Word: dime
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...President complains privately that just as the media clamored for the war to be "over in a weekend," they now expect him to turn the economy around on a dime. He may be irked by such expectations, but he wants to look as if he's trying to meet them. Voters soured on the first President Bush less because the economy was stagnant in 1992 than because he didn't seem to care that people were hurting. His son won't make that mistake. "If he's working hard to get a growth package enacted, that's more important than...
Which isn't to say music executives are sitting around wringing their hands. It takes time for any corporation to recognize that its universe has changed, and major labels don't exactly turn on a dime. For Martin Bandier, chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing, the dime dropped three years ago when his 11-year-old son Max gave him a present: his 100 favorite Motown songs. "I said, 'But we have hundreds of copies!'" Bandier recalls. "He said, 'This is in a different place--on my hard drive.' It was scary." Bandier immediately convened a war council...
...Richard is an extremely intelligent, thoughtful character on stage, and on the turn of a dime has schemes and ideas, and is in his own dark way very witty,” Herrera says...
...ever made a dime underestimating the staying power of the American shopper. Despite the sluggish economy, personal income has been rising. Low interest rates have enabled consumers to borrow and spend without raising their monthly interest expense. And homeowners who are locking in the lowest fixed mortgage rates in two generations will be well insulated from rising rates as the economy recovers...
...program in 2004. It's also unclear how many flyers will sign up. Future sessions will require them to pay their own travel, room and board, and they all must return to Glyncoe or its equivalent facility in New Mexico twice a year for requalification, again on their own dime...