Word: dime
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Boarded-up store fronts, closed banks,five-and-dime shops and weather-beaten barsdominate the urban landscape...
While The Crimson should be commended for its recent coverage of the difficulties of funding student groups, "Student Groups Ask: Can You Spare a Dime?" (March 2) describes only a few of the funding sources available for student groups. There are a number of additional funding sources available, such as the Radcliffe Union of Students, Education for Action (E4A), and the Institute of Politics. None of these is very large, and each of them funds grants only for a select range of activities, but student groups should carefully consider all of their potential funding options...
...also refuse to spend a dime...
...reform done to the TEAMSTERS, once the nation's richest and most powerful union, what the Mob couldn't? The latest financial report prepared by the union's secretary-treasurer and obtained by TIME, shows that the scandal-plagued union may be down to its last dime. The report, dated Jan. 26, 1998, and covering the fiscal quarter ending in September 1997, shows only $702,000 left in union coffers. Insiders say Teamsters headquarters faces large-scale layoffs within the next week or two. Those layoffs and the as-yet-unpaid bills for the government's inept efforts to clean...
Could there possibly be a tinier or more innocent-seeming measurement than the millijoule? The unit of energy denotes roughly the wallop packed by a dime dropped on a table from a height of 2 in. But as the National Transportation Safety Board revealed in hearings held in Baltimore last week, minuscule can mean sinister. Calmly, patiently, safety-board explosion expert Merritt Birky explained that a spark carrying one-quarter millijoule of energy was all that was necessary to ignite the contents of the 12,890-gal. central fuel tank of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 off Long Island...