Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paisley and Nattress hard at work on the line evaluating a front-wheel-drive, hydrogen-powered, hydraulic-assisted entry from the University of Wisconsin's Stout campus. Even with some donated parts, the exotic power plant modestly housed in a blue Dodge Omni body cost $25,000 in cash. Student Steve Mann insists that the car would be "as cheap as or cheaper" than any current production model to massproduce. Mann is young and tousle-headed. But with poise beyond his years he points out that if society were to switch from petroleum-based fuels to hydrogen, fuel would...
Samtur says that by making the most of coupons she is able to snip 40% to 60% off her food bill every time she shops, for an average savings of $40 or more a week. Moreover, she claims that by taking maximum advantage of refunds, in which manufacturers promise cash rebates to consumers for trying their products, she reaps an additional $1,500 annually...
...million from sales of electricity, water, gas, telephone, and sewage services to some 500 communities in ten states, from Hawaii to Vermont. The company is helped significantly because Rosenthal persuaded the IRS in 1955 to allow it to pay dividends in tax-free Citizens stock instead of cash (only when they sell the stock do the owners pay capital gains taxes). This unique benefit-the IRS soon after forbade it to other firms-allowed Citizens to raise capital without going to market often and paying heavy interest...
...daily meals (called "lab experiments") a blackboard in the dining tent lists "formulas" that specify the menu (PA for potatoes, CA for cake). The food must be consumed with meticulous care to reduce noise. Bo and Peep usually shop for food and supplies personally. They always pay cash, once explaining to cult members, Groll recalls, that we "didn't have any need to wonder" about money...
...Maas should be forgiven his irony. Sicily's best-known export has, of course, become as American as frozen pizza. As Maas has shown in The Valachi Papers and Serpico, Cosa Nostra reaches far below the imperial realms of The Godfather into virtually every working-class neighborhood where cash is short and the Mob's loan sharks cruise...