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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fairness Issue | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...realm of today's performing arts, energy is an overvalued coin. Its name is invoked to trumpet every gonadal excess from heavy metal to slasher movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Strutting in the Lower Depths | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fairness Issue | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: McPaper Stakes Its Claim | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Verdi with a Jukebox | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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