Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...
...create a new market for information, based on people purchasing info by the bit, for tiny sums of money. Want to see yesterday's front page of, say, a newspaper called the Wonkonkoma Times? It will cost you 2¢. Want to see this minute's headlines? That's a dime. Such small transactions are uneconomical for credit-card companies but essential to Net commerce: if 10 million people are on the network and a million of them buy today's headlines, that's $100,000. The info-mall concept is where the Web is heading too. Microsoft just might...
...figure in the debate is Richard Parsons, the former chairman of Dime Bank Corp. who was named to the No. 2 position of Time Warner president last October. Parsons, an African-American and a Republican, is reportedly trying to persuade Levin to make some accommodation that would defuse the issue. But company insiders say a more important move may have been the replacement in May of Warner Music chief Robert Morgado with Michael Fuchs, Levin's longtime colleague at HBO. Company sources say Fuchs' appointment was at least partly motivated by Levin's perception that Warner's fiercely independent music...
...things that strikes people right away about him is how closely he identifies with Harvard and [its] resources," Fitzsimmons says. "He wouldn't think of wasting a dime of Harvard and Radcliffe's resources because it really is personal...
...should Republicans be out on the hustings so soon after the midterm elections? We all know that they think. What we don't know is whether they mean it or not. Nothing that is said at a luncheon in New Hampshire makes a dime's worth of difference when the show so clearly is in Washington and the keynote figure in the party is Newt Gingrich. A lot of mouths are moving, but his is the voice we hear. Senator Dole has been in Washington so long that all his edges have worn off--when asked about burning issues...