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								But that's no reason we can't do a little bit of dime-store psychologizing all on our own, right? Rick Horowitz: Obama: No More Mr. Nice Guy? Rick Horowitz 2011 
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								But that's no reason we can't do a little bit of dime-store psychologizing all on our own, right? Rick Horowitz: Obama: No More Mr. Nice Guy? Rick Horowitz 2011 
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								That was the stuff of made-for-TV movies and dime-store mystery novels. The 7 Glenn Beck 2011 
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								Yet pretending the dime-store trophy we now hold up is what we were all about these past ten years is also like asking us to throw away the whole decade -- and in turn this becomes yet another badge of defeat. Michael Vlahos: Did We Lose the War? Michael Vlahos 2011 
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								In the same dime-store inspirational vein, he italicizes the content of his emails and speeches, as if every word were transcendent. When Latte Lost Its Luster Roger Lowenstein 2011 
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								Today "That Championship Season," which is now being revived on Broadway for the first time, looks like what it is, a quasipolitical cartoon whose smugness stinks like dime-store perfume. Men Dating Themselves Terry Teachout 2011 
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								In this other I have a dime-store bubble mixture— with a few extra ingredients. Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011 
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								The trick in this business, Ms. Tarantino said, is to elevate a product that might feel dime-store to the level of high fashion. The Serious Business of Pretty Pink Things Christina Binkley 2011 
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								An unusually ornate 17-room Fifth Avenue apartment owned since 1920s by the family of Samuel H. Kress , the founder of a dime-store empire, has been sold for $26.75 million. No Dime-Store Price for Kress Home Josh Barbanel 2011 
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								Yet pretending the dime-store trophy we now hold up is what we were all about these past ten years is also like asking us to throw away the whole decade -- and in turn this becomes yet another badge of defeat. Michael Vlahos: Did We Lose the War? Michael Vlahos 2011 
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