Word: nickeled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nickel saved is a nickel earned...
...cannot or will not alter their car-driving habits, suggesting that the cost of gasoline will not, alone, much reduce consumption. "My driving is out of necessity," says Diana Brown, a Portland, Ore., bookkeeper and secretary. "My reasons aren't going to change just because it costs me a nickel a gallon more to get there...
...hopeful that the heads of the front-line states-Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia-can persuade Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe of the anti-Smith Patriotic Front to attend the new conference. Last week Owen discussed his views on Rhodesia with TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. Excerpts...
...rickety hot plate sits on the counter. It is the mark of an asceticism that Ted Hesburgh seems to impose on himself-almost as though he felt a need to reassure himself that he still is a priest. "After all these years, 1 haven't got a nickel in the world," he says, "and I like that...
Another set of calculations would take effect in 1981, when many forecasters expect gasoline consumption, which now runs at roughly 294 million gallons a day, to start declining. Then the tax would be raised another nickel or maybe even a dime for every year in which gas usage failed to drop at least 2% from the base period. The tax would reach its maximum in 1985 and not increase after that. Says White House Aide Stuart Eizenstat: "We don't want to make the level of consumption so unrealistically unachievable that the tax automatically will go into effect each...