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These days, everyone's looking for a way to ease the pain of the pump: the national average cost of a gallon is up to $1.66, just a nickel less than the all-time high, and prices have soared past $3 a gallon in some parts of the country. And many motorists worry that war in Iraq could bring a further spike in the cost of filling...
...illest rhymes that I possibly could,” he says. “For example, I was bagging change the other night, and while I was walking to the bank to get more penny papers, I thought of ‘My pickle pole was harder than a nickel roll...
Airline customers are getting used to being charged extra for everything from paper tickets to onboard meals. But now the nickel-and-diming is reaching the last bastion of airline freebies: frequent-flyer flights...
Sell a buck. Save a buck. Repeat. It's that cycle of high-powered logistics engineering and nickel-squeezing huckstering that remains retailing's most potent weapon. UBS's Kristiansen sees no reason why Wal-Mart, which has trounced the Dow over the past five years, will not sustain 15% earnings growth...
...table: Bet a dollar on red, if you lose bet two dollars on red, if you lose again bet four dollars on red, and so on and so on. When the board finally comes up red, you win a dollar. He gave the dollar to his girlfriend in 20 nickels, who lost 19 of them at the slots before winning the jackpot of $8 on the very last nickel. Eight dollars was, coincidentally, exactly the price of a marriage license in Nevada—and the couple were married the next day. “My life could have been...