At moments like that, the big guy on the dime could fit on a tarnished penny.
Are country economies really better off when activist governments led by activist presidents prop up the losers on the dime of the winners?
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"The Senate has to get off the dime 17 dimes and one nickel to be exact, " said the bill's sponsor, Assemblyman Keith Wright, a Manhattan Democrat.
He was chairman and CEO of First Fidelity Bank, president and chief operating officer of Mellon Bank, vice chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, and non-executive chairman of both The Dime Bank and Riggs National.
Paramount has added back the dime it borrowed from Bemis' bottom line in 1997 and will probably generate more than 10 cents a share in profits in 2000, says Lehman Brothers analyst Joel Tiss.
Indeed, with scientific advances when it comes to birth galloping ahead, is the miracle that is life so sacred that the certifiably crazy can produce children on the dime of taxpayers with reckless abandon?
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This great country, different from mine, requires office employees and employers to dance on the dime and keep their fingers on the dial, while snapping to the beat of business decisions on the fly.
But weatherizing homes and building roads on the government dime can only do so much to fire up the world's largest economy.
The legislature orders Texas universities on the public dime to charge no tuition to those qualified.
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You see the stepping up of gouging of communities on the taxpayer dime, people kicked out of low-income housing, etc.
The government never demanded the rights to all future patents and innovation technology which are grown on the public dime.
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The for-profit college business model is essentially built on these lines: diploma mills which exist solely on the government dime and yet are almost entirely unregulated.
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Bankers and executives on Wall Street need to realize that enriching themselves on the taxpayers' dime is inexcusable, that the days of outsized rewards and reckless speculation that puts us all at risk have to be over.
Approvals come and go, and can change on the turn of a dime: ask the members of the Rembrandt Research Project.
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There are sufficient Trust Fund bonds to make up the annual deficits and pay all benefits in full and on time for the next 25 years, and there are sufficient federal revenues to redeem the bonds without borrowing another dime from the public.
And, as the President has insisted from the beginning, the legislation does not add a dime to the deficit.
The county has never received a dime from the Heat from ADNCF.
"God forbid we can spend billions on the project and not give the property owners a dime, " said the Karans' attorney, Peter Wegener.
Prize chump in the case of Libya this past fortnight has been Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful who demanded consistency, called for intervention and turned on a dime the instant Mr Obama answered.
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And I made clear from day one that I would not sign a health insurance reform bill if it raised the deficit by one dime -- and neither the House, nor the Senate bill does.
On Tuesday, the President will travel to Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, to deliver remarks urging Congress to pass the American Jobs Act now to keep teachers in the classroom, rebuild our schools across the nation, and put money in the pockets of working Americans, while not adding a dime to the deficit.
As if they can keep inflation to single digits because they can just fine tune the economy on dime.
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My commitment is to recover every single dime the American people are owed.
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Because you have to remember, the stimulus money, whether you take it or not, does not save the taxpayers one dime.
The pipeline "is primed to give our economy a shot in the arm and make energy more affordable -- and it won't cost the taxpayers a dime, " he argued.
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Those policies began in 1995 with President Clinton and his Executive Branch, regulatory, National Home Ownership Strategy, which was to sold as a program to expand home ownership without costing the taxpayers a dime.
The current crop of Kindle Fire HD tablets are prices such that Amazon is hardly making a dime off the base models.
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Last month, Democrats in the Senate put forward a plan that would have kept these rates in place without adding a dime to the deficit.
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The retail business is a dime a dozen proposition with lots of options for the fickle consumer.
Great ideas (using the term loosely) come a dime a dozen which is reflected in the thousands of bills introduced each year by members of Congress, with less than single digit percentages of them becoming law.
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