Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Autobiograhical writing demeans our profession," Marius wrote recently in an article published in the book Redrawing the Boundaries. "While our colleagues in history, literature and the other liberal arts are asking for writing about the world out there, we often look like a crowd of amateur therapists delivering dime-store psychology to adolescents...
Walsh allegedly defrauded Dime Savings Bank of New York of about $8 million for condominium developments in Massachusetts. He was indicted last October on 59 counts of conspiracy, bank fraud and making false statements to a federally insured bank...
Bubbles, Can You Spare a Dime...
...ever come back to earth tailfirst, although similar landings have been made on Mars and the moon. "My jaw dropped," says Tom Williams, director of communications for McDonnell Douglas, the defense contractor that built the odd-looking rocket. "I'd never seen a space vehicle stop on a dime before. It was like something in a monster movie...
...keep pace. Buy a car that gets 23 miles to the gallon, say, instead of 20, and you've beaten the gas tax for five years. Uncle Sam raises his lousy $70 billion over those five years, but your cost of driving a mile rises not one thin dime...