But these turn out to be not much more than cannonballs mainly, a few badly eroded pieces of eight and an early 19th-century American half-dime.

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My commitment is to recover every single dime the American people are owed.

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We also ask the largest financial firms -- companies saved by tax dollars during the financial crisis -- to repay the American people for every dime that we spent.

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It also contains an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability, so that every American will be able to go online and see where and how we're spending every dime.

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"These are dime-a-dozen lawsuits that are easy to file, " says Ted Frank of the American Enterprise Institute, who predicted the "inevitable free-riding class action" on the Web site Overlawyered.com one day before the first suit was filed in Los Angeles.

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