Word: dime
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There aren't any in Washington, either. Maybe that's why the Democrats picked L.A. - so Mr. Clinton could put a little variety in his diet while he's still on the taxpayers' dime...
...dime-size wafer, not expected before 2025, would store micronutrients in hundreds of mini-reservoirs. After the wafer is swallowed, built-in sensors would respond to various chemicals, acids and proteins in the G.I.'s gut signaling hunger. A resulting small electrical charge would dissolve a thin gold cap on a reservoir, releasing the needed nutrients...
...husband in a Jimmy Buffett video called Who's the Blonde Stranger? Graham confessed that he had perhaps shown poor judgment. But that wasn't the problem. "They were concerned I hadn't listed any payment on my financial-disclosure form," Graham says. "But Jimmy never paid me a dime...
...justification for building bigger locks is simple: time is money. Supporters, including farmers and such commodity heavyweights as Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and ConAgra, say the time saved on a trip down the river could generate an extra nickel or dime of profit on every $2 bushel of corn floating down the Mississippi. "I produce about 100,000 bushels of grain a year, and 5[cents] on each one is a pretty good chunk of change that goes straight to my bottom line," says Gregory Guenther of Belleville, Ill. The river, 22 miles from his 1,000-acre farm...
...first thought of the merger, Bush laughed and said, "Great minds think alike. At about the same time, Al and I were both saying to ourselves, 'Look, this election may be close. Now, I'm a compassionate conservative, and he's a tough-love bleeding heart. Is there a dime's worth of difference? Well, maybe a dime's, but not a quarter...