Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the car on a test drive. Armed with the results, the would-be buyer can renegotiate or reconsider. Says Patrick Ludwick, founder and president of the Dallas-based company: "Normally the engine or the transmission doesn't fall out. It's the smaller items that will nickel and dime a person to death." A poll of Ludwick's first 1,000 customers found an average saving of $600 a purchase...
When Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said that 20,000 to 30,000 American deaths would be an acceptable price for toppling Saddam, you can bet your last dime that he wasn't including anyone in the Lugar family in that calculation...
Self-proclaimed political experts are, as any Massachusetts citizen knows, a dime a dozen. There's no tax on insights, and pithy political sayings are free to all who can think them...
...welfare lines loom over my horizon as I realize the brutal truth: I am a humanities major, and I am, a dime a dozen...
...They have a strong marriage, happy kids, low expectations and high hopes. They have plenty of work ethic. What they do not have is enough money to live as they would like. It is these families whose entire household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises by a dime a gallon, whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling, whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession. Savings and security are unaffordable luxuries; so are adequate health care, sufficient heat in the winter, a meal in a restaurant, a night...