Word: dimes
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...would not be wrong to suggest there are a lot of reasons why we shouldn’t pay these swashbucklers their ransom money. Would that there was a way to dispense with the problem more surgically and without having to spend a dime. But alas, this is a potentially explosive global situation, the sixties are over, and sometimes you just have to throw caution to the wind and open your wallet—wide...
...minutes and looks for any damage or abnormality. The third is 10 minutes long and taken at maximum resolution. It's the money shot. Giedd watches as Anthony's brain appears in cross section on a computer screen. The machine scans 124 slices, each as thin as a dime. It will take 20 hours of computer time to process the images, but the analysis is done by humans, says Giedd. "The human brain is still the best at pattern recognition," he marvels...
...Artists, however, don't ordinarily get a dime from auction sales of their work. The money goes to the sellers and the auction house. But where is the rule that an artist can't sell his own work at auction? And it was always likely that Hirst would be the first artist to do that. He has the production capacity to supply a big sale, the name recognition, and a relationship with Sotheby's that began four years ago with a London auction of just about everything that wasn't nailed to the floor at Pharmacy, a celebrity-magnet restaurant...
...Tell her: "Let me see you. I'm not afraid." Assure the souls on the other side that you can handle a sign, that you're not afraid. And they will show it to you. It will happen when they want; you can't call them up on a dime. I tell people, you can have communication if you want to. But make sure you're prepared for whatever it is they show...
Other top terraces are right where you think they'd be. In the hilltop neighborhood of Montmartre, breathtaking vistas of the Paris cityscape are a dime a dozen. But the panorama from the rooftop terrace of Le Diapason restaurant at Hotel Terrass (12 Rue Joseph-de-Maistre) is even more glorious than most. Then there's the tearoom at the Musée de la Vie Romantique (16 Rue Chaptal), with its enchanting patio sweetened by the smell of wisteria, lilacs and hollyhocks...