Word: deposited
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Finally, there is a proposed law to ban flip-top cans and place a five-cent deposit on most soda and beer cans and bottles. Notwithstanding the aggressive advertising campaign the container interests have waged against the bill, using what amounts to scare tactics, it would be a significant step toward reducing the litter of metal and glass that is beginning to blanket the landscape...
...flora and fauna of Uruguay. Szell has kept snug on fees he collected from Jews in concentration camps. To help them escape the gas ovens, he first accepted gold-often fillings from teeth, which he obligingly pulled himself-then diamonds. The diamonds are stashed in a Manhattan safe-deposit box, watched over by Szell's brother, who, as the movie begins, is incinerated in an auto accident. Since Szell understandably does not trust any of his couriers, he must now come to the U.S. and get the diamonds himself. The couriers are tough, well-tailored guys like Scylla...
...took an order from people who didn't have any money, either because I forgot to ask or they didn't tell me, or both. If I found out at the time (usually when they said that they could not, rather than chose not, to put down a deposit), I tore up the order. This is what the company says to do. If I didn't find out then, I found out at the end of the summer when I tried to deliver that erroneous order. The people had no money then, either. So they neither got nor paid...
Shoppers also have at their disposal 32 restaurants, two movie theaters and a rooftop playground where they can deposit their children. On the fourth floor, Mitsukoshi sells life insurance and $600 package funerals that come complete with a graveside service conducted by a Buddhist monk...
...drop will cost it at least $200 million in potential export earnings this year, worsening an already serious balance of payments deficit (running at about $1.9 billion on current account this year). Last week South Africa moved to cut imports; beginning Aug. 2, the government will require importers to deposit 20% of the price of certain foreign goods with the treasury for six months, at no interest. The unemployment rate among the nation's black workers has already hit 20%; layoffs at the gold mines-which for the moment are maintaining employment-would make it even worse. The joblessness...