Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City's Lower East Side, Burns started putting his act together when he was seven in the Peewee Quartet, a group of kids who sang for small change in neighborhood taverns. By the time he was 14 he had found his main prop-a seven-cent Ricoro cigar. "I'd go into one of those places where they would press your suit while you stood in your underwear. I'd put it on hot-I wouldn't bend my knees until it had cooled off-and walk down the street with the Ricoro...
Instead, the group says the U.S. could cut its energy consumption by 40 per cent by adopting conservation and low technology solar power...
Consequently, one of New England Power Company's main generating units was overloaded, and power output had to be cut back by 75 per cent...
...Holland added that he does not foresee any serious effects in the future. "We've already probably increased the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere by 15 to 20 per cent since 1850 and there's been no immediate effect on the earth's climate," he said...
...Landlords will then be able to notify tenants of a new rent," Stanton said. Most tenants will be paying 9.5 per cent more rent. If special rent increases have been granted to a landlord in the past, the increase may be less, he added...