Word: coins
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...vending machines don't accept pennies. Merchants hate them and won't let you pay for things with a stack of them. They pile up or get thrown away to such an extent that the Mint made 8 billion new ones last year--far more than any other coin--at a cost of roughly $100 million--which is like a penny to the government...
Americans for Common Cents (also known as Mark Weller) says polls show that two-thirds of Americans are loath to let pennies go. Rounding to the nickel, Weller insists, would be manipulated by merchants to screw the consumer. Playing to our patriotism, he cites the coin's tradition. Playing to our guilt, he says penny drives bring charities millions. And playing to our fears, Weller says the penny is a psychological hedge against inflation, a consideration the European Union factored in when it decided to make a one-cent euro coin (though several countries have since effectively banished...
...truth is that some of these factors actually matter, and some do not. Every wedding is haunted by that axiom, "Half of all marriages end in divorce." But it's not a random coin flip. At the time of a couple's wedding, there are factors already present that can raise the odds of divorce to as high as 70%, or lower it to nearly...
...Bottom line, the weddings you attend this summer are likely to have much better odds of lasting than a coin flip. That's something to relish, when the champagne has run dry and the band covers Kool & The Gang and one of the bridesmaids has run off in tears...
...Bush Administration has been singularly inept at making the small-bore calibrations necessary to fight the Iraqi insurgency-and so a political opportunity exists for Democrats to support something specific and useful in Iraq. They could call on the President to make coin-and support for operations like Forward Together-the U.S. military's highest priority. "It would make a great deal of sense for us to do that," says Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a West Point graduate and leading Democratic expert on military affairs. "This Administration has never embraced real solutions to practical problems on the ground...