Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that sounds like an awfully broad agenda, it's because Verba intends it to be. "Rather than looking at things on a nickle and dime basis," he says, he will look at "the whole structure of [academic] rules to see which ones are inexplicable or inconsistent." Verba says the "full package of proposals" he will eventually present will likely address topics such as honors requirements, make-up exams, regulations for adding and dropping courses, and other issues that turn up in the Handbook of College Rules...
...black child or two, Jesse would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash around. Was the sun always shining? Was the air always spiced by yellow pine and morning glories? There were even two movie theaters, the Strand and the Pastime. Helms and his pals, for a dime apiece, marveled in the dark at a serial parade of he-men and helpless heroines in peril...
Returning to his mobile home in Austin, the Republican representative was struck in the left arm by three buckshot pellets from a twelve-gauge shotgun, and his car was riddled with dime-sized holes. At various times since then, Martin, 29, has said his arm was raised to protect himself, to yawn and to check the time. Wayne House, then a legislative aide to Martin, took him to a hospital. But even then, House started to wonder: Had Martin staged his own shooting...
...downtown Manhattan favored by artists, to a larger but equally unpretentious place just to the north, in Little Italy. Streep is now and forever a New Yorker, without a trace of a tan or of West Coast show-biz gloss. She bounces into a magazine photo session, wearing a dime-store sun dress and dark glasses held together by a safety pin. She is a fan of egg creams (a New York soft drink made of seltzer, chocolate syrup, milk and, of course, no eggs), and a resolute rider of subways; if the middle class and the rich...
...Nickle-Dime Raid...