Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child isn't for the faint of heart. But if you can roll with it, it's great." Case in point: Grove always worked to include the kids in his business travel. But he made the girls write reports on the countries they were visiting: Italy, Spain, England. A nickel a page. "That's how we'd get our spending money," recalls a daughter. "Luckily, my grandparents would kick in a little more." Grove's parents moved to the U.S. in 1965. His father died in 1987; his mother lives in California...
NEWT GINGRICH Freebie to Mother England on Atlantic Richfield's nickel...
...casino recently saved three people with cardiac arrest." For the medical community, better cardiac preparedness could come relatively cheap. Last year Peberdy saw to it that all five buildings at her medical school were provided with defibrillators and teams of nurses trained to use them. The cost: about a nickel per paying patient...
...tailgate-party and hip-flask scene that accompanies athletic events. But increasingly the pressure to drink is coming from bars catering to students, which aggressively promote themselves on school grounds. College newspapers, which get 35% of their advertising revenues from alcohol-related ads, are filled with come-ons for nickel pitchers of beer and "ladies drink free" specials. Bars distribute handbills to students as they walk between classes and put flyers under doors in freshman dorms. On many campuses, bars send shuttle buses to round up students. "There really are establishments that prey on youth," says Frances Lucas-Tauchar, vice...
...deal links two techno-forward cultures run by entrepreneurial boomers. Gates, 41, and Roberts, 37, were seated next to each other at a Seattle restaurant seven weeks ago at a dinner Gates was giving for visiting cable executives. Since it was his nickel, Gates complained about the slow pace at which cable-TV outfits were upgrading their systems to carry Internet traffic. Roberts retorted, "Why don't you invest in the cable industry? It would make a really strong statement...