Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans. Everyone, including TIME (July 29), accepted Hughes' account, and the press ran glowing stories about the ship's capabilities. "If all sails smoothly," went one typical newspaper account, "the mystery ship may be at work next year, scooping such metals as titanium, manganese, uranium, copper and nickel up out of the depths to add to the fortune of the world's wealthiest recluse...
...their sexual insecurities. In the newspapers' Mary Worth, two characters are putting off marriage because they are out of work. (Comic-strip art imitates life; marriage rates are tumbling because of unemployment.) In a new song, Hard Times, Arlo Guthrie croons: "I ain't got a nickel to call mine ... We ain't even got a lousy dime." Nobody is cracking any jokes about unemployment, but once again the old line is being heard: "When you're unemployed, it's a recession. When I'm unemployed, it's a depression...
...reduced air pollution. When she tested the gas. she found that pollution actually increased. Later and independently, the Federal Trade Commission charged that some of the F-310 advertising was false. Cartt meanwhile had brought suit on behalf of all Standard's California customers to recover the extra nickel that each gallon of F-310 cost. A federal judge ruled that the suit could not proceed until she notified each of the 700,000 Standard credit-card holders in the state. That would cost her at least $42,000. and Cartt now reports that her efforts to raise...
...NICKEL RIDE...
...performs remains rather unclear. Director Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird, Summer of '42) creates a muffled texture of perennial dusk, and stages some fine set pieces (like a good-humored birthday party that the street citizens give Cooper). But, like Roth, he mistakes obliquity for essence. The Nickel Ride is a film of well-turned surfaces whose terse and moody lines dress up, but do not disguise, a shady frame. This is after all another installment in that sadly ongoing saga of contemporary man fighting to stay alive in a world he helped make but no longer...