Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several alternatives to the "Brother, can you spare a dime" scenario could arise. It is unlikely that beggars will purchase credit card readers so that their daily clients can simply slide through for a $.25 transfer. Even if the technology was easily portable, too many methods of perpetrating electronic fraud exist to make the system trustworthy...
...rapid-fire repeal of a 1988 law to ensure catastrophic coverage under Medicare began with the words, "Your Federal Taxes for 1989 May Increase by Up to $1,600 . . . Just Because You Are Over the Age of 65" -- even though 60% of all seniors wouldn't have paid a dime more in taxes. The tone of cool reason favored by the Founding Fathers is similarly lacking from this Jerry Falwell mailing: "American troops are again facing madman Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf -- but the enemy here at home may be much more dangerous! . . . Homosexuals are Bill Clinton...
...staff is content to point out the Republican party's hypocrisy for not taking Social Security benefits. True consistency would entail major cuts in the Social Security program. And since our generation won't see a dime anyway, the Republicans have a duty to consider seriously the elimination of this bloated welfare program for the elderly...
...Some Harvard students] have spit on me, some have thrown their snot rags on me," Juan says. "There were some female Harvard students who told their boyfriends not to give me a dime when they were going to give me a dollar. [The girls] said 'Let him eat cake,' you know, the famous words of Marie Antoinette...
Slasher. The word evokes images of the nineteenth-century mass murderer Jack the Ripper, sporting a shiny silver knife and a bloodthirsty eye. Stories of the legendary killer still linger into the late decades of the twentieth century, pervading dime store novels and Grade-B horror movies...