Word: dimes
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...Move” has a nice pastoral acoustic section which also flows coolly into following track, “Beware Our Nubile Miscreants,” this time through a thick orchestral flourish. But as should be expected at this point in the album, the tone shifts on a dime, turning from Sufjan Stevens to Mika without ever really sinking in. By far the highlight of the album comes when the funk slows down to Marvin Gaye speed on “St. Exquisite’s Confessions.” With a beat that would make for some good...
...nearly four decades later, the aging and dilapidated buildings are about to be given a second life: the affordable housing complex will relocate to land further down Western Avenue in the coming years, giving residents more modern facilities on Harvard’s dime and handing control of the site’s prime real estate to the University...
Three-term Florida Congressman Tom Feeney has not been criminally charged in the Washington corruption scheme that sent super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to federal prison. But the taint of the Republican's 2003 golf trip to Scotland on Abramoff's dime is derailing his re-election campaign...
...recent years, rebel groups in Chad, Sudan, Congo and elsewhere are trading valuable oil and mineral deposits in their regions for arms. Rather than seek the backing of friendly foreign officials - as Dos Santos allegedly did in the mid-'90s - combatants can now bulk up on their own dime. "Each group raises its own funds and then negotiates to buy weapons," says Will Hartley of Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London. "Gone are the days when governments will send weapons and cash into African states...
After confronting the poverty of his state, LaBruzzo, in his esteemed capacity as a policymaker, offered just such a solution. Horrified that welfare recipients should have cell phones and cigarettes on the state’s dime, he is considering a law to pay willing women $1000 to undergo Fallopian tube ligation and effectively promote state-sponsored sterilization of poor women. The law would also include tax incentives for wealthier, more educated couples to have more children. To him, the root of the welfare crisis lies in poor people reproducing faster than those who are presumably more qualified to have...