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...stood by when they raised the price of stamps twice in three years, despite the fact that the rate increase inevitably occurs just days after I've purchased a new book of stamps, forcing me back to the post office to buy a whole string of those annoying one-cent stamps, which I invariably lose. I put up with it because I know that it's expensive delivering mail to 134 million homes, and as a consumer, I recognize that 34 cents is still a pretty good price...
...athletic commission showed China's determination to break into the sport. The first generation, including Wang's basketball-playing parents, set the ball in motion. Today, 200 million Chinese play hoops and delight in the exploits of Big Shark (Shaquille O'Neal), the Letter Deliverer (Karl Malone) and One Cent (Penny Hardaway). China even began touting its trio of homegrown goliaths?Wang, Yao Ming and Menk Batere?as the Walking Great Wall...
...When the rest of the country's theaters were showing Peter Pan in 1953, eighty cent admission at the Brattle Theatre bought a seat at the German film, Captain from Kopenik...
...bounds. And of course, of course it isn't a good idea to be a blithering idiot and drink yourself into a stupor and end up at UHS, any more than it's a good idea to go skinny-dipping in shark-infested waters or eat those 49-cent McDonalds cheeseburgers until you vomit...
...Marin was capable of putting it to unusual tests. Once, having extracted an advance of $1,200 from his buddy and benefactor to keep himself and his new wife going for a year, the great landscapist turned up after six weeks and told Stieglitz that he had blown every cent of it buying a waterless island in Maine, and that his wife was expecting. The chosen few who got to show at Stieglitz's galleries were not members of a stable but rather part foster children and part co-explorers. "Remember my fight for O'Keeffe and Marin...