Word: coins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coin-operated, pay-as-you-go system in the Houses--whereby students frantically stick quarters into machines every 15 minutes--is, simply put, a pain in the neck and uneconomical. Students last year avoided the coin-ups in droves. Some kind of time-sharing or chit system makes a lot more sense...
...coin-operated, pay-as-you-go system in the Houses--whereby students frantically stick quarters into machines every 15 minutes--is, simply put, a pain in the neck and uneconomical. Students last year avoided the coin-ops in droves. Some kind of time-sharing or chit system makes a lot more sense...
...losses this year could be as much as $100 million. These deficits are believed to be the biggest ever sustained by a newspaper. To meet circulation targets, and to ensure advertisers of a stable, identifiable readership, USA Today is shifting from selling primarily at newsstands and through its ubiquitous coin-operated boxes to much more expensive home and office delivery. The costs will be somewhat offset by a planned increase in the per copy price...
...where Rigoletto has secreted his daughter, Gilda, and where she is wooed by the Duke, who sports a high school warmup jacket. The finale is set in a seedy, Hopperesque waterfront dive. When the Duke sings his famous La donna e mobile aria, in English, he first pops a coin in a jukebox that stands beneath a poster for From Here to Eternity...
...hungry Finance Minister Jacques Delors swoops down from a helicopter to collect the franc used in the coin toss of a soccer match. Intent on projecting French military power abroad. Defense Minister Charles Hernu leads an attack against the tiny principality of Monaco: "Ack-ack-ack!" President Francois Mitterrand interrupts his compulsive globetrotting for a rare visit to Paris and, shuddering at what he finds, hightails away again...