Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, other players of far less proficiency receive in excess of $100,000 per year. These men are cashing in on the owners' paranoia that all their players will desert for greener wallets. The wave they are riding will soon break when management realizes that .250 hitters are a dime a dozen, certainly not worth $150,000 per year...
Mayor Frank Rizzo's response to the Transport Workers Union: "Not one more dime...
Another set of calculations would take effect in 1981, when many forecasters expect gasoline consumption, which now runs at roughly 294 million gallons a day, to start declining. Then the tax would be raised another nickel or maybe even a dime for every year in which gas usage failed to drop at least 2% from the base period. The tax would reach its maximum in 1985 and not increase after that. Says White House Aide Stuart Eizenstat: "We don't want to make the level of consumption so unrealistically unachievable that the tax automatically will go into effect each...
...like to have a dime for all the promises that stoney lovers make when it gets late, sure it hurts (still it feels pretty good) to be livin' in the city of the one night stands--where the nighttime makes it easy to feel crazy...
...team up, and the case of the missing puss-puss predictably leads them into a tangled web of blackmail, murder and all the other sordid goings-on that the back of any good dime novel promises. This set-up isn't half bad, pairing a slowed-down gum shoe with a hanger-on from the age of Aquarius. As a mere thematic gimmick, however, it's not too much less than half bad, and risks making you wish that directors would cut out these nostalgic and unimaginative throw-backs to the classics. But extra dimensions fast begin to fill...