Word: dime
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...level playing field"?that is to say, a U.S. energy company could not acquire one of its competitors in China. Both points were, in fact, true. But earlier this summer leaks began appearing in the financial press?and word was spread around Washington?that there wasn't "one dime of [Chinese] government money" involved in the deal, as one of CNOOC's advisers said to TIME in June. A CNOOC source who was trying to make the deal happen said this argument was "simply preposterous. I mean, it just wasn't true. But for three weeks this was the line...
Back at Grace Chapel, the middle school worship band is finishing its set. Tristan plays effortlessly through the chords and stops on a dime for an a cappella finale. A hundred kids in shorts and flip-flops shift their weight from side to side and sing, "Holy, holy, holy ..." Youth pastor Dietz smiles at his band. "Sounds good," he says. "I think God loves this." --With reporting by Adam Pitluk/Plano
...warned: this is not the Altman of M * A * S * H and Nashville, the funky satirist with an ear for low-life Americana. It is the European Altman, who in Images and 3 Women and Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean threw sensitive women into the nightmare zone between past and present, reality and fantasy. In Fool for Love, he situates May's sad childhood literally next door to her fated present and sets Eddie's monologue memories colliding with the flashback images that accompany them. You can have some cerebral fun with this game...
...popularity of it. Because it will sell. That's why I chose westerns originally. In the '50s, you could sell a western almost anywhere. The better pulp magazines--Dime Western, Zane Grey's Western, Ten-Story Western--paid 2 a word, which, for a 5,000-word story, was 100 bucks. In the '50s, that wasn't too bad, and anyway, I had a day job at the time writing Chevrolet ads. I would get up in the morning at 5 and write fiction for two hours. I had a rule that I had to start writing before...
...drum,” he says, recalling the dime drive. “I think the highlight of the campaign was a picture published in The Crimson and the Boston Globe of us parading a cow in front of Memorial Hall with a sign that says, ‘We need your hide...