Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifted. But Comley's game evolved: instead of demanding that plants be shut down, he began insisting they be run safely. He teamed up with the sharp-witted Hadley to aid and abet whistle blowers and sank his life savings into We the People before taking a dime in donations. Comley, says the NRC's Norton, "has been useful in bringing important issues to our attention. Steve can be a very intense guy. I don't think it's good for his health. But people who seem--not fanatical, but overly intense--help democracy work...
...meantime, Lamar Alexander and Pat Buchanan have bumped up against a ceiling at 10%; Phil Gramm will try to hang on through the early races to reach his home turf in the Southern primaries on March 12. He parcels out his money dime by dime, flying around in rattletrap planes, wearing a beige wool coat he bought from a street vendor in Washington in 1979 and until recently sporting shabby shoes and a broken watch. Aides joke that they've thought the Senator would make one of them share a room with him if the local Super 8 gave...
Simpson, who could earn as much as $3 million from the tape if sales are hot, still owes his criminal-defense team hundreds of thousands of dollars and has not paid the lawyers in his civil trial one thin dime. Three weeks ago, when some of Simpson's friends came to his home to look at the video, he complained that "these white folks ain't gonna let me do anything. I've got to try to do something with blacks." So alarmed were Simpson's lawyers by the prospect of a public appearance the same week he was being...
...would be disastrous if we were cut," he said in an interview yesterday. "For 50 years, there has been a contract with universities to fund research. You can't just turn off these kinds of operations on a dime...
...Dime-store psychologists in Washington have tried to link Alma's much discussed clinical depression, which emerged in the mid-'80s, to the pressures of being the general's wife. Her family and friends sensibly reject the notion. "This is a medical condition that flares up and gets treated, the way a bad back gets treated," says Michael. "It's not central to her life." She is warm and outgoing, an attentive listener. She knows everybody but has just a few well-chosen close friends, most of them wives of current or former leaders of the defense or national-security...