Word: dime
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...life. Once in Nixon's White House I listened to Moynihan expound on Schumpeterian economics while the snout of an opened champagne bottle peeked out of a desk drawer. "Pat's great," Nixon once told me, "as long as you get to him before noon." For my dime, he was great after noon or any other time, following the Churchillian example of being able for a few crucial years to get more out of alcohol than it got out of him. I once ran into him at the palatial Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., working...
...mass graves? Will they find a way toward reconciliation, Sunni and Shi'a, Arab and Kurd, as every hopeful official set as a necessary step on a path towards true peace? The world waits for a new chapter and history prepares, once again, to turn on a dime. --With reporting by Brian Bennett/Baghdad, Michael Ware/al-Dawr, Phil Zabriskie/Tikrit and John F. Dickerson and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...mass graves? Will they find a way toward reconciliation, Sunni and Shi?a, Arab and Kurd, as every hopeful official set as a necessary step on a path toward true peace? The world waits for a new chapter and history prepares, once again, to turn on a dime...
Last month, a group of lawmakers began pushing for a redesign of the dime, swapping the profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt ’04, the man who led America through the Great Depression and World War II, for Ronald Reagan, the man who led us through the ’80s. The bill has gained 80 co-sponsors so far, including practically the entire House GOP establishment. “Tax-cut and spend” Republicans—who’ve apparently been unsatisfied simply giving away the federal budget to the wealthiest Americans?...
...NGOs. As director of Deutsche Bank's Community Development Group, Mahmood is also using a generous safety net to attract skeptical investors. With a so-called first-loss cushion of 50%, his soon-to-be-launched $50 million debt fund could lose $25 million before commercial investors lose a dime. By employing what he calls a belt-and-suspenders approach, Mahmood says, "we're making it difficult to say no to these opportunities...