Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind in dismantling of thousands of nuclear weapons called for under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The apparent reason: "internal turmoil and old thinking," Perry said, as well as the high cost. In response, he said, the U.S. will keep its long-range missiles till Russia gets off the dime. BTW: Russia still has 25,000 nukes -- enough to destroy the world many times over...
...youthful alienation. Then, at 24, he crashed his Porsche Spyder 550 on a California highway and died. That was nearly 40 years ago, and it marked the birth of Saint Jimmy, Punk Martyr. His life and death have inspired films (September 30, 1955), plays (Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) and dozens of songs. Visits to Dean's Fairmount gravesite have become as much a part of celebrity mythology as trips to Graceland or Jim Morrison's plot in Paris' Pere-Lachaise cemetery. Next year there will be a big-time Hollywood biopic; every male star...
Every Nickel, Dime and Dollar...
...count on every nickel, dime and dollar," she says of the Jimmy Fund...
...person, Bolton is cheerful and full of surprises. One minute she may be talking about the barbecued pigs' feet and rabbit cake she cooked for Humphreys ("She wouldn't take a dime for her work"); the next, she is pulling a ringing cellular phone from her handbag and telling the caller she is in a meeting. Recently she told her current employer that she needed a few weeks off for personal business. The boss doesn't know that she is a published writer and has to go off on a pseudonymous national publicity tour. "Can you believe it?" asks...