Word: nickeled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week of a course. But today federal legislation has dramatically altered the manner in which Harvard constructs its facilities. Reardon has tried to run his office as a model of compliance, and the nickname "Cliffie" isn't heard too often around 60 Boylston St. I wish I had a nickel for every freshman in the fall of '75 who would have snickered at even the mention of a women's ice hockey Beanpot or an Ivy championship women's soccer team...
Church's committee last week unanimously approved the compromise and both the full Senate and House are expected to approve it before March 1. But there remains a problem: South Carolina's Democrat Ernest F. Rollings, whose Senate Appropriations Subcommittee has refused to approve one nickel of the $2 million that the Administration has requested to operate its American Institute in Taipei...
...Lewis may strike it rich with his latest gourmet grotesquerie: lollipops flavored with jalapeño peppers. So far, he has sold 5 million of them, at a nickel a pop. Oilman J.W. Bowen of Odessa, Texas, gave away 4,000 of the suckers at a convention. "It was a gimmick that really worked," says Bowen. Chevron Chemical Co. has ordered 1 million, with advertising slogans printed on the wrappers. Lewis already has plans to expand-into jalapeño ice cream this spring...
Penders also claims he was more pressured at Columbia--at least in terms of contract negotiations--than he is at Fordham. "Columbia knew for three weeks that Fordham was going to talk to me, but they never offered me a nickel more and never discussed improving the program. There's no animosity, but Columbia's whole attitude is--thank you, you've done a good job, and goodbye," he says...
...amounts of petroleum, but up to now the cost of extracting it has not been justified by the price. Some of the Sisters have moved heavily into metals, a field in which their geologists have considerable expertise. Shell produced and sold $1.2 billion worth of aluminum, copper, zinc and nickel last year, enough to rank it among the top 100 firms on the FORTUNE 500 index even...