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...fund the war in Iraq that his aides had said could be paid for with Iraqi oil revenue. It bombed. There was a firestorm over the cost-an idea that seems quaint given the hundreds of billions that Iraq and Katrina will end up on the taxpayer's dime. A year later, he choppered from the White House to the Army War College in Pennsylvania to sell a war in Iraq that was losing support at home. And he did the same at North Carolina's Ft. Bragg earlier this year. Neither speech seemed to help...
...Ting drew first blood by deflecting a pass from captain midfielder Jen McDavitt, and then converted a dime from freshman midfielder Tami Jafar...
...fixed-rate loan is an idiot," she says. And, if you're holding onto real estate strictly as an investment, she believes it's probably the right time to cash in. It's not just rate hikes that concern Rockower. "Interest rates don't have to go up one dime for the market to collapse," she says. "All those teaser rates and no-money-down deals that people used to buy property are now starting to adjust, and it's causing real havoc...
...level playing field"?that is to say, a U.S. energy company could not acquire one of its competitors in China. Both points were, in fact, true. But earlier this summer leaks began appearing in the financial press?and word was spread around Washington?that there wasn't "one dime of [Chinese] government money" involved in the deal, as one of CNOOC's advisers said to TIME in June. A CNOOC source who was trying to make the deal happen said this argument was "simply preposterous. I mean, it just wasn't true. But for three weeks this was the line...
Back at Grace Chapel, the middle school worship band is finishing its set. Tristan plays effortlessly through the chords and stops on a dime for an a cappella finale. A hundred kids in shorts and flip-flops shift their weight from side to side and sing, "Holy, holy, holy ..." Youth pastor Dietz smiles at his band. "Sounds good," he says. "I think God loves this." --With reporting by Adam Pitluk/Plano