Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost millions to maintain. Perhaps because of that, the suddenly penny- pinching Saudis have been making life miserable for foreign companies accustomed to more opulent treatment. "It's horrible now," says one American contractor in Riyadh. "They don't pay, there's little new business, and they nickel-and-dime you to death with inspections and rules...
...background stakes in Children of Light are, by comparison, inconsequential. A movie budgeted at a mere $7 million will go down the tubes if Lu Anne somehow manages to play her affliction out to its final scene and destroy herself. Whether Walker lives or dies hardly makes a dime's worth of difference to anyone, including him. Stone's saga of these two heedless souls is both enthralling and a little disappointing. The conclusion hardly matters. All the fun, most of it wonderfully nasty, is to be had in getting there...
...Army General David Jones, a former Chairman of the JCS, has stated, "The corporate advice provided by the JCS is not crisp, timely, very useful or very influential." At budget-writing time, the Joint Chiefs usually present a wish list to the Secretary of Defense and fight for every dime. More often than not, say critics, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's response has been to give each service pretty much what it wants...
Hanford, Calif., is a farm community, the kind of place where people know each other by name and trust each other by nature. "You can go downtown without a dime in your pocket, do your shopping and come back to pay later," says City Councilman J. Brent Madill. "It's not faceless like L.A." In any town, the brutal killing of a teenage girl leaves a deep mark, but in Hanford the wound remains, 24 years after the crime. And now the U.S. Supreme Court has rubbed the wound open again all these years later...
...children with the woman I was married to. But when I walked into the hospital, Eileen tells the doctors that somebody not me is the father. She put down the name of some guy in New Jersey. Can you beat that? I told her she wasn't getting a dime until Michael had my name, and I went to court to make it legal. I could have murdered her then. She killed my fatherhood from the beginning, the first born...