Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take Julia from medical school at Oxford to a workers' community in Vienna. The women are separated through most of their lives; but Julia's need for Hellman's aid in her anti-fascist activities prior to World War II reunite them, with repercussions that even a writer of dime store spy fiction would envy...
...personal air of courtliness, especially to women. As a manager, he leaves operating details to underlings and sticks close to - financial matters, stacking trust records in cardboard boxes in his office. He lives frugally, owns only four suits, and long ago he bought up a batch of cheap dime-store spectacles with progressively thicker lenses that he keeps in his office safe. After each working day, Ball holds court at his apartment, downing ginger ale and bourbon and spinning yarns for his cronies. It is a life that suits him, and until he "crosses the creek," he intends...
...take Julia from medical school at Oxford to a workers' community in Vienna. The women are separated through most of their lives; but Julia's need for Hellman's aid in her anti-fascist activities prior to World War II reunite them, with repercussions that even a writer of dime state spy fiction would envy...
...department has a bad reputation of trying to nickel-and-dime people," McCall said, adding that the issue has been "blown out of proportion...
...incursion. Admits FBI Computer Expert James Barko: "Many cases are discovered completely by accident," like noticing suspicious high living by low-paid clerks. After raiding a New York bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized shuffling of funds among little-used accounts. Even if caught, a computer thief may not be prosecuted. Fearing embarrassing publicity, some firms merely fire the offender and absorb the losses...