Word: nickel
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...from the bill, and they will have some Republican support. The mining, says Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, ranking G.O.R member on the House Appropriations Committee, is a "stupid, stupid thing." On the more general subject of aid to the contras, he vows, "They're not going to get a nickel, not a nickel...
...typical. Its flat-rate charge for phone service jumped nearly 30% in Pennsylvania, the lowest monthly rate rising from $9.60 to $12.28. It has begun installing message-unit service in some areas, basing tolls on time and distance of calls. The company increased pay-phone charges from a nickel to 15? in the District of Columbia, and from a dime to 25? in Delaware and Virginia. It increased directory-assistance charges throughout its area, ranging up to 35? in Pennsylvania and Delaware...
Varsity lightweight eights (Biglin Bowl): 1-HARVARD (bow Edd Fleming, 2-Jeff Nickel, 3-Ben Colourn, 4-Greg Williams, 5-Pat Bennell, 6-Paul Natterson, 7-Justin Kemond, stoke James Sheldon cox-Mike Philips), 5:58:2 Dartmouth 5:58:3 MIT 6 11 Junior varsity eights HARVARD (bow John Lawfor 2 Phil Talbert 3 Wally Obersmayer 4 Albert Legar 5 Scott Diugos 6 Trip Switzer 7 Bill Peterson stroke Peter Herbig, cox-Mike Mollerus) 6:11:2 Dartmouth...
...year in the early 1970s for such nontechnical pursuits as acting in the school play, but he did not lose his touch for making money. While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped up 5,000 McGovern-Eagleton campaign buttons for a nickel each just after South Dakota's George McGovern dumped Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton from the Democratic ticket. They later sold the scarce mementos for as much as $25 each...
...ozone and get more rain, which washes chemicals onto the trees. "Most people think of remote mountains as ideal vacation spots that are very clean, but they're not," declares Johnson. Many isolated areas in the mountains of New England have abnormally high levels of copper, zinc, nickel and cadmium. And the Green Mountains of New Hampshire, seemingly pristine, in fact rival big cities when it comes to lead pollution...