Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most powerful penny opponent is Republican Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe, who keeps pushing his Legal Tender Modernization Act. He's very concerned about the coming penny Armageddon. "At some point you'll find a burgeoning business of people melting them down to metal," says Kolbe, "and selling them back to the Mint for more pennies." Kolbe, who advocates rounding to the nearest nickel, argues that parking meters, Laundromats, transit systems and vending machines don't accept pennies. Merchants hate them and won't let you pay for things with a stack of them. They pile up or get thrown away...
...makes it a little more opaque for us on the admissions side, but we fully understand it," said Jim Miller, director of admissions at Brown University. "It's conceivable a student could get a B in gym and get knocked down 40 places in rank. So we're getting more used to it, and probably half our applicants now come from schools that don't have rank. You just have to ascertain, through student profiles and other means, the strength of a schedule and student performance relative to other students...
...glanced over my shoulder at the parade of umbrellas huddled in front of the Capitol, I felt the weight of Rev. Jim Wallis’ sermon from the night before—that we were the foundation for a new social movement that would remind politicians that poverty is a manifestation of a nation’s moral lapse, of its unwillingness to help the poor. This movement would fill a void in the soul of the nation, and provide a home for people who believe that morality should guide policy, but that a “culture of life?...
...large crowd. Many Caribbean islands cater to multiple ship dockings in one day, and local excursions are managed by the ships or taxi services with very little hassle. So, how is this somewhat larger ship going to cause all the possible problems mentioned in your article? Jim Kashishian Madrid The report on freedom of the seas noted that the ship sailed out of Miami and made references to the Statue of Liberty, so I'm concerned that readers might be left with the wrong idea about where the ship was built. The world's biggest cruise ship was built...
...JIM KASHISHIAN...