Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though they may sympathize with the tragedy of the underclass, many middle- class blacks are not prepared to remain inside the ghetto. They point out that they have worked hard to spare themselves and their families deprivation. Typical is Richard Parsons, president of the Dime Savings Bank in New York City. "Why should I live in Harlem?" asks Parsons, who resides in a wealthy Westchester County, N.Y., suburb. "If given a choice between unsafe streets and poor schools on the one hand, and peace and quiet and quality schools on the other, who wouldn't pick the best neighborhood...
Harvard's all-male a cappella singing group, the Din and Tonics, hits the stage at Sanders Theater. The Dins will present several new arrangements, including "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" and "Walking My Baby Back Home," along with favorites like "Honeysuckle Rose" and "You Can Call Me Al." The Dins will be joined tomorrow night by Yale's oldest all-female a cappella group, the New Blue, in what promises to be an evening of humorous skits, good music and audience participation...
...There's a lot we agree about, especially the necessity for saving every dime we can," the governor said...
...time when many Americans are frustrated and out of touch with the Washington elite--which many feel includes legislators and lobbyists, video news jockeys and journalists, talk radio has become the most vigorous medium for free speech, providing a podium and an audience to anyone who has a dime for a phone call. The nation needs muckrakers like Williams and his colleagues across the country to keep asking questions about where the country is headed and how it's getting there...
Brace yourself, Bill, you are in summer White House country now. Weird things happen. Remember Plains, Ga.? "If anyone spent a dime there, that was an improvement over the year before," sniffs Ward. True enough. Plains shot into the limelight with Jimmy Carter and sunk back into the kudzu like Brigadoon. Then there was Hyannis, Mass., which metamorphosed from a decent summer community into the world capital of turquoise John F. Kennedy ashtrays. The place has never recovered from the combination of Kennedy mystique, weak zoning and bad taste...