Word: minting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ATTEEHORO Mass--The president of the mint which produced Connecticut Tusapike tokens plaguing the New York subway system says subtic alterations will soon make the tokens jam in subway turnstiles...
...Roger Williams Mint produced 10 million Connecticut Turnpike tokens which went on sale six weeks ago for 17.5 cents apiece. The tokens soon began appearing in New York subway turnstiles, where tokens are sold fot 75 cents...
...anyone is investing heavily in Connecticut Turnpike tokens with the idea of using them in the New York turnstiles, they should be very careful because they won't be usable there soon," mint president David F. Kilmartin said Tuesday
...works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate prices on bookshop remainder tables after the author's Grendel gained a national reputation. Current worth for a mint copy...
Inside the spa building, in a small windowless room, an uptight, burned-out, more-fat-than-fit East Coast Type A female is submitting to an herbal wrap. A cup of alfalfa-mint tea precedes mummification. She sweats to the faint chimes of "music to relax and meditate by." The East Coast Type A resents being told to relax. The ranch's resident psychotherapist, Richard ("Bud") Murphy, will later tell her, "Many people come here seeking withdrawal from something-food, a bad marriage, personal problems, smoking-but they feel ambivalent and resist change...