Word: dimes
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...photographer, Puttnam never attended college or film school. He worked as a talent agent for photographers and directors between 1966 and 1968. Then, joining with Agent Sandy Lieberson, he produced his first feature film, Melody. Since then, Puttnam has made 28 pictures, including documentaries (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), fast-paced sagas (Midnight Express and The Killing Fields) and lyrical features (Local Hero...
Lewis says the paper "is tending to underplaythe thing" because of the prominent magazinearticle, and the University's decision to portraythe 350th--unlike the 300th--as an event withoutgreat reverberations beyond Harvard Yard. "Ourproblem is figuring out how we can report thisseriously without covering every nickle and dime,"he says...
...until, to meet the revenue needs of World War II, the top rate on the highest incomes was a confiscatory 94%. Among those offended: a movie actor named Ronald Reagan who had just begun to earn big bucks. His anger at discovering that he could keep less than a dime of each additional dollar he earned played a part in his postwar conversion from New Deal Democrat to conservative Republican...
...contrast to most money drives which rely on large donations, the HURI has raised funds from a large pool of Ukrainians on a nickel-and-dime basis. Several years ago, more than 15,000 members of the Ukrainian community raised $1.8 million to endow three University chairs for Ukrainian language, literature and history...
...door. I was just about to say "yes," when I realized he was pointing at me; so I retreated very slowly, hands in the open, onto the street. Something similar or worse happened in every store I tried, until I ended up settling for three quarters and a dime, and that only at the price of prostrating myself in front of an entire restaurant...