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...husband in a Jimmy Buffett video called Who's the Blonde Stranger? Graham confessed that he had perhaps shown poor judgment. But that wasn't the problem. "They were concerned I hadn't listed any payment on my financial-disclosure form," Graham says. "But Jimmy never paid me a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Take Note of Bob Graham | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...justification for building bigger locks is simple: time is money. Supporters, including farmers and such commodity heavyweights as Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and ConAgra, say the time saved on a trip down the river could generate an extra nickel or dime of profit on every $2 bushel of corn floating down the Mississippi. "I produce about 100,000 bushels of grain a year, and 5[cents] on each one is a pretty good chunk of change that goes straight to my bottom line," says Gregory Guenther of Belleville, Ill. The river, 22 miles from his 1,000-acre farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winfield, Mo.: Who Owns The River? | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...first thought of the merger, Bush laughed and said, "Great minds think alike. At about the same time, Al and I were both saying to ourselves, 'Look, this election may be close. Now, I'm a compassionate conservative, and he's a tough-love bleeding heart. Is there a dime's worth of difference? Well, maybe a dime's, but not a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Announcing a New Mega-Merger: Bush-Gore Inc. | 6/28/2000 | See Source »

Those who support the U.S. having permanent normal trade relations with China are delusional, shortsighted and naive. The agreement may cut Chinese tariffs and serve to open up new markets for American manufacturers and service providers, but inward-looking China will not turn on a dime to meet U.S. criteria for human rights. China will promise the moon but deliver only manufactured products and immigrants to its trading partners. In the short term, North American jobs will be lost when U.S. manufacturers move plants to China, where labor is cheap. The U.S. trade deficit with China will escalate to frightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 12, 2000 | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

With a bit of foresight and 14 years of patience, the College managed to acquire the Hasty Pudding Building this year without paying a dime for the three-story Holyoke Street structure...

Author: By Joyce K.mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Struggling for Space: University Looks To Expand | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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