Word: dime
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...spent this past summer in Ecuador—on the dime of a Class of 1936 alum whose two sons also attended Harvard. A Class of 1946 alum and his Class of ’52 brother endowed a fund that defrayed my tuition costs sophomore year; they donated to Harvard after several of their children graduated from the College...
...privacy in a locker room because the room had pipes that required occasional maintenance. (The need to service the pipes was enough for the court to let the employer use video surveillance.) The wave of the future seems to be radio-frequency identification, a transmitter smaller than a dime that can be embedded in anything from ID cards to key fobs to hospital bracelets (to safeguard newborns, for instance). Now consider Compliance Control's HyGenius system, which detects restaurant employees' handwashing and soap usage with wireless communication from clothing tags. Skip the soap, and you are in hot water...
...disasters. Several communities accepted, and the government, in partnership with the state, bought back 25,000 properties. The thousands of acres left behind were converted into wetlands, which act like a sponge in storms. In 1995 the floods came again. "And guess what?" says Witt. "We never spent one dime on responding. Nobody lost everything they worked...
...only a small percentage of movie profits, especially on DVDs. "If we wanted to control our own destiny, we'd have to make our own movies," says Michael Helfant, president of Marvel Studios. That was a leap Marvel's risk-averse board was loath to make on its own dime...
...ocean liner” in trying to highlight the difficulties in changing the system’s course. Nolan has argued that the system is small—with only one high school—and that it can be “turned around on a dime...