Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wings are on right; they are supposed to sweep forward. They are mounted at the tail end and pitched ahead at a 35° angle. The configuration increases lift, reduces drag, prevents stall outs, and allows the X-29A to turn on a dime at supersonic speeds. Just behind the cockpit are gill-like projections called canards, the French word for ducks. Indeed, the plane resembles a mallard in full flight...
...bill provides tough new methods to collect child support from delinquent divorced parents. Less than half of the 5 million families who are owed support payments ever receive the full amount; a quarter never see a dime. Now deadbeats will have a portion of their salaries withheld or their property attached. Child-support debts will be reported to credit agencies, and the IRS will deduct past-due payments from tax refunds...
...hauled out a fishing-tackle box that contained his magic tricks. That is his ritual these days. He waved a black wand. At his cry of "Hah!" it turned into a red flag. "Pretty good?" A white cone snapped into life as a handkerchief. Balls appeared and vanished. A dime disappeared into a penny...
...Government, especially in the State Department, welcomed the report, hoping that it would strengthen their hand against the Pentagon. Burt encountered Aspin at a party and told him that the coalition that was forming between the Scowcroft commission and Congress "may yet get this Administration off the dime in arms control. Just up." keep the pressure The MX survived a number of votes, but by diminishing margins. By last summer, White House officials were hinting to key Congressmen that in addition to the lifting of the 850 ceiling on launchers, a number of the other more unrealistic features of START...
Leonard began by writing Apache-and-cavalry stories for pulps like Dime Western while working in an advertising agency: "I'd get up early, write, then go crank out zingy copy for Chevrolet trucks." By 1967 he had sold his novel Hombre to Hollywood and was liberated from office routine. One divorce, five children and 20 novels later, he arrived at his pared-down adrenal style. By now, he feels, he deserves the signed photograph of Hemingway that decorates his study. Says he: "I learned to write from For Whom the Bell Tolls." But, he concedes, "my attitude...