Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centavo became a victim of Brazil's roaring inflation, and last week the government finally declared it extinct. So is the one-cruzeiro note (worth 100 centavos), which cost four cruzeiros to print. From now on, cruzeiros up to the 500 denomination (value: 33?) will be issued as coins. As for the centavo, it immediately became worth more dead than alive. Last week an early ten-centavo piece was fetching 500 cruzeiros from coin collectors...
...future, Simon Ramo, vice chairman of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., which is paid to think such thoughts, recently offered a vision of shopping as it may be in the next few decades. "Financial and accounting operations will be revolutionized by electronic information networks. Personal checks, and even currency and coin, will be delegated to a few rural areas or museums. When you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb print in front of the little machine will identify you, subtract from your account and put it into the seller's account, all through electrical signals...
Gallery of Modern Art, which will not show any. Some critics already are throwing their weight behind op in dubious battle with pop. Actually, they both share an everyman's land. If anything, they are opposite sides of the same coin, gambled on what art can become...
...from home these days without running into a squat, silent (except for a few rumbles) salesman who has become an unbelievable success by indulging its customers' penchant for convenience, impulse buying and gadgetry. The salesman is the ubiquitous vending machine, before which Americans stoop, bow and jingle coins as if it were a roadside shrine. The machines usually come through, too, and with less fist-pounding than ever before. Some 4,500,000 of them-or one for every 43 Americans -now dispense everything from gum to gardenias to greeting cards at the drop of a coin...
Though fully a year ahead of its competitors, Convair lost out to North American last August in the Pentagon sweepstakes for a counterinsurgency (COIN) aircraft, but the company chose to put the finishing touches (at a cost of $2,000,000) on the plane anyway. And the military was plainly impressed by the Charger-its promised performance, low $250,000 price tag and immediate availability. But even if the Defense Department never orders a single plane, Convair sees a civilian market for the plane as a bush carrier and fire fighter. Whatever comes of it, its debut marks a return...