Word: dime
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...research subjects would be endangered.“When interrogated, I never divulged real names, and instead used the fictive names concocted beforehand,” said Bakshi, who was doing research on political propaganda in the country. Getting to a country like Zimbabwe on Harvard’s dime is one thing. The University only last year loosened restrictions on a number of countries, including Iran, Israel, and Lebanon. But a second hurdle students face is getting approval from the Human Subjects Committee on what they can and can’t ask.“In different parts...
...blink of an eye I’m in New York, buying movies and room service on the network’s dime. I’m wracked with nerves. I can barely sleep...
...have been on campus for only a month, and yet I already have a drawer full of loose change. I grant that the quarters, dimes, and nickels come in handy for photocopiers or vending machines, but every day I find myself staring down at Abraham Lincoln and asking, “What am I going to do with you?” The reply is always silence, predictably—but also appropriately, because even the animate among us can’t come up with a good answer. Indeed, it is high time to abolish the penny from...
...business in Leawood, Kans., recalls growing up in Bible Grove, Ill., with a population of fewer than 100, and the thrill of going to the nearby big town every Saturday, where he joined the line of kids waiting to ride the bucking bronco in front of the five-and-dime. Recently Lewis bought his very own pony, Nellie, from Kiddie Rides USA, a Denver outfit that purchases old rides, refurbishes them and sells them on its website. Lewis had Nellie branded with his initials, and she's now the pride of his rec room...
...disability now. I put on a hook for Thanksgiving dinner and never took it off. It twisted into the end of my myoelectric prosthesis and turned 360? like an electronic hand. Only it worked better. Two silver talons opened like forceps, locked on to items and could pick a dime off the floor. Occasionally I screwed on a plastic, clawlike device known by the German word for grabber--Greifer--to move heavy objects, and I contemplated the long list of attachments--garden tools, spatulas, hammers and pool-shooting bridges--that were available by special order. I usually sported the hook...