Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Desert Storm has been a case study in guile, ruthlessness and careful timing. The clash over the Agriculture Ministry is the fifth time the allies have had to cock their guns to ensure compliance with U.N. sanctions; each time in the past Saddam backed down. "He is trying to nickel-and-dime us until he can erode the sanctions and regain his sovereignty," says Phebe Marr of the National Defense University in Washington...
...didn't even have the presence of mind to tell the cheap sumbitch to call back on his own nickel. Perot came on and poor-mouthed, still soundin' like a Chihuahua -- got fired from his job at GM, couldn't get his own company back, and here's me usin' him as an example of some big rich guy; didn't I even read my own newspaper, etc. It was the funniest gotcha anyone ever pulled...
CLINTON: And, you know, on the gas-tax thing, I just don't think that's the only way. I have raised the gas tax. I am not against the gas tax, but a nickel a year for a decade is too much for people who don't live in urban areas and ride mass transit...
...Recycle not only offers such rareties as miniature plastic E.T.s for the bargain-basement price of a nickel, but it demonstrates that recycling can and does work...
...cannot look away from the truth. Magic and Loss, largely inspired by the death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss, but the music, dark and pitiless, is still magic...