Word: coin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of hard cash will impact many other facets of daily life besides begging in public places. Wishing wells won't glisten with scores of pennies, wallets will grow slimmer and no longer will people experience the momentary pleasure of finding a coin on the ground. But panhandling is the facet that deserves the attention of all levels of government before money inevitably becomes a completely electronic entity...
...Which is why the Clinton Administration seems to be asking for trouble with its handling of a New Jersey case that involves a 1989 faculty layoff at Piscataway High School. The choice came down to two equally qualified teachers who had equal seniority. Ordinarily, that would have meant a coin toss to decide the loser. Instead the school board dismissed one of them, Sharon Taxman, who is white, arguing that keeping the other, who is black, was essential to diversity--not so much on the staff as a whole, which was 10% black, but just among the business teachers...
...this whimsical hobbling of normal syntax? In a Postscript, our author accounts for his mission: "Offhand, with hindsight, I can think of many factors bubbling about in my brain, but I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could...
...hotel, he telexed a U.S. intelligence officer in Bangkok that he had found a ``very beautiful bird with many beautiful feathers,'' code words signaling he had the index. Schweitzer made two copies of the original tape. He wound one into a tight spool the size of a coin and inserted it into a slit cut into his sneakers; he transferred the other onto an audio cassette and slipped it into his Walkman. Inspectors at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport did not discover either tape before Schweitzer boarded a flight to Bangkok. The operation, code named ``Swamp Ranger,'' was a success...
Prison looms for rare-coin tycoon and sports-team king...