Word: dime
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Magic Johnson was a brand name as well as his own, and that he wasn't benefiting from it. So he became the first active N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime from it," he says. From that came "Magic's 32," a store selling his T shirts and other merchandise. He later bought a Pepsi Cola distributorship with Black Enterprise publisher Earl Graves. He has since sold Graves his interest. Johnson's basketball and business skills --he owns a piece...
...Reebok is one of the worst of some 1,500 stocks in CalPERS' portfolio, god bless 'em. They could teach Warren Buffet a thing or two. Have they no Woolworths? The company hasn't been worth a dime in a decade. Times-Mirror trades below its 1987 peak. Bethlehem Steel has been pure lead for years. I don't know if CalPERS owns those awful stocks. The point is that real losers are out there. Dumping on Reebok is like saying you don't want Shaq on your team because he isn't Michael Jordan. Reebok founder and CEO Paul...
...DIME-A-MINUTE SURPRISE...
...statistic that the Alliance has only four officers and only one of them is female, God only knows (News, Jan. 29). But in the future, if you all would like to call me and would like me to continue returning your calls long distance on my dime to answer whatever article you may want to write, please make at least some minimal effort to adequately represent my words and the facts of our organization's existence. I would like to stress that this is not a personal attack on you, Jal, and I harbor no ill-will towards...
...election day American political journalism typically turns on a dime. Before the election reporters and pundits are obsessed with the minutiae of the campaign: consultants, fund raising, TV spots, sound bites. The premise is that these quotidian details are crucial to a highly uncertain outcome. Immediately after the outcome is known, however, journalists start treating themselves and their customers to grander themes: the voters' message, the sweep of history and so on. The premise is that these larger forces explain what happened...