Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indictment was the result of a two-year FBI investigation. Although the charges accuse Walsh of defrauding Dime Savings Bank of New York, McMullin said "our investigation is continuing in this matter." But he would not reveal which banks were being investigated in connection with Walsh...
Walsh was one of 19 people indicted for allegedly defrauding Dime Savings Bank of New York of about $8 million for condominium developments in Massachusetts...
Walsh and the other suspects allegedly told Dime they had made large down payments on the real estate projects so the bank would make loans to unqualified borrowers, according to the indictments...
Compared with the Pentagon's gargantuan overall budget, that hardly amounts to a dime's worth of difference. Neither candidate devotes much public attention to military issues; neither has been heard to utter the phrase "peace dividend" in campaign speeches. And with good reason. In this recession-blighted election year, cutting troop levels and slashing Pentagon budgets can mean higher unemployment. The formerly onerous burden of military spending now looks to presidential -- and congressional -- aspirants very much like a jobs-and-votes program. Clinton hews closely to the Administration line on defense for other reasons as well: to pre-empt...
...been a case study in guile, ruthlessness and careful timing. The clash over the Agriculture Ministry is the fifth time the allies have had to cock their guns to ensure compliance with U.N. sanctions; each time in the past Saddam backed down. "He is trying to nickel-and-dime us until he can erode the sanctions and regain his sovereignty," says Phebe Marr of the National Defense University in Washington...