Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that all the various characters are intermeshed in a network that stretches across space and time. From Dickens' novels, the reader inferred the existence of an all-encompassing, interdependent organic society, a world where no man lived alone. It was a nice assumption. The horse and buggy and the nickel beer were also nice...
...Premier of Japan is now clearly over. Last week, in the study of his official residence, an embattled but still cheerful Tanaka discussed some of the domestic and international challenges facing his Liberal-Democratic government with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. Excerpts...
Already such corporate giants as General Motors, Gulf Oil, International Nickel, Pepsico and Texaco have adopted variants of the performance-shares idea. At annual meetings this spring, shareholders of such other firms as Aetna Life & Casualty, Continental Telephone Corp., First National City Corp. and R.R. Donnelly & Sons also are being asked to vote their approval to some form of the plan...
...spokesman from the National Council of Churches said that marijuana is a "nickel and dime" affair compared to the dangers of alcoholic beverages...
Last year, Boston's residents and businesses sent $2.2 billion to Washington in taxes, but our direct return will be cut in half--our loss will be $100 million. Our direct return on the federal tax dollar then, will be cut from a dime, to less than a nickel...