Word: minting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most desirable rock albums, often on tape, are available there, says a Muscovite fan who frequents the park, "if you approach the right people. If you can wait. If you can pay." The tariff is high. A Rolling Stones album may go for 80 rubles (about $120). Prices for mint-condition albums range from 50 to 70 rubles ($75 to $105), which makes record buying a gilt-edged hobby. Cassette tapes are cheaper (around 40 rubles), or even less if they have been copied from records, other tapes, or recorded off Voice of America broadcasts...
Equality continues to elude poor Susan B. Anthony. The Government honored the suffragist leader with a $1 coin last summer, and critics have not stopped sneering. "The Edsel of coins," said some. Of the 758 million coins that were minted, only about 270 million have been put into circulation. The rest are piled up in banks and the U.S. Mint...
...only somebody would bring me that mint julep I asked...