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  • More photos and interactive graphics Interactive: Track the Latest Libya Events It is true that in the early 1990s, during the run-up to the first Persian Gulf war that drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait, then-Secretary of State James Baker flew around allied capitals seeking contributions to help with war costs, a journey reporters dubbed the tin-cup tour.

    Austerity Guides U.S. Strategy Gerald F. Seib 2011

  • Mr. Whitacre's bailout payback ploy is a desperate attempt to win back the car-buying public deeply disgusted by the spectacle of GM rattling its tin-cup before Uncle Sam.

    Still Government Motors 2010

  • "There is going to be this tin-cup mentality for [the counterterrorism unit] until they're formally, constitutionally recognized as part of the Iraqi system," he said.

    Extremist groups ‘very much alive' in Iraq, U.S. Special Forces official says 2010

  • Mr. Whitacre's bailout payback ploy is a desperate attempt to win back the car-buying public deeply disgusted by the spectacle of GM rattling its tin-cup before Uncle Sam.

    Still Government Motors 2010

  • A frequently misunderstood aspect of nonprofits is the idea that fundraising is somehow a tin-cup substitute for a smart business plan.

    Seeking fundraising help from the pros: Where ProPublica is turning » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

  • While the country writhes in economic crisis, the corporate lineup for bailouts takes on the tin-cup look of a 1930s bread line, and the housing and equities markets swoon on, the State of Missouri continues to perpetuate a monstrous act of post-election fiscal irresponsibility.

    The 2008 Election: Politics and Power Pressman, Matt 2008

  • While the country writhes in economic crisis, the corporate lineup for bailouts takes on the tin-cup look of a 1930s bread line, and the housing and equities markets swoon on, the State of Missouri continues to perpetuate a monstrous act of post-election fiscal irresponsibility.

    Missouri Needs to Show Us the Money: William Prochnau Prochnau, William 2008

  • Struggling schools can do only so much on a tin-cup budget.

    Dan Brown: Senator Kennedy, No Child Left Behind, and the Dropout Crisis 2008

  • Ask Arnold Schwarzenegger, the tin-cup terminator.

    California's Dilemma 2008

  • Kenny filled a battered tin-cup with something he had to sniff for purposes of identity, unearthed a number of brushes and defiantly polished a palette with a wad of cheesecloth.

    Kenny Leona Dalrymple

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