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...penny thrown in a fountain will make a soft plink, then sink to the bottom and lie there helping to clog the drains, nothing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hope Sprouts Eternal | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard's credit, that phenomenon came mostly from outside, the one area the Crimson's tough defense couldn't clog...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Undefeated Cagers Elude Purple Knights, 66-60 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

James A. Argeros, the Coop's general manager, says the push-carts "clog things up." And he is taking DiGiovanni to court to do something about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Push-Carts Cause Controversy Between Coop and Landlord | 10/13/1984 | See Source »

...main cause of Cairo's air pollution, though, is its traffic jams, which are caused not only by swarms of cars, increasing by 15% a year, but also by the 80,000 animal carts that clog the narrow streets and create their own fumes. Carbon monoxide levels in some areas are three to four times what U.S. experts consider dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And If Mexico City Seems Bad... | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...huge sheaves of banknotes to buy TV sets to take back to their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog the streets have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive woman and her family standing next to a new Toyota. Thanks to an income of more than $18,000 last year, Chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Capitalism in the Making | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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