Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walsh also said last week that the House measure was insufficient and that the City Council would move forward with its resolution "unless we receive every nickel and dime by July...
Some experts believe local governments should hike cash refunds to people who return disposable items. Said Nicholas Robinson, who teaches environmental law at Pace University School of Law: "If we could persuade legislatures to increase the recycling price for a bottle from, say, a nickel to maybe a quarter or 50 cents, then that bottle would be a very valuable commodity...
...master control switch is turned to start, and the gates that let water into the turbine are opened. The generator begins to turn, slowly at first, then quickly builds to its 300 r.p.m. speed. A high-pitched hum fills the building, but the generator is so steady a nickel can be balanced on edge on its housing...
...thought and high ideals. "I have never given a red cent to a panhandler, and I never will," declares Businessman Wade Lewis, 47, of Greenville, N.C. "I won't give anybody anything, but I will help somebody go through a trash can to pull out cans and claim the nickel deposit. People need to know that they have to work to get what they need...
They were the waterborne roadsters of the jazz age, built of mahogany, bedecked with nickel-silver fittings, powered by rumbling six-cylinder engines and capable of slicing nose-down through the chop at a brisk 40 m.p.h. But during the late 1950s and '60s, the arrival of lighter, carefree fiber-glass hulls persuaded many boat buyers that the rot-prone wooden models were a thing of the past. Gary Scherb, who spent his summers back then working in the boatyards on Lake Hopatcong, N.J., sadly recalls the time when one of his bosses ordered 40 of the wooden craft sawed...