Word: cent
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...candidates for Undergraduate Council President are already searching for alternative methods. To prevent wealthier candidates from having an unfair advantage, the council gives each ticket $100 and prohibits spending more. For a college of 6,400 undergraduates, a presidential hopeful can devote only about a cent and a half to reach each student. On the other hand, the council places no limit on the number of labor hours that the campaigns can garner from their student supporters...
South Korean operators have also chosen to differentiate download prices, charging one rate for text and another for multimedia content. On 2.5G networks, all the mobile operators take half a cent per packet (which represents 512 bytes) for text but only about one-quarter of a cent per packet for multimedia content. The reason? To make it more attractive for consumers to use the new traffic-intensive multimedia services such as video on demand. Otherwise, they might stick to less traffic-intensive text-based services like e-mail...
Europe +0.84% Asia -0.67% North and Cent. America -1.04% Oceania...
...jingle of coins multiplying at two per cent per annum has given way to the jingle of the singing commercial, And their advertisements, implying that anyone who doesn't turn in his this year's car for a next year's model with all the latest accessories and borrow the difference from them is a frugal old fogy, range from the supplicatory to the coercial...
...small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins. That's where I found "Lewis Boogie," a tune that, in its rollicking rockin' propulsion, fully merits a place next to his two signature hits. It begins as abrupt as wartime reveille: four four-note phrases, each an octave lower than the preceding, on a piano that sounds a little flat in the upper registers. Then JLL races into his vocal. This is a 12-bar blues with a difference: the breaks...