, were forced by the higher prices to cut their consumption and choose one or the other. More often than not, they chose Pepsi...
Turnaround proves that it is a lot cheaper to write a Hollywood novel than to make a Hollywood film. For one thing, Author Don Carpenter, 50, gets Paul Newman to make two cameo appearances without paying him a dime. The other, fictitious actors also come free. Jerry Rexford is an aspiring young screenwriter who supports himself by doing editing jobs at a trade journal called Pet Care Hotline. One of his scripts catches the attention of Rick Heidelberg, a Wunderkind director-producer desperately looking for a property that will match his first, and only, success. Heidelberg must deal with...
...Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Then, before Commentary and Consumer Reports, come three shelves labelled "Comix," "Comix Continued" (this one has copies of The Economist), and "You Guessed It." On the first of these is a large, red book called "All in Color for a Dime," a discussion of early comics which begins, "What shapes a people...." And inside the front cover is the Quincy House seal, bearing Josiah Quincy's own signature and the House motto: "Discretio Moderatrix Virtutum"--"Prudence governs the virtuous...
Handel said he phoned the MBTA police--a toll call--but his dime ran out before the officer could record the details of the assault...
With all the doubts, how could the Post submit the story for a Pulitzer Prize? "In for a dime, in for a dollar" was Woodward's attitude. Coleman's was: "If we did not nominate the story, there would have been questions asked." Bradlee, who had ardently defended the story to all comers, insisted to the ombudsman that he had heard no reservations whatsoever about it from his staff. Howard Simons, the managing editor, said, "I had reason to doubt, but no reason to disbelieve. And Woodward supported the nomination thoroughly...