Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOBODY CAN DENY that great novels are a dime a dozen in Latin America...
...steady stream of students scooped up tastes of Meyers' popcorn from a large bag. They also bought 50-cent bags to take back to their dormitory rooms at a special discount price of a dime. Rock music blared from speakers as a local radio station, WBCN, broadcast live...
WHILE YOU WERE away this summer, Harvard libraries quietly raised their photocopying price from a nickel to a dime. Five cents, they claim, simply was not enough to compensate for the wear and tear that xeroxing causes the University's collection. And since prices haven't been raised since the '60s, it was time for a change...
...which people insert a card with photocopy credit on it into the copier in place of coins--is clearly warranted, especially in light of the price hike. In exchange for the 100 percent increase in cost, users deserve something in return. Why not eliminate the need to drop a dime into the machine before making each copy...
...PRICES going from a nickel to a dime anyway? The libraries do not necessarily need ten cents for each photocopy. They merely need more than a nickel. But as long as we have to insert coins, the seven-cent photocopy is an idea whose time will never come...