Word: dime
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...local government thinks it knows why: too many aggressive beggars on China Beach. The Danang People's Committee has launched a campaign urging residents to rat out any panhandlers they see, even setting up a 24-hour telephone hot line for snitching. Drop a dime about a raggedy man begging for change anywhere in the city and gain a reward of 200,000 dong (about $13). "Beggars are impolite, an annoyance to visitors," says Nguyen Hung Hiep, head of the Danang Social Benefit Bureau. "We want to keep our city beautiful and civilized...
...strike is quite impressive. The workers are showing true solidarity and commitment by striking together—spanning different unions and job types, crossing language barriers. But the unions on strike are indeed involved in similar fights for respect and recognition from a school intent to nickel and dime its employees. This coalition of workers, along with the support of students and the community, poses a powerful impetus for change among Yale’s administration...
Listen to government officials in Washington and London, chat with members of the alphabet soup of Iraqi exile groups, and you can come away thinking that such conversations are a dime a dozen. And they may be. In small ways and big ones, the U.S. and its allies are working like termites to undermine the rickety foundations of Saddam's rule. As the U.N. weapons inspectors started their work inside Iraq and President George W. Bush conferred with possible coalition partners at meetings in Prague and Moscow, it was easy to miss a story taking place behind the scenes. Whatever...
...unlike Tolman, the Green Party candidate has never seen a dime of Clean Elections funds...
...bioweapons experience who was frustrated by how little attention the U.S. government was paying to the threat these weapons pose. Lake likes that theory a lot better than the ones that blame al-Qaeda or Saddam Hussein. But he doesn't agree with those who tried to drop a dime on Steven Hatfill. He's the former Army scientist whose house has been repeatedly searched and who was famously described by Attorney General John Ashcroft as a "person of interest" (there are about 25 others, according to the FBI). Lake is convinced that Hatfill must have an unimpeachable alibi...