Word: dime
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...Once you park your car at the college," says Marsha Ulrich of Mohnton, Pa., "you don't have to spend another dime or drive anywhere." She and her husband James, both teachers, have taken their children to the campus for five years, and this summer they are going back with their 17-year-old. "It's a great vacation for me," says Marsha, "because I never have to decide what or when we're going to eat." The shorefront college has its own garden to supply the cafeteria with fresh vegetables and fruit, and many families pick blueberries and bring...
Multiple Gores: Gore Number One (abundantly qualified by experience, brains, knowledge) coexists with Gore Number Two (needy kid with daddy complex, beta male) coexists with Gore Number Three (ruthless political gut fighter and truth-bender) coexists with Gore Number Four (Boy Scout, bright as a new dime, with merit badges in environment and policy wonking) coexists with Gore Number Five (the one you saw at the Buddhist temple...
...Perez admitted that he and his partner had shot an unarmed, handcuffed 19-year-old and planted a rifle on him to cover it up. And then in 2,000 pages of riveting testimony, Perez yanked back a curtain on a dark, dime-store-novel world in which cops routinely frame the innocent by planting ("throwing down") drugs and guns, smack around ("thump") citizens on the street for kicks and perjure themselves ("join the liar's club") to get convictions...
Friends of the Arts is hiring students to handle box office sales for its summer concert series, which includes the Long Island Summer Festival, the Dime Jazz Festival and the Beethoven Festival...
...than a tiara and sash, and the title Mrs. Multi-Millionaire is more desirable than Miss America. (A whip-smart friend pointed out that it would have been a mean little joke if the man's actual last name was Multi-Millionaire--a man who didn't have a dime to his name.) Watching the show was like watching a train wreck in slow motion--from the hostess dressed in ill-fitting gold, sequined spandex (my co-editor points out that no one should bare their shoulders at a religious event) to the millionaire's family and friends rating...