Word: dimes
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Wallace's slogan was "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties," which is pretty much what Ross Perot said in 1992. And on the issues Perot took up?the budget deficit and NAFTA?he had a point. With Americans angry about the economy and angry at Washington, Perot made NAFTA?which both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton supported?a symbol of the public's discontent. Perot won 19% of the vote, mostly among downscale Republicans and independents who had backed Reagan during the cold war but by then feared Mexico...
...plays into the sick myth of the brilliant serial killer. The evil genius with a sadistic streak, who plays mind games with his victims and the police, has replaced the criminal mastermind of old dime novels. Instead of tying the heroine to the railroad tracks (these days, the train would never arrive), he straps them into Rube Goldberg contraptions that slowly rip their fingernails off and tear their dignity to shreds. We live in a cruel world, but this is one area of criminality where fiction has long outstripped fact. According to the folks at Wikipedia - and those obsessive list...
...Take the dime in your wallet. Now imagine a chip no larger than a fraction of that coin that can detect the faintest traces of thousands of different chemicals, using over 32 different infrared light-emitting lasers...
...first, French culture is thriving in France, and second, it lacks commercial success abroad. So what? The former is a good thing, while the latter isn't bad. Art shouldn't be driven by vanity and money. Proust too was in search of lost time, not of the lost dime. Robert West, INGOLSTADT, GERMANY...
...have my own modest proposals to return air travel to its original upright position. Unlike a snack box or headphones or curbside check-in, they won't cost a dime...