Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mixes rather extensively into local and particular issues, details of staffing state agencies, rentals of property, local water supplies and town dumps, etc. One reason for this is that, unlike most other states except Hawaii and Indiana, the capital is in the state's largest city. It costs a dime to see the legislature in action. Perhaps it is in consequence of this mixing into many detailed matters that it does not deal very effectively with general issues. There are some notable successes, like no-fault auto insurance and community mental health programs, and some notable failures, like mass transportation...
Nixon's lung clot was evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot...
Serpico, last year's movie of an honest cop in New York, is back in the Square for a return visit. Cops'n robbers flicks have been a dime a dozen lately, but Serpico oontinues to stand out as one of the best; its strong action plot combines with surprising subtlety of character to make it a movie well worth seeing again...
After getting a favorable resporise, he published the first issue of Overdrive in September 1961. Twenty-five hundred copies were mailed out free to truck stops around the country; the owners were told to sell them for a dime, keep the proceeds, and reorder. By December of that year Parkhurst ran an edition...
...enough to make an antihistamine spray seem like a good idea to clear smashed sinuses. Duck Soup is buried in the little jungle of specialty shops on Boylston St., but it's well worth the trouble to find it. And as long as the coffee is only a dime a cup, the prices will be hard to beat...