Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many homeless people, collecting the deposits on empty beverage containers is not a nickel-and-dime affair -- it's a living. Some redeem 400 or more cans each day, enough to pay for a meal and a night in a flophouse. Last week attorneys for the homeless filed a lawsuit in New York, one of nine states that require deposits, alleging that some of the state's largest supermarket chains have been breaking the law to discourage the scavengers...
...reactors and particle accelerators have long been the private domain of physicists. Chemists, on the other hand, were more likely to be studying how to make a better laundry detergent, or so physicists seem to think. It is no surprise, then, that the harshest critics of Pons and his dime-store equipment have been physicists. Retorts Pons: "Chemists are supposed to discover new chemicals. The physicists don't like it when they discover new physicals." In fact, many chemists feel -- with much justification -- that the physicists consider themselves intellectually superior. Says Cheves Walling, a Utah chemist who has developed...
Twelve years ago, Bonnie Garland, a pretty, upper-class Yale student, was murdered. Her estranged boyfriend went up to her bedroom one night and with a hammer cracked her head open "like a watermelon," as he put it. Murders are a dime a dozen in America. But the real story here, the real horror, chronicled in painful detail by Willard Gaylin (in The Killing of Bonnie Garland), was the aftermath: sympathy turned immediately from victim to murderer, a Mexican American recruited to Yale from the Los Angeles barrio. Within five weeks he was free on bail, living with the Christian...
...asteroid is destined to do so eventually. It has happened so many times before, in fact, that the earth's surface would be as pockmarked as the moon's were it not for the cosmetic effects of erosion caused by the oceans and atmosphere. Half-mile asteroids are a dime a dozen in the solar system, and they run into the planet once every 100,000 years, on average. That means the next one could strike in a thousand lifetimes -- or before the end of next week...
Walsh also said last week that the House measure was insufficient and that the City Council would move forward with its resolution "unless we receive every nickel and dime by July...