Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year. She received a $255 death benefit from the federal Social Security Administration--exactly $5 more, she discovered, than her grandmother got 31 years ago when her husband died. "I was absolutely stunned. I mean, that didn't even buy embalming fluid," she says. "It was like getting a dime tip after you've worked for an hour for a table of 15." Instead came food and prayers, in a humbling wave, from her friends and neighbors. "We take care of our own," she says...
Clinton and Starr together at last! There's not a dime's worth of difference between those two; they simply gave in to different temptations. Perhaps both should be censured for their callous unwillingness to consider the consequences of their actions. In any case, your cover could facilitate a rather satisfactory game of darts. JAMES A. BLAIR Cumberland...
...more the occasion for retrospective moral judgments than any other biographical canvas should be," Guralnick writes, switching quickly from slowdown to full stop. "I know of no sadder story." Any of the black bluesmen Guralnick loves and writes about so well could tell him a dozen before a dropped dime hit the floor. But no bluesman, and few entertainers of any kind, has managed to achieve the sheer dimension of Presley's story. Just as Elvis' girth fascinated fans and the press during his last, misbegotten years, so too it is the outsize scale of Presley's life that makes...
...believed Clinton's denials, she could still foresee the toll. For 22 years they had worked to get to this point, a liberated, second-term presidency with a merry economy, a contented public and the time to spend on the issues she cared about. Instead, every last dime of their joint political capital was going to have to be invested simply in surviving in office...
...other hand, the three leading commercial long distance service providers, AT&T, Sprint and MCI WorldCom, all advertise dime-per-minute rates for residential customers. AT&T offers a nine-cent per minute plan for customers who will receive their bills online and MCI WorldCom recently launched a plan offering domestic calls for a nickel-a-minute on Sundays...