Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former ball girls and drive her and her mother to a dermatologist to have the girl's acne checked. Jackson pays the bill for the examination and any follow-up care. "When you leave your friends," he says, "they should feel better-whether you gave them a dime or a dollar, ten minutes of your time, looked at them with a smile or just told them they looked great." In carrying out his philosophy of wealth ("If you've got money, spread it around"), Jackson finances a home for delinquent boys in Tempe, Ariz., where he lives...
...often easier than recovering from the insurance company. Because blame for an accident must be determined before claims are settled in most states, motorists frequently face costly court battles and years of delay before receiving compensation for their pains. One-fourth of all accident victims never collect a dime. Last week Congress took a first step to ward remedying that situation. After heated debate, the Senate passed (53-42) and sent to the House a national no-fault auto insurance bill...
...What is it, Stevie?" the folks would ask as they dropped a coin on the kitchen table. Though only five, Stevie would chirp right back: "Dime" ... "Nickel" ..."Quarter"-whatever it was. That was more of a feat than it might seem. Steveland Morris had been blind since birth. He had also been unstoppable. By the time he was two, spoons in hand, Stevie was beating away rhythmically on pans and tabletops, or on dime-store cardboard drums. At nine, he was singing and playing harmonica up and down the Detroit ghetto streets, and being eased out of the church choir...
They are also more profitable. Atari executives report that Pong games frequently take in $200 to $300 per week. Each game costs a quarter, v. only a dime for most pinball machines; the total take from all the machines now in play is estimated at more than $900 million annually...
...door, where a judge or banker could have lived. The columns had warped with rot and cracked open. In one of these houses lived a crazy old lady of the Capote/Faulkner stamp, her house full of wilted memories and flowers, whose special craziness was keeping turtles, five or six dime-store turtles in crystalline plastic dishes. She lived in a large place with a cupola and wouldn't let anyone in, even the local landmarks society who wanted to help preserve the house from destruction and her from eviction...