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...some of this increase, rather than legislating further permanent tax cuts, would serve a double purpose. It would put more spending money into the consumer's pocket, yet still help to preserve the long-run capacity of the Government to raise tax revenue. Washington will shortly need every dime that it can collect to bankroll much-needed social programs...
...really understood all that being a rookie policeman involves, I probably never would have applied in the first place, and wouldn't be in a position to solicit for more recruits like myself. But even if the job turned out to involve a little more than broad smiles and dime-store social work, it has, incidental to everything else, been a top-notch cure for what ailed...
There's truthfulness in our life. We're all tied by a bond of friendship. A friend is the most important thing in life. We're wealthy and we don't have a dime. Just friendship...
...performances when they finally limped onto Broadway. To keep the company going, Scott had spent $70,000 of his own money. When it collapsed in 1962, Scott personally paid off a sizable portion of the original debt. "When we finished," Scott says, "I didn't have a dime. It took a few years to clean up all the debts, but it was done...
...Scott returned in desperation to Stephens hoping to teach again. By that time he was the leading campus undesirable. Not only had he been divorced; it was public knowledge that he had fathered an illegitimate child by another Stephens student. He flew to Washington, D.C., and spent his last dime on a call to his sister Helen. She gave him a place to stay, and her husband gave him a job with his construction firm doing manual labor. Scott managed to stay away from the theater for almost a year...