Word: dime
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about the plan delicately tested the idea on conservative opinion makers; after the President's speech, officials and allies such as Ohio Congressman Rob Portman blitzed conservative radio stations. But privately few are buying Bush's reassurances that the new operation will "enhance operational efficiencies" without consuming an additional dime of the federal budget. Says a senior House Republican aide: "I don't know how they can say it with a straight face...
...face on billboards around Manila and running a two-page newspaper ad offering jobs at three times the going salaries. He ordered Citibank pamphlets photocopied, its logo replaced with that of the new "Bank of Ogami." He demanded fat personal loans, says Inoue, threw parties on the bank's dime, and had Genta Ogami figurines created as gifts for customers...
...will leave Cambridge as a Harvard graduate this June. Yet, I will not give a dime to my alma mater until it takes responsibility, as quickly and easily as it does the credit, for the women Radcliffe entrusted to its care...
...federal government’s contention that inhibiting individuals’ access to education somehow constitutes just punishment for drug-related offenses. Rapists, murderers and other violent criminals, upon their acceptance to any university, still receive full consideration for federal financial aid, yet teenagers guilty of possessing a dime bag of marijuana are not. In its effort to wage war on drugs, the government has lost its sense of perspective on the relative severity of crimes and seems determined to single out drug offenders for permanent punishment. While thieves may spend time incarcerated, they are free to build...
Employees got shares of stock worth a dime apiece. And every week Stack held "huddles" in which everyone from top managers to janitors pored over financial data. Those who couldn't read the data got training. That helped them make day-to-day decisions such as whether a mechanic should repair an engine's connecting rod or install a new one. He could compare his wage, $26 an hour, with the cost of a new rod, $45, and determine that it was worth repairing the old one only if he could do it in 90 minutes or less...