Word: dime
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...example, Langer and neurosurgeon Henry Brem devised the first dime-size chemotherapy wafers to treat brain cancer. These wafers release powerful cancer-fighting drugs slowly in the site where a tumor has been removed in order to kill any cancer cells the surgeon has missed. By confining the drugs to the site of the tumor, the effects on other organs are minimized--always a major consideration in chemotherapy. The same concept has since been applied to prostate, spinal and ovarian cancers...
...because they don't believe in copyright protection, but because too much of it is bad for business. "This is not the make-everything-free crowd pushing this," says Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and one of the earliest e-book publishers. "I made every dime I ever had from selling copyrighted material. The question is, Which do you make illegal: breaking and entering, or the locksmith's tool...
...SPARE A DIME? The U.S. jobless rate is stable at 4.5%, but other signs of woe persist...
...President involved at the start," says a White House official. "You set the table and insert him at key points in the process to get key things done, to make key calls to certain people [to tell them it's] time to get off the dime, time to hold hands and jump...
...away the summer?s best popcorn-movie blockbuster - though that?s not going very far at all, considering that this is the season that saw the theatrical release of "Spy Kids: Special Edition." But good-looking, action-packed summer popcorn movies should, at least, be a dime a dozen, and left to the Michael Bays of the world. The directors who happen to like scripts about wacky misfits who save the world or wearily heroic everymen who are just trying to get home to their wife and kids (but have to save the world first...