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I hoped, by now, we'd end what Barbara Ehrenreich ten years ago called the "nickel-and-diming" of America.
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Whether that kind of nickel-and-diming will be necessary to appease deficit hawks post-election remains to be seen.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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If you feel banks are nickel-and-diming you these days, you'd be right.
Maybe We'll Charge an Extra Fee to Read This Rachel Louise Ensign 2011
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This result ultimately comes from nickel-and-diming scripts as effects and action sequences, rather than as character arcs and stories.
Joe Johnston Talks About Making the Wolfman: Indecision is a Killer | /Film 2010
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You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget.
Obama Open-Mic Slip: President Reveals Details On Budget Deal Talks (AUDIO) 2011
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Whether that kind of nickel-and-diming will be necessary to appease deficit hawks post-election remains to be seen.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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You can use the anti-tax monomania of the Conservative Movementarians against them by nickel-and-diming them with fees, levies, and so on.
Matthew Yglesias » People Support Mandatory Carbon Emission Reduction Fee; Hate Carbon Tax 2010
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Whether that kind of nickel-and-diming will be necessary to appease deficit hawks post-election remains to be seen.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Instead of nickel-and-diming the program with endless arguments about what should or shouldn't be paid for, and what is or isn't junk food, let's scrap it altogether and build it fresh.
Tamar Haspel: Food Stamps: Extreme Makeover Tamar Haspel 2012
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Whether that kind of nickel-and-diming will be necessary to appease deficit hawks post-election remains to be seen.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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